Is Social Media Making Animation More Accessible? Video Essay
This video discusses social media’s impact on the accessibility of Animation because I was tasked with creating a video essay for the first time for a university project. Diving into the way historically that people have had access to entertainment and animation in comparison to the modern world of streaming and social media where animation is at most of our fingertips. Touching on the negative impact that studios and streaming services have had on the animation industry and how that has fuelled the current rise in independent animation.
Using examples of successful independent animated shows such as Lackidaisy to emphasis social media’s role in crowdfunding a diverse range of animated projects, I am able to analyse the effects of social media on the accessibility of animation today in comparison to the past and what that could mean for the future. However, Social media is not perfect and its complex algorithms are creating a barrier in the accessibility of animation.
This is my first time creating a video essay and I have gained a lot of respect for those who do it professionally, I hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - History of Entertainment
0:56 - End of Steaming
1:40 - Rise of Independent Animation
2:34 - TikTok
3:32 - Algorithms
4:09 - Conclusion
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Independent Animations Featured:
• THE EBONY WITCH project
• Among the Others: Prologue | OFFICIAL SIZZ...
• MANDELBROT HALL - Official Trailer
• ROCK AND RIOT! Love Follies (Animated Pilot)
• Obituary - A Grave Beginning (Cartoon Ser...
• PORT BY THE SEA [Animated Pilot]
• HOME | A Stop Motion Story of Community, I...
• LACKADAISY (Pilot)
Video Clips:
• Every Perry Entrance (Season 1)
• Adventure TIme | Jake's Super Stretch | Ca...
• INSIDE OUT Clips (2015) Disney Pixar
• THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS: PILOT
• Alice In Wonderland - Grow
• asdfmovie15
• It's A Blind Race | The Goons | Gumball | ...
• SpongeBob SquarePants | Karen Has Been Inf...
• Human Friends | We Bare Bears | Cartoon Ne...
• Tom & Jerry | Fetching The Newspaper for S...
• Video
• The Odd 1s Out & CircleToonsHD Face Off Ag...
• When We Fight We Win
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Bendazzi, G. 2015. Animation: a World History : Volume III: Contemporary Times. CRC Press LLC. Milton. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central.
Brown, T. (2023). Streaming’s boom-and-bust cycle hit animators hard. It’s not the first time. Los Angeles Times. [Online]. June 13. Available at https://www.latimes.com/entertainment...
Business of Animation. (N/A). How TikTok Animators are Dominating the Animation Industry. [Online]. Business of Animation. Last Updated: N/A. Available at: https://businessofanimation.com/how-t...
Choi, Chulyoung. 2020. Study of Character Animation to improve Production Efficiency. International journal of advanced smart convergence. 9(2), pp.179-184. [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7236/IJASC.2020.9....
Furniss, M. 2017. Animation: the Global History. Thames & Hudson. Limited. London. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central.
Wang,Y. (2024). The Impact of Social Media on Television Broadcasting and Film Production. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. 867(N/A), p.N/A. [Online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-2...
Hodge, A. P. (2023). The art of change over time: Analyzing alternative production pathways in animated television. Honors College, Texas State University. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10877/17059