![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Alan Becker | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born | Dublin, Ohio, U.S. | May 18, 1989||||||||||||
Education | Columbus College of Art and Design | ||||||||||||
Occupations | |||||||||||||
Spouse | Kaori Becker | ||||||||||||
YouTube information | |||||||||||||
Also known as | noogai89, noogai, noogai3 | ||||||||||||
Channel | |||||||||||||
Years active | 2006–present | ||||||||||||
Genres | |||||||||||||
Subscribers | 28.5 million [1] | ||||||||||||
Total views | 7.25 billion [1] | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Last updated: 2024-24-08 |
Alan Becker (born May 18, 1989) is an American online animator, YouTuber and artist, best known for creating the Animator vs. Animation web series and the spin-off Animation vs. franchise, in particular the web series Animation vs. Minecraft.
Becker was born in Dublin, Ohio. He graduated from Scioto High School in 2007, and attended Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating in 2013. [2]
When he was growing up, Becker's family owned one computer that was shared between him and his siblings. It was through this computer that he began experimenting with pixel art, beginning in 2001. Two of Becker's favorite animated short films were the 1953 Looney Tunes short Duck Amuck and the 1959 adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon , both of which contained animated characters using their surroundings to draw things out, which would become major inspirations for his later works. [3] Eventually becoming homeschooled in 2005, Becker received his first laptop, an Acer TravelMate, which he used to begin animating using Macromedia Flash (later Adobe Flash Professional and currently Adobe Animate). His first official animation, titled Pink Army, was posted on Newgrounds in 2006. Becker posted his YouTube channel the 24th of July that same year.
On June 3, 2006, at the age of 17, Becker posted the hit animation Animator vs. Animation on Newgrounds, where it quickly went viral and led to it being re-uploaded on various media websites. [2] Shortly after, an unnamed company offered him $75 for "exclusive rights" to "Animator vs Animation", but he decided against it, heeding the advice of Steven Lerner, owner of Albino Blacksheep. [3] Later, he discovered that his animation had been uploaded to the notorious entertainment website eBaum's World without permission. After Steven Lerner used this as evidence in a legal battle against eBaum's World, Becker accepted a $250 payment for use of the animation. However, following a change of heart, he claimed to have returned the money and had the animation removed. [3] On July 24, 2006, Alan Becker started publishing his work on YouTube.
Atom Films persuaded and funded Becker to create a sequel after the success of his first animation, and so he created Animator vs. Animation 2. In 2007, then 14-year-old Charles Yeh offered to create an online game based on the animation, and after looking at his impressive work, Becker agreed to collaborate with him. [4]
Becker continued releasing animations, animation tutorials, and further spin-offs of the Animator vs. Animation series. [2] Becker announced a Kickstarter for a card game based on his animations, which was released in May 2018. [5]
In December of 2023, his YouTube channel reached 27.5 million subscribers and gained a total of about 6 billion video views.
In 2007, Animator vs. Animation 2 won a "People's Choice" Webby Award. [2] [6] [7]
Year | Video | Notes |
---|---|---|
2006 | Pink Army | Alan Becker's first published animation to Newgrounds. |
Animator vs. Animation | ||
2007 | Animator vs. Animation 2 | Won a "People's Choice" Webby Award |
2011 | Animator vs. Animation 3 | |
2014 | Animator vs. Animation 4 | |
2015 | Animation vs. Minecraft (original) | |
2017 | Animation vs. YouTube | |
Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 1 (ep. 1–14) | ||
2018 | Animator vs. Animation Season 2 (ep. 5–8) | Started out as a miniseries called Animator vs. Animation Shorts before being compiled into one entry in 2020. |
Animation vs. League of Legends | ||
2019 | Animation vs. Pokémon | |
Blue's New Superpower | Is a fundraiser for the organization Team Trees | |
Animation vs. Super Mario Bros | ||
2020 | Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 2 (ep. 15–19) | |
Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 3 (ep. 20–30) | ||
2021 | Animation vs. Arcade Games | |
Animation vs. Trash | Is a fundraiser for the organization Team Seas. | |
2022 | Actual Shorts | The only animations on Alan's channel that are posted as YouTube Shorts, as opposed to full-length videos. |
2023 | Animator vs. Animation Season 3 | |
Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 4 | ||
Animation vs. Math | ||
Animation vs. Physics | ||
2024 | Animation vs. Geometry |
Newgrounds is a company and entertainment website founded by Tom Fulp in 1995. The site hosts user-generated content such as games, films, audio, and artwork. Fulp produces in-house content at the headquarters and offices in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan "Jonti" Picking, also known as Weebl and Mr Weebl, is a British Internet personality and Flash animator and is the creator of Weebl's Stuff.
A stick figure is a very simple drawing of a human or other animal, in which the limbs and torso are represented using straight lines. The head is most often represented by a circle, which can be filled or unfilled. Details such as hands, feet, and a neck may be present or absent, and the head is sometimes embellished with details such as facial features or hair. Simpler stick figures often display disproportionate physical features and ambiguous emotion.
eBaum's World is an entertainment website owned by Literally Media. The site was founded in 2001 and features comedy content such as memes, viral videos, images, and other forms of Internet culture. Content is primarily user submitted in exchange for points through a monetary point system "eBones."
