Ross Bollinger
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| Born | Ross Bollinger November 15, 1987 Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
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| 📆 Years active | 2004–present |
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Ross Bollinger (born November 15,1987) is an American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, musician, and composer. He is head of the media franchise, and creator of its titular cartoon web series, Pencilmation.
Early life[edit]
Bollinger was born on November 15, 1987 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bollinger is a multi-instrumentalist able to play violin,[1] guitar, ukulele, and piano, among other instruments. Bollinger was first introduced to animation in the Fifth Grade by his Canadian elementary school teacher Mr. Maznevski.[1] Maznevski held a stop-motion animation workshop over the summer where Bollinger and other students were taught how to create stop-motion animation using webcams and clay. Bollinger would soon go on to create his own stop-motion claymations at home. This sparked Bollinger's passion for animation which continues to this day. In school, Bollinger would take a computer class where he learned the basics of an early version of Adobe Flash.[1] The concept of Pencilmation came to Bollinger when he was inspired to create a flash animation after watching the classic Looney Tunes (Merrie Melodies) short Duck Amuck.[2] Bollinger states:
At age 16, I was teaching myself Macromedia Flash. After having watched Duck Amuck, I decided to create my own rendition of the "creator versus creation" concept, calling it Pencilmation. That cartoon turned out to be the first episode in my eponymous animated web series. I can say with certainty that that animation quite literally changed me![3]
Bollinger would eventually graduate from college for visual arts,[1] further sharpening his animation skills. His senior project was animating more Pencilmation episodes.
Career[edit]
On June 4, 2004, Bollinger uploaded the very first Pencilmation cartoon onto Newgrounds.com.[4] It was received with high praise and would end up being awarded a Daily Feature from the site. One year later, on October 31, 2005, Bollinger would upload the second installment, Pencilmation #2.[5] This too was well received and ended up winning a Frontpaged award along with other accolades. It wouldn't be until mid-2009 when Pencilmation episodes #3-6 would be uploaded onto Newgrounds. In June of 2009, all previous episodes and all future episodes would be uploaded onto YouTube. By 2016, Pencilmation episodes would be exclusively uploaded onto YouTube. In April 2010, Bollinger won 1st Place in Animation at the 31st College Television Awards hosted by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation for Pencilmation #10, Hook, Line and Stinker.[6] Up until 2018 when Pencilmation began skyrocketing in popularity, Bollinger maintained a living doing freelance work alongside his production of episodes.[2] Bollinger attached himself to various animation projects, including music videos and corporate marketing videos.[7] Bollinger has also applied himself to other artistic avenues, including personal collaborative projects, such as joint ventures with YouTube channels Grumology[8] and Mondo Media,[9] and public service announcements, such as a partnership with Amrai Pari to bring awareness to Bangladeshis about natural disaster safety.[10] Over the years, Bollinger would go from being a one-man operation with producing Pencilmation cartoons to collaborating with a small handful of others to overseeing a company with hundreds of contractors and employees. Between 2018 to 2020, Pencilmation's subscriber count exploded from a little more than 1 million to over 15 million,[11] the channel views count from tens of millions to over 9 billion. This was largely in part to YouTube's internal algorithm promoting videos on its YouTube Kids platform, as well as considerable exposure from being included as a part of the 2019 YouTube Rewind video recap.[12][13][14]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Grumo Media (January 5, 2017). "Ross Bollinger: The Man Behind Pencilmation". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Miller, Pat (June 10, 2009). "'Pencilmation' Abuses Cartoons For Our Pleasure". Tubefilter. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ↑ Dudok De Wit, Alex (December 2, 2020). "The Animation That Changed Me: Ross Bollinger on 'Duck Amuck'". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ captainmcross (June 4, 2004). "Pencilmation #1". Newgrounds. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ captainmcross (October 31, 2005). "Pencilmation #2". Newgrounds. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Emmys.com Staff (April 2010). "College Television Awards". Emmys. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Laura Hegarty (January 29, 2018). "Ross Bollinger Digital West Event Interview GMIT 30Jan2018". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Grumology (January 30, 2015). "Why is Soda Cheaper Than Water? [Grumology]". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ New Media Rockstars Admin (April 23, 2013). "'Pencilmation' Creator Ross Bollinger Back With 'The App Story' [INTERVIEW]". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ↑ Waterton, Sam (November 29, 2016). "Using cartoons to help save lives". BBC. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Datalented - Most Popular Data (May 21, 2020). "Most Popular Animation Channels | Most Subscribed Animator [ 2012 - 2020 ]". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ YouTube (December 5, 2019). "YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record | #YouTubeRewind". YouTube. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ↑ Lawler, Richard (December 5, 2019). "YouTube Rewind 2019 charts put 'Minecraft,' PewDiePie at the top". Engadget. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ↑ Woodcock, Zara (December 5, 2019). "PewDiePie crowned most watched and most-subscribed YouTuber of the year". Metro. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
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