Black animation at the crossroads?: Diversity, corporate mandates, backlash, and hope

I recently came across a piece in the St. Louis American about Iyanu: Child of Wonder, which is based on a Nigerian graphic novel by Roye Okupe and Godwin Akpan, which incorporates Yoruba mythology and stories and was produced by a Black-owned animation studio (Lion Forge Animation). While this series, said to be influenced by Black Panther, Hair Love, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), Legend of Korra, and Star Wars, has been compared to ATLA, Adventure Time, Black Panther, and Spider-Man: Homecoming, it is different. It draws exclusively from non-Western influences, specifically Nigerian culture. Within the article in St. Louis American, David Steward II, CEO of Lion Forge Entertainment and executive producer of Iyanu, said something which stuck with me. He noted that the series writers, artists, and voice talent are Black, but that usually when media is “showing you the Black experience…most of that room is not black. Most of the decision making is not made by people who look like what’s being portrayed on screen.” It is that quote which inspired this article, which aims to examine recent Black animated series, and Black characters in other series, noting the challenge that those series are currently facing, and what lies ahead.

As the writing of this post, only six animated series, which are made by Black people, are currently streaming: Iyanu, Good Times, Oh My God… Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances, Lyla in the Loop, Lil Kev, and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. Iyanu is by two Nigerian men (Okupe and Akpan). The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is created by two Black men (Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar) and is a reboot/revival of sorts of The Proud Family, which aired on the Disney Channel in the early 2000s. Good Times is created by an Afro-Latina showrunner named Ranada Shepard. Oh My God… Yes! is by a Black woman named Adele Williams. It is also the first mature animation to have a Black woman as lead protagonist since Hey Monie! in 2003, following the temporary shelving of the Daria spinoff, Jodie. Then there’s Lil Kev, a series created by Black comedian Kevin Hart, and with a nearly all-Black voice cast. Finally, there’s Lyla in the Loop, a children’s educational comedy with a White man as the creator, but various Black people working on the series: head writer Fracaswell Hyman, story editor Monique D. Hall, and many others (Nneka Bolden, Kylett Jones, Kelly Jones, Amon Millner, Cosette Strong). Despite this, there is trouble looming on the horizon.

Presently, there is a push by reactionary forces to root out anything promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity, whether in the U.S. government itself or within U.S. society. For instance, the new FCC chair, Brendan Carr, began an investigation into Disney and ABC with the claim they are “promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” which is code for saying that anything supporting diversity, equity, or inclusion is no longer allowed. This followed Disney scaling back some efforts to promote diversity. Of the above-named shows, most are on networks owned by mega-conglomerates, whether Max and Adult Swim (owned by Warner Bros. Discovery), Disney+ (owned by Disney), Paramount+ (owned by CBS) or Netflix. All of these services could be impacted by federal mandates to reduce diversity. The other series is on PBS, which has already been targeted for federal cuts this year.

These companies do not have a good track record when it comes to keeping Black animated shows on the air. For instance, although Disney gained headlines for Iwájú, which had a set of six episodes, for its collaboration with Kugali Media, a Pan-African company based in the U.K., there was no effort to continue the series since all the episodes dropped in February of last year. The same can be said for Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire developed by two Nigerian men (Shofela Coker and Raymond Malinga) and an Egyptian man (Ahmed Teilab) and executive produced by filmmaker Peter Ramsey. Although this set of ten short films each had their own charm, there has been no attempt to turn any of these episodes into their own independent series since the series was added to Disney+ in June 2023. Additionally, Disney’s recent decisions put the future of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is in flux, considering the focus of the series on racial justice, Black history, Black empowerment, Indigenous rights, and LGBTQ+ characters.

Netflix is similar. It had a musical comedy series named Karma’s World which aired for four seasons, and forty episodes, between October 2021 and September 2022. Created by Chris Bridges, the series centered on a Black girl named Karma Grant. Netflix did not attempt to keep it going despite positive reception to the series. Supa Team 4, a superhero action comedy which received acclaim for as the first African animated series on the streaming platform. It aired for two seasons in July 2023 and December 2023, and was created by a Zambian woman named Malenga Mulendema. Netflix did not renew it after 2023. Even worse was the cancellation of My Dad the Bounty Hunter, a sci-fi adventure action-comedy by Everett Downing Jr. and Patrick Harpin, and centering on a Black family. Although its two seasons were released in February 2023 and August 2023, it was cancelled following the airing of the second season, leaving many storylines sadly unfulfilled.

