Today, I’m putting my final 3 holiday cards in the mail, so thereby it’s still “Christmastime.” I stumbled onto Dave Pryor’s Flash-animated film, which he produced a few years back, but has only arrived online this season. It’s titled Alien For Christmas, and it’s set to Fountains of Wayne ’s song I Want An Alien For Christmas.

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)

Our yearly Flash-animated holiday card round-up revealed another bumper crop in 2009. Happy holidays everyone and here’s to more jobs, more shorts and more Flash animation in 2010!

Happy Tree Friends – Strain Kringle

Joseph Troy’s Holiday Short

JibJab – You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 30 Second Bunnies Theatre

Mukpuddy’s Christmas Message

Animax – Not a Creature Was Stirring

The Brothers McLeod – Two Hats Christmas Message

Here’s a sleigh full of holiday animation from David Ferguson, the Scottish animator. The Flash-animated short, titled Santa’s netbook-internet-laptop, appears to be a promotion for the website dearscotland.com.

So we all know Santa gives gifts, but in this Flash-animated short we learn that Santa was born with a natural gift that makes Mrs. Claus very happy. It’s titled Reindeer STD, and it was animated by Mike Parker for CollegeHumor.com.