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The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #11
Directed by Bill Melendez, this is the 1974 Emmy Award-winning special Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause. Melendez’s years of …
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The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #10
Celebrating Christmas old-school Chipmunk style…
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #9.5
I can’t help it, I’m in the holiday spirit, so here’s another one for today: the Firehouse Five Plus Two, led by Disney director and …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #9
Today’s entry from the UK is more curio than classic: the 1959 Halas and Batchelor cartoon The Christmas Visitor, directed by John Halas, …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #8
Der Schneemann (The Snowman) is a delightful 1943 animated short directed and animated by Hans Fischerkoesen in Nazi Germany. …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #7
We’re sticking around in the Thirties today for the Van Beuren short Pals (aka Christmas Night) starring Soglow’s The Little King. A …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #6
We’re looking back all the way to 1932 today to see Santa’s Workshop, a Disney “Silly Symphony” directed by Wilfred Jackson. It’s …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #5
The holidays get the ‘cartoon modern’ treatment in this rare 1954 version of Frosty the Snowman directed by Bobe Cannon at UPA.
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #4
An irreverent take on the holidays by Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam. This piece originally aired in 1968 on the TV series Do Not …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #3
A 1966 holiday interstitial that aired on CBS. Directed and designed by R.O. Blechman. Animated by Ed Smith Willis Pyle. (Thanks, …
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #2
An excerpt from The Story of Christmas, a 1963 NBC special with artwork created by Sleeping Beauty art director Eyvind Earle.
The Twelve Animated Days of Christmas, #1
The “twelve days of Christmas” technically begin after Christmas Day, but we’re starting them early. Every day between now and Christmas, …
Nickelodeon’s Christmas Gift to NYC Animators
(photo from Paint Monster blog) The holidays just got a little less jolly for NY animation artists. I’m hearing reports that among the …
Hallmark’s Cartoon Christmas
Holiday time is coming and that can only mean one thing: Hallmark is once again selling new Christmas ornaments based on classic cartoon …
The Making of Timmy’s Christmas
Mike Nassar has written a super-detailed blog post documenting every step of how he and a few other artists produced Timmy’s Christmas, a …
Bizarro Christmas
Today’s Bizarro by Dan Piraro.
Christmas Nerds
Three nerds turn a nativity scene into a roleplaying battleground. Matt Burnett and Ben Levin spent a year animating this …
Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Calling all cartoon historians! Animator Darrell Van Citters is researching and writing a book about the classic UPA TV special Mr. …
Postmodern Times by Joao Amorim
Postmodern Times is a new series of short animated films presenting “ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and …
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