Warner Bros. Discovery is the home of the action comedy by Juston Gordon-Montgomery, Invincible Fight Girl, which centers on a Black girl named Andronicus Dependent “Andy” Smith who is determined to become a pro-wrestler. At the same time, the conglomerate cancelled a series by a Black man named Henry Bonsu, named Lazor Wulf. It had aired on Adult Swim for two seasons (and a total of 20 episodes), until January 2021, and featured “a predominantly black voice cast, which is still a rarity in animation,” as one site put it. Similarly, Mike Tyson Mysteries, which features Mike Tyson as a creator, was cancelled in February 2020 after four seasons. Nor did the executives care to renew an apt animated sitcom entitled Young Love, created by Matthew A. Cherry, which aired in 2023 and a spinoff from his 2019 short film, Hair Love, either, to give another example.

If this wasn’t enough, there were reports that Warner Bros. Discovery slashed the final season of Craig of the Creek, a children’s adventure series. Although the creators weren’t Black, the series mainly centers on Black stories. The series ended in late January of this year, after airing on Cartoon Network and streaming on Max. While it had six seasons, and a film, the last two seasons were only ten episodes long, rather then previous seasons which had 40 episodes each. Even worse, the series spinoff, entitled Jessica’s Big Little World, only lasted for twenty episodes before executives cancelled it, showing their disdain for series like it. Additionally, Young Justice, a superhero series which featured various Black characters, was cancelled in 2022. The somewhat controversial gen:LOCK, created by Michael B. Jordan, who voices protagonist Julian Chase, ended the year before, after airing on Rooster Teeth and Max. News about the series Obi, which would be co-created by Obi Arisukwu and Arthur Harris, was announced in 2021 for HBO Max, and produced by Jordan’s Outlier Society, has not been shared since, so likely it was ended as well.

Other series which were not created by Black people, but feature Black characters prominently have not been spared. For instance, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, has a Black Asian protagonist (her identification as the latter led to some controversy since “she wasn’t designed or cast that way”) named Kipo Oak. There are various Black characters, specifically Benson Mekler, Wolf, Dave, and Lio Oak. All of its episodes were placed by Netflix within one year in four blocks (from January to October 2020), rather than having g 1-3 episodes a week. It was not renewed, resulting in a rushed ending. Similarly, We the People, an animated and educational limited series by Chris Nee, which lasted for ten episodes, and another series by Nee, entitled Ada Twist, Scientist, were not renewed. Series like Dee & Friends in Oz, and Yasuke, which included Black characters, were not renewed either. The latter, which centered on a Black samurai named Yasuke, was a hot mess, despite being co-directed by a Black male animator named LeSean Thomas. All of this throws into question Netflix’s commitment to diversity in their series.

Although Ariel, a series centering on an eight-year-old mermaid princess (from The Little Mermaid) named Ariel, is a Black girl, is still airing on Disney, in the last five years, the company cancelled, as noted earlier, Iwájú, Kizazi Moto, and Moon Girl, and let other series end. Doc McStuffins, Eureka!, and Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes, all of which have Black girls as protagonists, ended in April 2020, March 2023, and February 2024 respectfully. There’s little hope that Zombies: The Re-Animated Series will survive either, which features Ironheart/Riri Williams  and another Black character. Some crew members were reportedly laid off and the number of episodes were slashed. The same is likely the case with Eyes of Wakanda, which currently only has a six-episode order, but a lot of Black characters, and Black creator named Todd Harris. This may be the fate of Cookies & Milk, said to be an upcoming series developed by Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland, and based on Shawn Amos’ debut novel of the same name. After all, Tiana, an animated series meant to spin off of the 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, and focus on Tiana, was cruelly cancelled by Disney. Although it will be replaced with an animated special, the cancellation is still disturbing.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, which is developed and produced by various White people, but has Black people filling the voice cast, and the crew (like composer Raphael Saadiq) was treated worst of all, even though it won various awards and acclaim. It centers on Lunella Lafayette, a Black girl who dons a costume and becomes “Moon Girl” after she meets a dinosaur who she names “Devil,” and her family, had its premiere delayed by twice, first to 2022, then to 2023. The episodes were posted in blocks on Disney+ and not in sync for when they aired on television (on the Disney Channel). The end of Moon Girl is not only devastating for Black girls but anyone who benefits from representation of Black characters in media. It creates another hole in animation which will not be easily filled by any other series. After all, there are very few other Black superhero animated series, apart from Vixen in the 2010s, Static Shock in the 2000s, or Todd McFarlane’s Spawn in the 1990s, and upcoming series like Ironheart and Wonder Man

