Google's officially celebrating the holidays with the launch of its latest Google Doodle, an interactive holiday card that features 17 holiday scenes from around the world. Santa Claus on a rooftop, Indian classical dancers and colorful Moroccan henna lamps are among the international illustrations found in the Doodle, which can be seen above.
Users can hover over the images to get a slightly blown-up view of each picture, and clicking on one will lead them to search results pertinent to a specific country or the particular items featured in a scene.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, this Doodle, which went up at 9 a.m. ET today, is the brainchild of designer Micheal Lopez. It took roughly 250 hours for five artists to carry out the concept, and the final piece will remain on the Google homepage until Christmas is over. Though Lopez originally planned to post the Doodle in installments over the course of three days, executives who got a look at the work-in-progress last week decided it needed to go up in one shot. After six months of planning and working on the Doodle, Lopez and his team raced to get it done.