New streaming platform Animation+ has tapped top YouTube animators like MeatCanyon, ExplosmEntertainment, Flashgitz, Pencilmation, and Jarrad Wright for deals that offer them “real equity participation in the studio, along with real television budgets” to produce 10 original series for Animation+’s premium adult animation channel.
That’s according to Evan Weiss, co-founder of Animation+ parent company Streaming Ink Media (Sim).
“We are actualizing ‘creator economy’ in our business model and our business affairs,” he added.
Weiss co-founded Streaming Ink Media with John Fitzpatrick in 2022; the two met while working with creators at Studio71 and Collective Digital Studio. Both worked on Fred: The Movie (there’s a throwback for YouTube oldies), and Fitzpatrick went on to work with Explosm Entertainment to secure crowdfunding/distribution deals for properties like Cyanide & Happiness. Weiss is also a former business affairs exec at Disney who ran United Talent Agency‘s TV packaging department for seven years.
That’s according to Evan Weiss, co-founder of Animation+ parent company Streaming Ink Media (Sim).
“We are actualizing ‘creator economy’ in our business model and our business affairs,” he added.
Weiss co-founded Streaming Ink Media with John Fitzpatrick in 2022; the two met while working with creators at Studio71 and Collective Digital Studio. Both worked on Fred: The Movie (there’s a throwback for YouTube oldies), and Fitzpatrick went on to work with Explosm Entertainment to secure crowdfunding/distribution deals for properties like Cyanide & Happiness. Weiss is also a former business affairs exec at Disney who ran United Talent Agency‘s TV packaging department for seven years.
- 6/20/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
We all deal with election-related stress in different ways. Some of us are scheduling calls with our therapists. Some of us are buying out shelves of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. Some of us have taped a bottle of Chateau Diana to our sweaty paws and started drinking ourselves into a stupor. And some of us — dare I say, the more psychologically well-adjusted among us? — are eroticizing Fivey, the vulpine mascot of Nate Silver’s wonk blog, FiveThirtyEight.
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- 11/3/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
With countries around the world taking increasingly drastic measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus, one inevitable casualty so far has been the high street. All but essential businesses are now either in voluntary or enforced lockdown in Europe and the Us, though fear not, for “essential” retailer GameStop remains open and ready for business.
Unsurprisingly, the internet has reacted with total incredulity to the video game chain’s decision, with many decrying the company’s total disregard for the health and safety of customers and employees alike. While not a soul would argue against gaming being a terrific means of passing the time while self-isolating at home, GameStop’s claim as “essential” is not only being criticized for being irresponsible, but completely disingenuous.
It is, after all, nothing short of common knowledge that video games are readily available online as digital downloads, a fact that GameStop has so far conveniently overlooked.
Unsurprisingly, the internet has reacted with total incredulity to the video game chain’s decision, with many decrying the company’s total disregard for the health and safety of customers and employees alike. While not a soul would argue against gaming being a terrific means of passing the time while self-isolating at home, GameStop’s claim as “essential” is not only being criticized for being irresponsible, but completely disingenuous.
It is, after all, nothing short of common knowledge that video games are readily available online as digital downloads, a fact that GameStop has so far conveniently overlooked.
- 3/20/2020
- by Joe Pring
- We Got This Covered
Cyanide & Happiness is giving its fans a chance to author their own profane comic strips. The popular webcomic, whose creators also run a thriving YouTube channel, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Joking Hazard, a new tabletop game that blends Cyanide & Happiness with Cards Against Humanity.
Joking Hazard is inspired by the random comic generator available on the Cyanide & Happiness website. As with that program, each round of the game creates its own three-panel comic that ends in the sort of explicit, non-pc conclusion for which C&H is known. The competitive aspect of the game arrives in that last panel, where a judge determines which other player’s punchline makes for the funniest comic.
An introductory video hosted by C&H’s Rob DenBleyker provides more details about Joking Hazard. We also get to see the game in action; when the C&H team plays it, funny voices are involved.
Joking Hazard is inspired by the random comic generator available on the Cyanide & Happiness website. As with that program, each round of the game creates its own three-panel comic that ends in the sort of explicit, non-pc conclusion for which C&H is known. The competitive aspect of the game arrives in that last panel, where a judge determines which other player’s punchline makes for the funniest comic.
An introductory video hosted by C&H’s Rob DenBleyker provides more details about Joking Hazard. We also get to see the game in action; when the C&H team plays it, funny voices are involved.
- 2/9/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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