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On The Table Read, “the best entertainment magazine in the UK“, Andre Oentoro from BreadnBeyond shares his advice for the must-watch animated YouTube Channels.
Written by Andre Oentoro
Youtube is the best place to express various skills and creativity in the form of video content such as music, vlogs, animations, and much more. It can also be an excellent opportunity for you to showcase your artwork.
In fact, YouTube has billions of users from all over the world. It makes the YouTube platform a favorite for content creators and companies to be better known by the wider community.
There are many content ideas in the form of videos that you can use, one of which is an animated video. This type of video is a favorite content for companies and content creators because of its ability to attract customers’ attention with its compelling and funny visuals.
So, if you want to make a top-performing animated video, you will need a lot of inspiration from a variety of the best-animated videos. Let’s dive into eight must-watch animated YouTube channels to inspire you in every category:
1. Pencilmation
Pencilmation is a famous YouTube channel for its funny and appealing animated video works. The figures he creates are in the form of rods and modern scribbles with pencils, making them the hallmark of the pencilmation YouTube channel.
Moreover, it also displays compelling animated text that can be created with the help of text animation apps. It helps the viewers to understand your video better without any misconceptions.
So, when you find a pencil animation video from other social platforms, you will immediately recognize it as pencilmation. In addition, the storyline of humor and dry sarcasm makes this video from pencilmation more popular and invites social sharing.
2. ExplosmEntertainment
ExplosmEntertainment provides short comic content and short animated videos that last from 1 to 3 minutes. The concept or storyline that is given is more to entertain. Each video is made hysterically, often very random, and sometimes a little dark joke that makes these videos popular and liked by many viewers.
The movement animation displayed is also very smooth, and the animated character is also unique. It can be the best example of an animated video to inspire you to improve your artwork.
3. Simon’s Cat
Simon’s cat is a famous animation channel on YouTube with millions of subscribers and views. It is because the cat character animation is very adorable, and the storyline is funny drawing life with a cat in a series of cute 2D animations, is very well made, and manages to entertain many people.
In fact, most people love to watch this kind of entertaining animated video in their spare time. The ideas of this video are compelling, he can make a whole animated movie out of it.
The animation is excellent and smooth, it is created traditionally frame by frame. It is a content wonder for the cat lover. Perfect example of a simple animated video to inspire you.
4. sWooZie
sWooZie is one of the biggest animation channels on YouTube that is known for its animation and storytelling. The animation is very simple but that’s where its uniqueness is, it gives a feeling that is entertaining and not too serious for the audience
Interesting stick characters, simple animated images, and a clear storyline have made it successful in attracting audiences’ attention. It can be one of your inspirations to create animation.
5. Cas Van De Pol
Cas van de Pol is an animator from the Netherlands who makes an ultimate recap inspired by games, movies, or television shows.
What distinguishes Cas from other animators is that all the ultimate recaps that he presents are always very funny parodies. The recaps he worked on started from Bambi, Solo, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and many others.
The animation he makes is also very good, and of high quality, the storyline is very entertaining, and also the movement animation technique is very smooth. It makes the animated video cas van de pol channel famous and must be included in your list as inspiration.
6. Domics
Domics is a YouTube channel that focuses on short flash animation video content with various story concepts taken from the daily stories and experiences of the Canadian creator named dominic.
The animated videos that he makes are not only funny, but also honest, realistic, and interesting because the storylines are taken from everyday life so that many viewers feel related and ultimately interested. Domics fall into the category of animated explainer video types.
Apart from that, the combination of delivery, movement, and animation techniques is also a strong reason for you to make this video and your inspiration and ideas in making animated videos.
7. Kurzgesagt
The next must-watch YouTube channel is Kurzgesagt which presents a variety of content about the science presented in two-dimensional animated images that are quite interesting.
This channel, which originates from Germany, now has millions of subscribers because of the attractiveness and uniqueness of the video content displayed through animated videos and the concept of language using comprehensive, scientific, funny, and simple language.
8. Ted Ed
Ted Ed is an educational channel that uses video animation as its medium. This makes Ted Ed’s YouTube channel successful in attracting many subscribers and viewers.
Interestingly, the collaboration between educators and animators succeeded in producing an animated explainer video that is engaging, educational, and easy to understand.
So, you can make Ted Ed’s animated videos as inspiration for creating a video, starting from the concepts, animation-making techniques, etc. In addition, Ted Ed also provides a variety of classes, ranging from visual arts classes to math, health studies, and business classes.
Takeaway
The more animated video content you watch, the more inspiration and ideas you can put into the animated videos that you will make. That way, you will produce top-performing and high-quality animated videos.
So, you can watch the eight must-watch lists mentioned above, to give you essential lessons in animation techniques so that you can produce optimal videos and results according to your wishes.
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Andre Oentoro is the founder of Breadnbeyond, an award-winning explainer video company. He helps businesses increase conversion rates, close more sales, and get positive ROI from explainer videos (in that order).
Twitter: @breadnbeyond
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