

One year later, on October 31, 2005, Bollinger would upload the second installment, Pencilmation #2. It was received with high praise and would end up being awarded a Daily Feature from the site.

On June 4, 2004, Bollinger uploaded the very first Pencilmation cartoon onto Newgrounds. Bollinger worked alone and was responsible for every aspect of creating the cartoon, including writing, drawing, animating, sound design, and composing, a trend that would more or less continue for the first few dozen Pencilmation episodes. HistoryĪt age 16, after being inspired from watching the Daffy Duck cartoon Duck Amuck, Bollinger created the first Pencilmation cartoon in Macromedia Flash and uploaded it to. 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.Īs of December 2021, Pencilmation is the 260th most subscribed channel, the 225th most viewed channel, the 104th most subscribed channel from the US, the 15th most subscribed channel in the Film category, and the largest (most subscribed and most viewed) 2D Animation-focused original creator channel on all of YouTube. The series follows the endless struggle between creator and creation, in which 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. Pencilmation is an American animated comedy web series on YouTube created by Ross Bollinger.
