No pressure!

You have a whole 12 days less Christmas, Christmas eve, and new years day (if you celebrate those holidays).

So, no problem that is still 9 days.

Wait, any Christmas shopping or Christmas parties? Well maybe you lose another 2 or 3 days.

No worries, that still leaves you 6 days.

No pressure! God created the world in that many days and rested on the next. But all you guys will have to do is - put together a story, develop a couple character concepts, model, UV unwrap, texture, rig, animate, light, and render something. Cake!

Sounds like you need to add something like building, staining, and vanishing bookshelf and then writing a small 4000 page nova describing the inner most feelings of all the characters in the animation to put on the bookshelf before the end of the year as well.

Sorry, I just could not resist poking a little fun at you.

Good luck guys!

Oh, and I would be partial to a deep beechnut stain on that bookshelf.