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You may already be familiar with the poplar flash-based holiday entertainment website, “Elf Yourself,” but if you have not looked at it in a few years (when it was oh-so-popular) or if you have forgotten what it is, take a few minutes to try it out again–you’ll find that it really doesn’t get old. Besides, the site has many new features that make it a great deal more entertaining.

Using a simple interface, the website allows you to plug in a photo of yourself, or even several ones to include friends or people you know, and then mounts the facial pictures onto dancing Christmas elves. The result, as you can imagine, is a fairly hilarious clip of you dancing in absurd and wild Christmas settings surrounded by snowmen and other holiday critters.

The process is very simple and well worth the short amount of time it takes to get things ready. First, the site asks you to upload a picture of yourself. To do so, you can choose a saved picture from your computer, or you can link to your Facebook account and choose one from your profile. If you have a webcam and would prefer to take a picture on the spot, you can do that too. Of course, doing so requires the dreaded Facebook permission option, but once you’ve had your fun, you can simply remove the application from your Facebook account to eliminate (or at least reduce) threats to your Internet security. Uploaded pictures have to be in either JPEG or PNG format and are limited to 3MB in size (which might be a problem for photos shot with high-resolution cameras that produce much larger file sizes).

The interface also allows you to zoom in and accurately outline or rotate your face within the picture you upload. You are also required to outline the area between your jaw line and upper lip to allow for the singing animation effect that accompanies the dancing in the final clip.

Once you add all the pictures you want, you can select what kind of dancing you want your elfed-self to perform. Choose from disco, 80’s, country, singing, hip hop, surf, and classical. The site allows you to link the short clip of yourself dancing in elf costume to your Facebook account or email it to friends. The online video has an expiration date, so once it’s over, the site prompts you to download it, naturally, for a small fee.

Overall, elfyourself is an easy way to laugh hard and get a last minute dose of the holiday spirit. If you like your video so much that you want a permanent souvenir, you can buy a DVD of your elf dancing to all the available options, custom mugs, mouse pads, and other items. To create other funny animated clips starring yourself, check out Jib Jab’s website.

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