Being on the other side of the international dateline, the Moscow-based team at Toonbox Animation Studio will beat most of to the New Year. As they dive into 2010, they leave behind this animated short celebrating the transition. I believe it plays off the Chinese calendar – we’re leaving the year of the ox and heading into the year of the tiger. Happy New Year!

The December competition over at the 11 Second Club is winding down here in a few hours, and I spotted a strong, Flash-animated submission from Chris O’Hara. He’s an animator at Dublin-based Boulder Media and he calls this piece God, the devil and an xbox.

As promised in May of this year, Paco Sordo has delivered another episode of his Flash-animated project. Inmóvil (Motionless) was created for the website damealgo.es and he had some help on the animation front fom Postoma Estudio. The characters speak in Spanish, and if you don’t, the story is rather easy to follow.

The this new Fuggy Fuggy episode, our hero solves problems the same way I do – he eats his way to victory. Here’s Balance & Lunch, the latest Brothers McLeod creation.

I’m just back from a week off, and a few new Flash-animated holiday shorts snuck in while I was chugging egg nog.

Ben Lane’s animated Christmas card:

And here’s Aaron Stewart’s VH1 holiday parody short that he created with Hornet Inc.

SuperNews! – Santa Saves Christmas (also – watch the entire episode, The Christmas Bailout, over at YouTube)