Every holiday season, I always seems to overlook a few of the animated gems that emerge on the web. This year is no different.

This first holiday card takes place in the Pipsquakz world, which is a new 3D interactive world from Vergence Entertainment. Not all things on Pipsquakz Island are brought to life in 3D – like this Flash-animated Hanukkah short from Tim Sisco titled Pipsquakz Driedel.

Here’s a Christmas-themed Pipsquakz short that was created by Steve Garett in Anime Studio Pro.

Also check out Amy Winfrey’s (Making Fiends) new series Squid and Frog, which debuted with a Flash and puppet animated episode – Squid and Frog’s Buttery Holiday Special. It’s a musical episode, about butter…. and commerce. Whu?

We’re a little late getting this holiday present under the tree, but it’s the thought that counts, right? Here’s the Flash-animated Christmas Message from Mukpuddy’s Sparkle Friends.

The clever fellas at Australia’s Bogan Entertainment Solutions have released their new holiday short titled Miracola, a tongue-in-cheek tale of Christmas commercialism.

An amazing 57 million people have already Elfed Themselves over at elfyourself.com, which Office Max had powered by the gang at JibJab this year.

JibJab also uploaded this Christmas video to YouTube yesterday for your viewing pleasure:

Over at Lineboil.com, we already kicked off the holiday season with the Top 10 Christmas Animations, so it’s time we get our act together here at CHF. We present to you the first big batch of Flash-animated holiday fun. If you haven’t submitted yours yet – get crackin!

First, the Happy Tree Friends remind us that no celebration is safe when Lumpy the moose in the kitchen. This episode is titled Kitchen Kringle.

Trevor Van Meter (Crappy Cat) created this “monstrous” Seasonal Short along with 4realdough.

Joe Cartoon redefines “Ho ho ho” in his holiday short titled Santa Hoe!

The Brothers McLeod unveiled this short holiday music video for NellerDavies.com.

Joe Corrao shares his holiday with the Lil’ Ratskulz over at his 4eyedaniamtion.com site. You can also see his teaser for that project here.

And Plexipixel created a game based on their 2007 Flash animated holiday card. It’s caled Twilight Pixie Glide.

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Mark Gervais (Hallowindow), passed me this link for an interactive holiday treat.