Alan Becker (born 1989) is an animator from Dublin, Ohio who is best known for creating the "Animator vs. Animation" series and its spin-offs "Animation vs. Minecraft" and "Animation vs. YouTube" on Newgrounds and YouTube.
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Career
In 2006, at the age of 17, Becker posted the video "Animator vs. Animation" to sharing site Newgrounds, where the video quickly went viral and led to it being re-uploaded on various media websites. Becker almost sold the exclusive rights to his animation for $75 but decided against it; heeding the advice of Steven Lerner, owner of Albino Blacksheep. Later he discovered that this animation was uploaded to the site Ebaums World without permission (for which the site was infamous of re-uploading other people's content without the creator's consent). After Steven Lerner used this as evidence in a legal battle against Ebaums World, Becker accepted a $250 payment for use of the animation. However, following a change of heart, he returned the money and had the animation removed.
Atom Films persuaded Becker to create a sequel after the success of his first animation, so he created "Animator vs. Animation II" and, after multiple requests, created "Animator vs. Animation III" before moving on to work on other projects. In 2007 Charles Yeh offered to make a game of the animation and after looking at his impressive work Alan agreed to collaborate with him. Becker intended make the third iteration the last in the series, stating that he "wanted to make sure that no sequel could come out of that" by ending the video with a blue screen of death, as if the computer is dead and the animation series could no longer go any further. But he has stated that his animation teacher had inspired him to continue on YouTube. His fourth video, "Animator vs. Animation IV", received over $11,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
Becker has recently created works related to the video game Minecraft such as the video "Animation vs. Minecraft" and a world map based on the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro.
Becker also created a series of "how-to" videos regarding animation based on the "12 basic principles of animation" which was uploaded on his secondary YouTube channel "Alan Becker Tutorials". The most popular video on his channel is Animation vs. Minecraft, which has more than 86 million views.
On November 21, 2017, Becker announced that he was working with Insanity Games to create a card game based on his animations. The estimated release date for the card game is May of 2018.
Starting on November 18th, 2017, Alan Becker has been making new short Minecraft animations due to the fact that Animation vs. Minecraft receives more views, beating Animator vs. Animation as the most viewed video in his channel.
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Awards
In 2007, "Animator vs. Animation II" won a "People's Choice" Webby Award.
Filmography
- Pink Army (2004)
- Animator vs. Animation (2006)
- Animator vs. Animation II (2007)
- We Are Corn (2010)
- If Water Had Eyes (2010)
- Animator vs. Animation III (2011)
- The Burger (2011)
- Burger Box (2012)
- Stick Texting (2012)
- My paper crane flew away (2013)
- Lumin (2013)
- A Wild Pokémon Sighting (2013)
- Revolt TV Animation (2014)
- Revolt TV Animation 2 (2014)
- Animator vs. Animation IV (2014)
- Chairbending (2015)
- Stick Texting - A Whole Conversation (2015)
- Animation vs. Minecraft (2015)
- The Story Of Love (2016)
- GreeNoodle (2016)
- Animation vs. YouTube (2017)
- AVM Shorts #1 - The Rediscovery (2017)
- AVM Shorts #2 - The Building Contest (2017)
- AVM Shorts #3 - The Roller Coaster (2018)
- AVM Shorts #4 - Potions (2018)
- AVM Shorts #5 - Note Blocks (2018)
Video Games
- Animator vs. Animation Game (2007)
References
External links
- Official website
- YouTube channel
- Newgrounds account
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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