Liam Vickers

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Liam Vickers
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Vickers sitting in a hallway
Born (1995-12-28) December 28, 1995 (age 29)
Phoenix, Arizona
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater University of Southern California [1]
Occupations
  • Animator
  • visual effects artist
  • writer
  • director
  • composer
  • voice actor
  • YouTuber
Years active2013–present
Organizations
Notable work
Website liamvickers.com

Liam Vickers (born December 28, 1995) is an American animator, visual effects artist, writer, director, composer, voice actor, and YouTuber. He is best known as the creator of the animated web series Murder Drones , CliffSide, and Internecion Cube, as well as his discontinued creepypasta YouTube channel Scary Story Time With Liam.

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Career

Liam Vickers began as a writer at the age of 17 after watching creepypastas on YouTube and feeling inspired to write stories with his narrations. [‡ 1] He would soon create his first YouTube channel named "Scary Story Time With Liam" in 2013. [‡ 2] He spent about 6–7 years writing Creepypastas and music on the channel and gained a fan base for his style of writing. His most notable work from the channel is a story series named Design. This would become the most popular series on the channel and a huge stepping stone for Liam's career. [‡ 3]

Around 2015, Vickers launched his second channel, "SpoopTime". This channel was intended as a dumping ground for his classwork at the University of Southern California. Primarily animations, but also featuring several original songs. [‡ 4]

In 2018 he created a third channel named Liam Vickers Animation where he uploaded his post-USC animation work. [‡ 5] Shortly after he officially graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Animation and Digital Art, Liam gained the profession of a Storyboard Artist. As an animation artist, he uploaded test footage for a long-existing project titled "Let's Split Up", originally started during his time at USC under the title "Split", this footage was uploaded on February 10, 2018, on Liam Vickers Animation, which sparked more interest than anything uploaded to SpoopTime. [‡ 6]

On July 26, 2020, Vickers announced that he was discontinuing the Scary Story Time With Liam channel to pursue his career in animation. [‡ 7] Since then, Liam has interned at Netflix Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and DreamWorks Animation. [2]

Animated series

CliffSide (2018)

The first major project of Liam Vickers was named Cliffside. [‡ 8] Cliffside was worked on entirely by himself, and it was in production for over a year. [3] The pilot episode was released on May 20, 2018. The story is about a town in a valley where all sorts of monsters live. A self-confident teenager, his apathetic partner and a spider-girl saves Cliffside from a rather unconventional evil. Cliffside was very well acclaimed in the growing realm of Indie Animation, notable for its goofy humor and unique characters, the pilot has been garnering over 10 million views as of 2024.

Internecion Cube (2020)

After the success of Cliffside, Vickers made several animatics under the tentative title of Internecion Cube. [‡ 9] The story of the series follows a 15-year-old boy named Max who steals a cube from the government, whom is an AI capable of destroying the whole world. He and his classmate Kirie Bonin team up to save the world from an unknown threat related to the Internecion Cube.

According to Liam, Internecion Cube was a practice sequence to practice storyboarding in his free time, a way to push himself to see what he could do. [‡ 10] However, it quickly attracted the attention of fans, and its popularity grew thanks to the support of communities on YouTube and other online platforms. [4] As of 2024, the series is on an indefinite hiatus as Vickers went to work on Murder Drones.

Murder Drones (2021-2024)

Murder Drones is an independent-animated web series created by Vickers and produced by Australian animation studio Glitch Productions that was released onto the studio's YouTube channel on October 29, 2021. [‡ 11] Vickers served as a showrunner, storyboard artist, motion graphics artist, and compositor, [‡ 12] as well as voicing minor characters throughout the show. [5]

Murder Drones was a massive success in the rapidly growing independent animation industry on YouTube and has garnered over 250 million views across 8 episodes as of 2024. It was well received by both audiences and critics for its animation and mix of comedy and horror elements, although there was criticism for its fast-pacing and convoluted storyline. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "L.A. Coliseum brings USC classroom concepts to life". University of Southern California . November 29, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Liam Vickers - Showrunner/executive Producer at Glitch Productions". THE ORG. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
  3. ↑ Mak, Philip (June 12, 2018). "Calling it: This young animator is the next Seth MacFarlane". Toonboom. Retrieved November 20, 2024. CliffSide was in pre-production for about a year and a half, but animated in around four months.
  4. ↑ W. James, Tito. "Horror and Comedy Collide In Liam Vickers' New Cartoon Series 'Internecion Cube'". Comicon.com . Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Murder Drones (2021)". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  6. ↑ Tilley, Ava. "Murder Drones was an indie series that was worth the watch". The Central Trend. Retrieved November 5, 2024.

Primary sources

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ↑ Asher (Archivist) (April 3, 2024). SSTWL - 10,000 SUBS Q&A【Answers!】Part 1 . Retrieved November 21, 2024– via YouTube.
  2. ↑ "Scary Story Time With Liam". YouTube .
  3. ↑ "Design". YouTube. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  4. ↑ "SpoopTime". YouTube. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Liam Vickers Animation". YouTube .
  6. ↑ Let's Split Up [Animatic]. YouTube. February 10, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  7. ↑ Goodbye SSTWL (Spoopiest Story Yet). YouTube. July 26, 2020. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
  8. ↑ Liam Vickers Animation (May 20, 2018). CliffSide | Cartoon Series Pilot . Retrieved October 22, 2024– via YouTube.
  9. ↑ Liam Vickers Animation (April 3, 2020). Internecion Cube | Cartoon Series [Part 1] . Retrieved October 22, 2024– via YouTube.
  10. ↑ Liam Vickers Animation (August 3, 2020). Update 2020 . Retrieved November 19, 2024– via YouTube.
  11. ↑ GLITCH (October 29, 2021). MURDER DRONES - Episode 1: PILOT . Retrieved October 22, 2024– via YouTube.
  12. ↑ "Murder Drones". Glitch Productions.
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