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---
layout: base_page
title: "CommTech 11: My Inspirations"
header_text: "My Inspirations"
---
<div class="card" style="margin-bottom: 2rem;">
<div class="card-header"><strong>Note</strong></div>
<div class="card-body">
<p class="card-text">
The people here are all YouTubers, as they are my main source of high-effort media. I generally don't watch
actual movies and TV shows. For some reason, I used to be pretty sensitive to them. I still am, just not as much.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<section class="ccard card-right">
<div class="content">
<h2>Alan Becker</h2>
<p>
Alan Becker is an ani­mator and ani­mation direc­tor on YouTube. His rise to fame began with a video
titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npTC6b5-yvM">Ani­mator vs. Ani­mation</a>
and ever since, he's been buil­ding con­tent off of ani­mated stick fi­gures play­ing around
on his com­puter and in video games. I personally ad­mire how he's taken such simple cha­rac­ters
and given them such depth.
</p>
<p>
He isn't doing this alone, though. He now has a sizable ani­mation team,
a few sound desi­gners and a com­poser helping him out. Many of the team's recent works can be
best de­scribed as cine­matic mas­ter­pie­ces. If you'd like to check out his work, the link
is
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@alanbecker">here</a>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="ctr-container">
<figure>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/imgs/influences/alan-becker.png %}" alt="Alan, posing in a brick-walled room.">
</figure>
</div>
</section>
<hr>
<section class="ccard card-left">
<div class="content">
<h2>Kevin & Luke Lerdwichagul</h2>
<p>
This duo of ani­mators-turned-show­runners started with a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SMG4">meme
chan­nel</a>
filled with memey parody videos invol­ving Mario, Luigi, and se­veral ori­ginal charac­ters. They
would then
con­so­li­date their efforts into a com­pany called <a>Glitch Pro­duc­tions</a>, where
they began run­ning more
serious
ani­mated web­series. Today, they have suc­cess­fully ran 3 sea­sons of one of their own
series, <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHovnlOusNLj_bSwvpE3ycI4iHuJDRCps"><i>Meta Runner</i></a>, and
are
cur­rent­ly backing ano­ther show, <a
href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHovnlOusNLiJz3sm0d5i2Evwa2LDLdrg"><i>Murder Drones</i></a>, written
and directed by fellow animator Liam Vic­kers. I appreciate them giving other creators a creative out­let
they would not have had otherwise.
</p>
</div>
<div class="ctr-container">
<figure>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/imgs/influences/kevin-luke-lerdwichagul.png %}"
alt="Kevin & Luke, presumably preparing to film a video.">
<figcaption>Left: Luke, Right: Kevin</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
</section>
<hr>
<section class="ccard card-right">
<div class="content">
<h2>Cary and Michael Huang</h2>
<p>
This duo started the animated webseries <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_49oVhJEpM"><i>Battle For Dream
Island</i></a> at the age of 12, and have kept it alive well into their early 20's. The afore­men­tioned show
and its later de­scen­dants are centered around person­ified house­hold ob­jects who compete for a
prize. If the art style appears even slightly familiar, you may recognize those same mouth gra­phics plas­tered all
over all sorts of ran­dom YouTube thumb­nails. I admire their per­sis­tence in keeping their show alive, despite
several bouts of burn­out.
</p>
<p>
In addition to their ani­mation channel, Cary (right­most on the photo) also runs his own solo
chan­nel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@carykh">(carykh)</a>, where he posts
about ran­dom pro­gram­ming pro­jects he's worked on. I per­son­ally found such silly
pro­jects inte­res­ting, and it was through Cary's solo chan­nel that I discovered their
ani­mation chan­nel.
</p>
</div>
<div class="ctr-container">
<figure>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/imgs/influences/cary-michael-huang.png %}"
alt="Cary and Michael Huang, with Alan Becker at VidCon 2023.">
<figcaption>
This picture was taken at VidCon 2023 with Alan Becker. <br>
Left: Michael, Middle: Alan Becker, Right: Cary <br>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
</section>
<hr>
<section class="ccard card-left">
<div class="content">
<h2>Grant Sanderson</h2>
<p>
Grant runs the math education channel <a href="https://youtube.com/channel/@3blue1brown">3Blue1Brown</a>.
He's made videos on a wide variety of gener­ally com­pli­cated topics, such as cal­cu­lus, linear alge­bra, and
Four­ier ana­lysis. What sets his videos apart is how he breaks down these con­cepts into simple terms that
a mere high school stu­dent can under­stand. I admire the way he teaches and strive to learn from his ways
when I teach (I did teach at Computer Science Club this year, and will do so again next year).
</p>
</div>
<div class="ctr-container">
<figure>
<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/imgs/influences/grant-sanderson.png %}" alt="Grant Sanderson">
</figure>
</div>
</section>