Apple canned Central Park, which features Black characters Cole, Molly, and Owen Tillerman, in December 2023, while Esme & Roy, which has a Black female protagonist named Esmeralda “Esme,” was removed from Max unceremoniously in August 2022. Nella the Princess Knight had two seasons on Nickelodeon, then Paramount+, and centered on a Black girl named Nella, but was not renewed. Furthermore, StuGo, which features various Black characters, like Francis and Dr. Lullah, but has a White creator named Ryan Gillis, will likely be coming to an end later this year. While it is great that one producer of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, is a Black woman, that does not mean that series will be spared from cancellation.

As it stands now, there are at least twenty-six series with Black characters currently airing, while at least seventy series, with Black characters, have ended in the 2020s, including those in Hailey’s On It!, The Owl House, Birdie Wing, Arcane, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Lycoris Recoil, Glitch Techs, The Dragon Prince, Hilda, Hamster & Gretel, and Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, to give a few examples. [1] And those are the only ones I know of off-hand and from some research into this topic.

This brings me to indie animation. I looked into if it has a better track record of series centering on Black characters than animation created by mega-conglomerates. Back in July 2022, I highlighted a few animated series by Black animator Brandon Wright: Guardian Instance, Diver: The Animated Series, and Silver Lin. His YouTube channel shows another series in the process: Deadstar Saga. Like his other series, it centers on Black characters and has sci-fi themes, as shown in the 22-minute pilot. In my post I further pointed to sci-fi action-adventure cartoon named Defenders of Alodia, created by Naya, a Black animator and founder of Shockwave Animation, with art direction and character design by Vector Convoy. Its status after October 31, 2024 is not known, but it is likely still in development. As for the pilot for SALEM, a series created by Samantha “Sam” Sawyer and said to focus on a non-binary cryptid named Salem, featured a Black character named Petra. Sadly, it appears that it died in development hell.

I also pointed to Jumbie, a 2D animated series, produced by a small studio in Trinidad and Tobago, GemGfx Animation Studios, which seems to be in development, along with projects like Celflux. While the suspense mystery show entitled Blackwater Creek, created by Vampire Nwt, seems to faded from existence, as has artist and animator Tamara’s Starmakers series, Cutting Edge Animation, a studio founded by a Black non-binary illustrator, filmmaker, and writer named Lamard Cher-Aimé, is still active. It has on, tap, this year, a fifteen-minute short film entitled Captain Zero: Into the Abyss Part II, focusing on a teenage superhero named Xerxes Hughes who tries to uncover why he keeps blacking out from a demon which is a “physical manifestation of all his deep-seated insecurities.” They are aiming for a 92-minute feature film entitled Captain Zero: The Movie in 2027, an animated series with five potential seasons, with thirty-minute episodes, in 2028, along with other series like: Space Friends in 2029, The Necromancer & The Realm of the Unreal in 2029, and two with TBA dates (Bounty Hunter: Strippers in Space and Nyx: The Dream Warrior).

