I blame Steph.

Not much to say beyond that, really. Just a simple still frame animation with no sound. The props are all Christmas decorations - a north pole village I painted, a birdhouse (made by Steph), a dancing snowman (thanks, Steve!), a mini tree and the magic pooping reindeer. The ground is a black polar fleece jacket.

Most of my stuff is pretty pristine, so I wanted to make this one a little more raw. That is why the hand is still in there. No, really.

The Mark Trail lead-in appeared on the original greeting and seemed the proper introduction. The nose-butting thing is just something that always makes me laugh when dogs do it on tv.

He's just sleeping. With his eyes open. Of course he's not dead! He just counts to ten and gets up, ready to go again.

Everytime someone asks that, the deer just roll their eyes. I take that as a "no."

Nobody knows. He just stands on top of the house intoning, "Go south, young man..." and then he laughs and laughs. I'm not sure it's all that funny.

Everything was shot with a Sony Digital 8 camera, imported via iMovie, cleaned up in Graphic Converter, and composed in Flash.

We did it all in one take. The deer was great. Special thanks go out to craft services for keeping the beans fresh under the hot lights.