To be honest, I had a hard time writing this article. College is tough, and I haven’t been watching too much anime, nor have I been inspired at all.
But when I write these articles, I try to write something that inspires me. Since I haven’t been watching too much anime, I want to talk about and open the world of YouTube Animation or at least my experience and love for it.
Now first for some clarification, when I refer to the Youtube Animation community, one may expect what they see in movies or TV shows. But no, I am more so referring to independent creators who like to draw and post a video involving that whether that be someone showing their short film or progress on an personal project or maybe even an animatic (rough sketch of an animation).
Now I first got introduced to the animation community through the likes of Storytime animators —rough or even moving pictures animation but usually tells a story or has a fun gag—I got shown a video of the Odd1stOut by my brother. I started there and then moved on to other creators like Brodyanimates, Gingerpale, and SultanSketches. I love this community and this subsection since you really get to know and relate to each of these creators since they often talked about their own lives. In addition, the fact that they are able to create such an expressive media was inspiring to me. I felt personally impacted by some of the advice and life experiences they went through; for example, I love Kelsey Animated’s review of high school. I have so much love for the Youtube Animation community and hope one day to even meet some of them.
Another great community is song/musical animatics (basically the off shoots of all the Hamiltonian animatics that came out back in the day). These are usually animatics to a song, sometimes from musicals. I love the vibrant movements and since many watchers are not able to watch the musicals themselves, these types of animated videos allow viewers to envision the scenes unfolding in front of them. Sometimes it is fun to see how the creators take certain lines and create their own interpretations through their videos. Personally, it made me learn and become invested in many musicals.
The final frontier of animation is what inspired me currently to write this article which is short animations. Animation and even art itself is very tedious and for many of these creators when they work by themselves it takes months to create one animated piece since there has to be a lot of planning and frames of drawings to make the video happen. So short quick movement animation helps these creators produce content and even practice their animation in addition to appeasing the algorithm. So the likes of Telepurte or kekeflipnote, which produces high quality short animation, is becoming the new frontier of animation.
While these three sectors have been the biggest influences of YouTube animation on my life, it’s not to say that they are the only type of animation out there. Jacknjellify a YouTube channel that makes a full series that has been running for 10 years, is also a great example of different type of animation.
What is amazing about YouTube is the creativity to create whatever you want. This along with traditional animation in a studio has given people options. It inspired me to continue my love for animation even though I may be a full-time student since I can still have a place to share my work with millions.
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