Otherwise, Kiana Khansmith created a magical girl indie animated pilot, entitled Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl, which centers on a 15-year-old Black girl named Aika who does not want to be a magical girl. I featured it in one of my newsletters, calling it a “wonderful indie animated pilot/animatic…centering around a Black girl named Aika.” Khansmith’s pilot is not alone. In late January 2024, Orange Blossoms Studios, founded by Pearl Low, put forward a pilot entitled Wheels & Roses, which the studio describes as “an animated Sailor Moon meets roller derby coming of age story.” It garnered over $100,000 on Kickstarter. The studio aims to create a “fully animated 22-minute pilot episode,” and wants to center diversity in their stories, whether racial or gender diversity. Kai and Sahara are among the five protagonists (others are Bree, Nina, and Danielle), with a certain dynamic between them. Like Khansmith’s pilot, which had laudatory articles in The Gamer and Polygon, the series was received positively. Both Khansmith’s pilot and Low’s pilot-in development are very apt with so many magical girl series these days, including at least three this year alone (You and Idol Pretty Cure, Witchy Pretty Cure!! Mirai Days, and Wonderful PreCure!).

The same can be said for The Ebony Witch, which is based on an ongoing webcomic by Poppihin/Lydiah Mwangi. A crowdfunding campaign by her back in 2023 for this series, which enters on a Black female “Witch, her demon teddy bear and Cat knight” who go on a quest to find magic, was unsuccessful, only raised 73% of the money needed. She previously had a series entitled Kawia’s Adventure, centering on two Black women, but cancelled it. Later, a second crowdfunding campaign for The Ebony Witch was put forward, by Poppihin (who is also an animator), for this series, garnering over $12,000. According to the most recent update, there are plans to finish the series by October, which is good to hear. It will be releasing on YouTube.

Just as promising is a project, still in development, entitled Master. That pilot (and potential series), currently being written, and is in pre-production. It follows Olivia, a young Black woman with superpowers, hoping to lead her family to a better life, but realizes the life she’s trying to leave is “the one she should be fighting for.” Peter Ramsay is the executive producer, while Black male animator Jamaal Bradley (known for his short film Canvas) is the creator. Steamroller Studios produces it. This project is developing alongside efforts by Black animators like Prettlophine Cotton and Brandon Reed. The latter runs Cartoon Connect, a YouTube channel which creates “short cartoons about funny scenarios, real life experiences, & trending videos and topics,” all centering on Black people. The former is the creator of Zipped Up: The Animated Pilot. The Kickstarter for the pilot calls it “a musical, multiverse-hopping adventure” which follows Alejandra, Nelly (a Black man), and their crew. It has garnered over a third of its funds so far.

Apart from Master, Zipped Up, and The Ebony Witch, there’s promising pilots such as Indigo and You Still Don’t Know Me, and others like Pritty: The Animation. The latter centers on a Black teen who “steps out of his comfort zone, and overcomes his fear of the deep end,” and has garnered over $114,000. The latter is after it was praised for re-imagining a queer coming-of-age story with replacement of Black trauma with “Black joy and discovery through the lens of an intentional Black experience.” Interestingly, the story was originally going to be a live-action film, but due to the pandemic ending production, it was decided to re-imagine the story as an animation instead! There is promise in other Black animators too. For instance, filmmaker and animator Christopher Wade, is creating a young adult action-adventure fantasy film entitled The Will of Monsters, and a young Black male animator named Wisdom Nunn is creating Bob’s World. It has reached over three episodes, with more on the way! Furthermore, the creator of Maze Animations, which creates series like Snickerdoodle, is a Black man, as one video seemingly hinted.

There are some indie animations that feature Black characters, but are not produced by Black people, that are worth noting. For instance, Robert J. Preston’s Fighting All Odds, an indie coming-of-age animated series about a deaf girl named Jackie, which seemingly features Black characters, like Amara Jones, and has had no postings on social media since May of last year. However, a post by an animator on LinkedIn seven months ago hints that this series is still in development. The same may be the case for Allissoon Lockhart’s Battle of the Bands, which is still in development, and is a 2D-animated mature comedy and fantasy. If completed, it will feature a few Black characters, like Kasumi Kumagai (voiced by Erika Ishii), Rhett Vadillo (voiced by Matt Di Panni), and Jules Joliet (voiced by Arin Hanson). Lockhart also happens to be 2D Line Producer for Knights of Guinevere, an animated series co-created by Dana Terrace (known for The Owl House), John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus, for indie animation powerhouse Glitch Productions. [2]

