This was a piece done for Sherman Gill, for the Secret Santa activity at Pixelation. He stated:

"I like Sven Ruthner, hyenas, jellyfish, bad horror movies, pink, orange, cacti, pretty much any weird creature, and of course Jad  COME HITHER AND DITHER, DARLING!  "

   It's a bit fast, but if you look closely, you'll see a magic green bean escape the fire, bouncing out of the present initially, which is what grows into the cactus, and the other things Sherman asked for.

   So in the piece, I included a pink and orange gift. The orange blob is supposed to be Jad's avatar(as he liked Jad), the pink thing is the floating Jelly fish(kinda Spongebob style if you ask me), the little green guy is Ptoing's Pear-head character(don't quite know his name, but I thought he was always endearing...thought Sherman might catch that...you can always go to Ptoings online gallery, and search through it...this character's in there several times...ie, it's what Sherman asked for in his SS; I'm not stroking egos, just a little fyi). And of course the Hyena chasing away the characters...

    This is just over about 100 frames(the original was around 95 frames)...was torture trying to incorporate all these objects together into a scene...it's amazing how 1 weeks worth of animation, only equals about 30-40 seconds of time...animators truly are masochists. : )

Merry Christmas, and hope you liked it, Sherman Gill!!