Many designers and crafts savvy creatives are now thinking about cool things they can design for the upcoming holiday season. If you're a designer in business, a creative "gift" for clients and friends will add further pizazz to your identity and illustrate your abilities.
One very cool project comes from the age-old world of movie making. At some point, someone discovered that if you saw a series of progressive images very rapidly, they would give the visual illustion of motion.
Take a look at this video "Squeeze Me" by Kraak & Smaak, and then read this article by xtine burrough, coauthor of Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, showing how to set up Photoshop's useful actions to automate a template for making a flipbook.
http://www.graphic-design.com/photoshop/tutorial/flipbooks-using-photoshop-actions