Similarly, Far-Fetched, an animated pilot (then presumed series) in production by Dave Capdevielle and Ashley Nichols, both of whom worked on the Hazbin Hotel pilot, has a Black protagonist, specifically Piper Stubbs, who is voiced by Dani Chambers, and said to be an extrovert who is skilled with playing guitar, and tries to keep those in the band (Sesamoid) together, even if she neglects “her own needs and standing in harm’s way with her trusty six-string,” according to the official website. This animated horror comedy about a “rock band of misfits filming a music video that’s so lame, monsters try to kill them,” has garnered well-beyond its stated crowdfunding goal. This series is not alone in featuring Black characters.

For example, a new sci-fi series, entitled Thyste, and created by Eva Bretz, is about two friends who fight alongside one another, but have differing views. It features Miniya Greene as Roarke, Maiya Jannah as Raena, and some others as music composers (Nicolas Urricelqui and Gabriel Arvelo). One of the protagonists, Roarke, is a Black woman. In another example, a green-haired character in Sunnyside: Royals of Cora, an “upcoming animated musical pilot” about magical heirs, as the show’s Bluesky account puts it, is a Black (Ethiopian) woman named Princess Hazel.

Black characters are featured in many other indie productions. One example is a Black woman named Gail Vendaval in Wild Card, the self-described “indie, adult animated murder mystery series,” which is a mix of a comic and animation, while supported by crowdfunding, like many of these series. Another example is Mason Giggleham in the indie animated series Alpha Betas, which has not posted any new videos on YouTube for years, meaning it is slowly fading away. The same can be said for series, created by J.M. Collado, like Finding Alyx, which was described as “a pilot episode about a child who learns the art of self expression through his alternative neighbors,” and said to be a work in progress, with animation still continuing, and ending production in 2023. This did not happen. It features various Black characters, like Odin, Andromeda, and Phoenix Rosario, and Orion Titus.

In prior years, other pilots, with Black characters, have been among the almost 900 pilots listed on a YouTube playlist, noting series created by independent studios and/or artists, including the following thirty examples:

1. Myths in Manhattan [in 2024] (only storyboards)
2. The Homework Half Hour [in 2024] [live-action/animation hybrid]
3. TSA Don’t Play [in 2024]
4. Alligator Springs [in 2024]
5. Life of Edgar Jay [in 2024]
6. Ambatron [in 2024] (Black man becomes a cyborg)
7. Mcconnell Academy [in 2023]
8. Bad Marriage [in 2023]
9. Saturday Foursome [in 2023]
10. Smitty’s World Cartoon [in 2023]
11. Daddy’s Love [in 2023] (by same person who made Saving Silver City)
12. Dystopia [in 2022] (short film)
13. Cell Charge [in 2022]
14. Wesley Learns to Invest [in 2022]
15. Flatmates [in 2022]
16. Fish Get’s Revenge [in 2021]
17. Gwalo’s Road to Internet Infamy [in 2021]
18. Lovers in Crime [in 2021]
19. Ina [in 2021] [telling people to get the COVID-19 vaccine]
20. Scram [in 2020]
21. Saving Silver City [in 2020]
22. Malika [in 2019]
23. Watch Out for Mr. Wrinkle [in 2019]
24. Teen-High [in 2019] (over 1 hour long and part of a longer series)
25. Rock and Riot [in 2016]
26. Final Space pilot [in 2016]
27. Urbance [in 2016]
28. Bella and Tina are Time Travelers [in 2016]
29. Niewich and Friends [in 2015]
30. Sweet & Sour [in 2011] (part of a series which had three other episodes) [3]

I do not know where Black animation, particularly animation made by Black people (and primarily for Black people), goes from here, but there is some promise in indie productions, with a likely reduction by megaconglomerates in series seen as “diverse.” As Pearl Low, who created Wheels & Roses (noted earlier in this post), and who previously worked on Craig of the Creek, put it, with indie production, “there’s a lot more freedom in expression,” allowing people to pick who they work with, their aesthetic, and no compromise on vision. Despite the limited money available, Low still tried to pay union wages (a constant criticism is that indie productions underpay people, which some have alleged is the case with indie animation powerhouse Spindlehorse), worked to represent queer characters, and said it was a challenge to promote the series, with rampant A.I. scraping on social media.