PowerPoint animation is a form of animation which uses Microsoft PowerPoint and similar programs to create a game or movie. The artwork is generally created using PowerPoint's AutoShape features, and then animated slide-by-slide or by using Custom Animation. These animations can then be shared by transferring the PowerPoint file they were created in, and can be viewed with PowerPoint or Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer and are often exported to video formats such as mp4.
Simon's Cat is a British animated web and book series written by Simon Tofield. It features a fat, hungry white cat who uses various tactics to get his owner to feed him.
Charlie the Unicorn is a 2005 animated comedy short film created by Jason Steele (animator) of independent film company FilmCow in Orlando, Florida. The short follows Charlie, a lethargic and pessimistic unicorn, who is taken by a blue unicorn and a pink unicorn on an adventure to the magical Candy Mountain. However, the journey turns out to be a farce, and Charlie has his kidney stolen by the other two unicorns.
Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was a British animator, artist, and voice actor. He was best known for creating Eddsworld, a media franchise consisting of flash animations and web comics featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and others. After Gould's death in 2012, production of Eddsworld was passed on to Ridgewell and after Ridgewell's departure from Eddsworld in 2016 it was passed to Hargreaves and Gould's family.
Aaron Long is a Canadian animator and filmmaker. He is best known for his independent cartoons Sublo and Tangy Mustard and Fester Fish, and his work on the television series BoJack Horseman and Tuca & Bertie.
Arin Joseph Hanson, also known by the pseudonym Egoraptor, is an American YouTuber, actor, rapper, and animator. He is well known for his Flash cartoons, as well as being the co-founder and co-star of the popular YouTube Let's Play series Game Grumps.
Ross Kenry O'Donovan, also known as RubberNinja and RubberRoss, is an Australian animator, voice actor, and Internet personality. He is known for his solo work as a Twitch streamer, as well as his YouTube and Newgrounds cartoons and animations. He co-hosted the internet show Steam Train, a spin-off of YouTube Let's Play series Game Grumps.
Max John Gilardi, also known as Max G or his Internet pseudonym HotDiggedyDemon, is an American internet personality, YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for his PONY.MOV web series, a parody of the popular children's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, other viral videos, and his media analysis series known as Brain Dump.
Josiah Alan Brooks, known online by the mononym Jazza, is an Australian YouTuber, artist, animator, and presenter best known for his "quirky" art tutorials, humorous challenges, and detailed animations. As of September 2022, his five YouTube channels have collectively reached over 1.37 billion total video views and 7.11 million subscribers.
Adam Phillips, also known by his online alias Chluaid, is an Australian filmmaker, animator, and former freelancer. He is best known for his animation work, consisting of flash animation compositions published on his website, Bitey Castle, and on the flash portal Newgrounds. His animation work on the latter has over 16 million views, making him one of the most-viewed artists on the site. Phillips created the fantasy animation shorts series, Brackenwood, the first of which was posted on Newgrounds in March 2004.
Pencilmation is an American animated comedy web series on YouTube created by Ross Bollinger. The series follows the endless struggle between creator and creation as pencil-drawn stick figures and doodles come to life and grapple against the torment of their animator's pencil and his arsenal of other drawing implements. The cartoon can be recognized by its trademark ruled paper backdrop, traditional frame-by-frame animation technique, inclusion of pencils and other drawing material, energetic music, classic cartoonish sound effects, simplistic character designs, and a mix of slapstick, situational comedy, meta, and doodle-based humor.
Animator vs. Animation is a 2D animated web series created by Alan Becker. The original animation was first published on Newgrounds on June 3, 2006, with a sequel following 5 months later. All the installations were animated in Adobe Animate.
Zach Hadel, known by his pseudonym psychicpebbles, is an American animator, writer, director, voice actor, and YouTuber. He and Michael Cusack are co-creators and co-stars of the Adult Swim animated series Smiling Friends. He is also known for his Internet animations and for being a co-host of the Let's Play web series OneyPlays.
Pico's School is a 1999 Flash game developed by Tom Fulp for his website Newgrounds. At the time of its release, it was "one of the most sophisticated" browser games, exhibiting "a complexity of design and polish in presentation that [was] virtually unseen in amateur Flash game development". It has been widely credited with kickstarting the Flash games scene and helping launch Newgrounds "as a public force".
Michael R. Cusack is an Australian animator, writer, director, producer, musician, voice actor, and internet personality. He is known as the co-creator of the Adult Swim animated series Smiling Friends (2022–present), in which he voiced the characters Pim, Allan, and various others. He is also the creator of the Adult Swim animated series YOLO (2020–present) and the Hulu animated sitcom Koala Man (2023–present).
David Firth is an English animator. He created the Newgrounds animated web series Salad Fingers in 2004 and co-wrote the 2017 live-action feature film Kuso.