12 Days of Christmas Mini-Films

2025-03-28

Back in December of 2024, I did a series of mini-films for the 12 Days of Christmas. They’re short animated vignettes, each one or two minutes long.

Here's the link to the first video:
Day 1

You can find the rest from there.

They’re silly, but they don’t know they’re silly. Everything is played totally straight except the gags. I was attempting a stop-motion, claymation look which, I think, was fairly successful.

The timeline was perhaps a little foolish. To release a video-a-day for 12 days is not a huge problem so long as you give yourself a long running start. I'm used to working on a strict, regimented schedule. The issue here was that the idea for this project came in late November ... mere weeks before the first - and even the last - video would have been due for release. A wiser me might have shelved the whole thing for the following year. A wiser me I am apparently not.

This project was a crunch the whole way through. Smart planning, a furious hyper-focus and providence saw me through, but it was close at times.

It was well received. It boosted the reach on my instagram account tenfold and it taught me a great deal about what people actually want to see on their feeds. It’s not a surprise. They want fun.