Regardless of what happens to Black animated series, whether they are produced for big companies or are produced independently, with the poignant battle over cultural values within the U.S. and other Western countries, there’s no doubt that telling the Black story will remain important in animation for days, weeks, months, and years to come.

Notes

[1] Those series currently airing and with Black characters include: Hot Wheels Let’s Race, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, My Adventures with Superman, Invincible, Lil Kev, Batman: Caped Crusader, StuGo, Common Side Effects, RoboGobo, Lazarus, Quantum Heroes Dinoster, Win or Lose, Oh My God…Yes!, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, Castlevania: Nocturne, Creature Commandos, RWBY (whenever it returns), Big Mouth, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Iyanu, Good Times, Lyla in the Loop, and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. Otherwise, there are various series, with Black characters, which ended between 2020 and this year, specifically Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020), Glitch Techs (2020), Fire Force (2020), The Rocketeer (2020), Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure (2020), Elena of Avalor (2020), Haikyu!! (2020), The Boss Baby: Back in Business (2020), Steven Universe Future (2020), Doc McStuffins (2020), She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2020), Mike Tyson Mysteries (2020), Carole and Tuesday (2020), Spirit Riding Free (2020), Lazor Wulf (2021), The Last Kids on Earth (2021), The Promised Neverland (2021), Wild Kratts (2021), Super Sema (2021), Snoopy in Space (2021), gen:LOCK (2021), Super Crooks (2021), Carmen Sandiego (2021), DC Super Hero Girls (2021), Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2021), Yasuke (2021), We the People (2021), Fast & Furious Spy Racers (2021), Nella the Princess Knight (2021), High Guardian Spice (2021), Kid Cosmic (2022), Esme & Roy (2022), Karma’s World (2022), Young Justice (2022), Shenmue (2022), Lycoris Recoil (2022), Action Pack (2022), Duncanville (2022), The Snoopy Show (2023), Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix (2023), Harriet the Spy (2023), My Dad the Bounty Hunter (2023), Supa Team 4 (2023), Young Love (2023), Central Park (2023), Disenchantment (2023),The Owl House (2023), Kizazi Moto (2023), Birdie Wing (2023), Eureka! (2023), Attack on Titan (2023), Ada Twist, Scientist (2023), Dee & Friends in Oz (2024), Velma (2024), Iwájú (2024), Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes (2024), Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld (2024), Jessica’s Big Little World (2024), Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2024), Hailey’s On It! (2024), Suicide Squad Isekai (2024), The Ghost and Molly McGee (2024), Star Trek: Lower Decks (2024), What If…? (2024), Arcane (2024), The Dragon Prince (2024), Hilda (2024), Moon Girl (2025), Craig of the Creek (2025), and Hamster & Gretel (2025). It is likely that the animated musical comedy series, Battu, based on Chaz Bottoms animated short, Battu: An Animated Musical, and made by him and Matthew A. Cherry, was cancelled due to the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, just like Final Space.

[2] Sadly, LimeLight, which began production under Uphoria Animaton Studio, in January 2021, and centers on a young Black woman named Ashira GoldenFire (voiced by Jazzy Greene) in New Orleans who tries to make it in the music industry, seems to have fallen by the wayside, with postings about it going back to 2023. If that series is ever produced it would feature Ashira helped by her friend Cheryl Stone (voiced by Zoie E. Absher) and both go through hardships, while Ashira’s life gets worse when a voodoo man named Carter Sillver (voiced by Jack Kelly Savage), enters her life.

[3] The creator of this pilot, Matt Wilson, featured Black characters in some of his other indie animations like The Puzzle Hunters, Grab Bag, Princess Ness, and other animations on his YouTube channel.