James Rallison, the animator behind the channel TheOdd1sOut, says that his inspiration for some of the stories in his videos comes from his own real-life experiences.

They are best known for their dark comedy animated short series “Cyanide & Happiness”.

You might recognize Explosm from their NSFW stick-figure animations. It may be easy to interpret these jabs as merely disparaging the source material, but Alexander states that it all comes from a place of love, that they make animated parodies of certain films because they love them.Īnother animator of Explosm Entertainment, Rob DenBleyker, said that his interest in visual storytelling began not with animation but with the comics he read in newspapers as a child. HISHE videos often point out plot holes and other inconsistencies in a silly way. The channel pokes fun at popular movies, TV shows, and comics, focusing on the sci-fi and fantasy genres. One thing that many successful YouTube animators have in common is that their work was influenced by certain media that they loved to consume - often from a very early age.įor instance, Daniel Baxter and Tina Alexander’s “ How It Should Have Ended” (or “HISHE” for short) animated videos are based on popular media.