The Magical Platypus International team have forced a small village of Christmas elves to work 18 days on this new animated holiday short. It’s the follow-up to last month’s GUNDARR: Chapter 57, and A Very Gundarr Christmas was created by Ted Wilson, David Weibe, Corey Mcdaniel, Tony Osman and Wayne Salter. Merry Glingnarr to everyone!

A new episode of the wildly popular Simon’s Cat series has arrived, packed with Christmas decorations. As always, Simon Tofield has animated traditionally in Flash, wrapping the short with plenty of mischievous cat behavior. This episode is titled Santa Claws.

The merry folks at Manchester-based Kilogramme have revealed their ghoul-filled 2010 Christmas card. It was designed, animated and directed by Craig Knowles and David Ridges, who used a combination of Flash, After Effects and 3D Studio Max.

Six Point Harness recently produced these a few Flash-animated promo pieces for Disney’s Prep and Landing – Operation Secret Santa, which is the sequel to last year’s award-winning holiday special.

I’m helping out a friend who is searching for a private Flash-animation tutor. Details below:

• Working with 2 grade-school children in the Santa Barbera area
• Looking for animator who enjoys teaching and working with children
• Objective is to walk kids through an animated short from beginning to end, introducing the kids to the creative and technical process of animation
• Dates: December 27th to December 30th
• 6 to 8 hour days
• $400 per day
• A hotel room in the area will be provided if needed

REQUIREMENTS

• must be able to supply Cintiq tablet for the lessons
• must provide reasonably good microphone for voice recording
• must have audio editing software and abilily to see a short film from beginning to end
• must provide own transportation to Santa Barbera

If interested, please forward your resume and animation reel/portfolio to:
tutor [[at]] coldhardflash.com