How viable is it to do original animation on youtube?
Or is it pretty much you have to do "parodies" of existing ips to get any recognition and anything OC will unlikely take off?
I can think of like only a few OC series that have any kind of following (htf, inanimate insanity, simons cat, sexualobster, explosm).
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YouTube's algorithms reward time spent viewing instead of total amount of views now. You're also rewarded for very frequent uploads. That's why Let's Play channels are the kings of YouTube now; they're quick to churn out and easy to bingewatch as opposed to animations, where even the shortest ones take time and are much less likely to be watched for a long time. So no matter how popular your channel gets, you're not gonna be compensated much for your hard work. That's why many artists use Patreon now, and why people like Egoraptor jumped ship from animation entirely.
What about what explosm is doing. 1 minute long animations, then a 10 minute long compilation for watch time?
To add to this, to emphasize how ridiculous this is, popular animators make more money streaming the process of making a cartoon on Twitch than they do from the animation itself once it's uploaded to YouTube.
Explosm has a full production staff to put out videos as quick as possible. Compilations could help, but I doubt you'll have enough material for a compilation until like a year if you work alone (and try for quality over quantity).
I've heard that before but i've looked on twitch several times last month to see this, and i haven't seen any animtors with any viewers really doing anything (max viewers at any time was like 50 for highest viewed animation stream on twitch).
Where is ross streaming?
How about a barebone animation style thats very lively and the focus being the writing/humor?
Like say peppa pigs style of animation with one angle at all times:
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Can't post the link because lol4chanspamfilter, just google "RubberNinja Twitch"
Oh, if your focus is on writing above animation that'll work fine. It's still extremely unlikely for you to make a living off it, even if you make parodies of super popular things and load your titles and thumbnails with clickbait, unless you luck into making the next Racist Mario (but you'd have to lose your will to live before making something like that). It's just how YouTube works now.
That's the thing, i have millions of views by doing animated parodies but I want to do something original instead. I kinda feel a bit burned out doing nothing but parodies of existing things since i'm just riding their coat tails, but I fear that if I go the OC route odds are the channel will flop.
OH
I thought you were just planning on starting a channel.
If you already have an established audience, the best thing you can do is just ask them.
Animation isn't viable at all on YouTube anymore, because of algorithm changes. MattPat'so done like, 3 really in-depth videos on the subject if you care enough.
No idea where animation is supposed to go anymore. Newgrounds is dead, DeviantArt is cancer, YouTube competitors are dead... the only people I know who make money off of it are porn artists either doing commissions or who have their own site.
You can't do it anymore what you have to do now is make an easy 10 minute vid every day and sprinkle in your animation.
What you see now is people using twitch or picarto to get money while they work on their stuff. Hell, RubberNinja even said that he gets more money streaming his art on twitch than actually posting it to youtube.
It's depressing that actual content gets little reward where as eating doritos and playing video games in front of people is rewarded financially and considered a good job.
Another option would be to pitch a show to an established studio like Frederator
Frederator itself is dying. They laid off a ton of employees last year, and their main channel and sub channels are nothing but top 108 videos. Their bravest warriors/bee are barely making back any money as people dont want to shell out for the paid service to see them either.
I honestly didn't even know that was a thing.
Rwby did it though so makes sense. Then again rwby is dying too. Maybe pitch to Netflix that's worked for several.
>rwby is dying
Nigga what
Anything made by Rooster Teeth is as safe as possible, their legions of fans will watch and pay for anything.
No. Even if you do parodies that get millions of views, you will not be able to survive off of youtube income alone. You'll need patreon or something like that.
pencilmation does the same thing, but on a much more extreme scale.
>Animation isn't viable at all on YouTube anymore,
not true. It's viable if you have:
>A large fanbase that donates to you
>another person helping you churn out content
>your content is over 10 minutes
but seriously, your better of just doing what jaiden animates, extra credit or second thought does and have limited "animation" or visuals to accompany your verbal wall of text.