Week 7 - Animation for YouTube

YouTube in recent years has become a variable platform for not only independent film makers, but for animators too. On YouTube now there so many channels dedicated to animation and have full creative freedom to make and create what they like. One of the biggest YouTube channels is the Frederator Network. The Frederator Network launched in 1998 by Fred Seibert who was the former president at Hanna-Barbera. Their YouTube channel now has over 1 billion total views across it's separate 130 show channels. Frederator's back catalogue includes shows like Fairly Odd Parents and Adventure time.

Figure. 1. Channel Frederator Screen Shot

Dominic is a Canadian animator and illustrator who started creating comic strips on his Tumblr page. He now has a YouTube channel with 510, 235 subscribers as of making this Blog post. He creates amazing and funny short films that reflect on his life that he makes by himself.

Figure. 2. Domics Channel Screen Shot

Also other big animation companies like DreamWorks Animation have partnered with YouTube to produce a new show called YouTube Nation. YouTube Nation is a show that hosts various videos ranging from music videos to animation shorts. This show proves that larger animation studios are treating YouTube as a more stable platform.

  Figure. 3. YouTube Nation Channel Screen Shot

I feel that YouTube can be a great starting point for me to work on projects and upload them to my personal channel. I created a channel around the same time I started the course back in 2011 and I have uploaded animations from various modules and also my personal work. The figure below is a screen shot of my YouTube channel, I've tried to use the channel tool bar space to represent my 2D character work that I've done over the years. I did do a lot of research of how other channels look on the site. I have linked my YouTube channel to my Twitter account so when I do upload a video all my Twitter followers will see the video link.

Figure. 4. JordanPeely Channel Screen Shot

Reference Figures

Figure. 1. Channel Frederator Screen Shot http://www.youtube.com/user/ChannelFrederator (Accessed 09/03/2014)

Figure. 2. Domics Channel Screen Shot http://www.youtube.com/user/D0MICS/featured (Accessed 09/03/2014)

Figure. 3. YouTube Nation Channel Screen Shot http://www.youtube.com/user/youtubenation (Accessed 09/03/2014)

Figure. 4. JordanPeely Channel Screen Shot http://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPeely (Accessed 09/03/2014)