Alan Becker

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Alan Becker (born 1989) is an animator from Dublin, Ohio who is best known for creating the "Animator vs. Animation" series on Newgrounds and YouTube.

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Career

In 2006, at the age of 17, Becker posted "Animator vs. Animation" video to sharing site Newgrounds, where the video instantly went viral and led to it being reuploaded on various social media websites, including YouTube. The success of the video led him to create two sequels, "Animator vs. Animation II" and "Animator vs. Animation III" before moving on to work on other projects. Becker intended make the third iteration the last in the series, stating that he "wanted to make sure that no sequel could come out of that". But he has stated that his animation teacher had inspired him to continue YouTube. His fourth video, "Animator vs. Animation IV", received over $11,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter.

Becker has recently created works related to the video game Minecraft such as the video "Animation vs. Minecraft" and a world map based off the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro.

Becker also created a series of "how-to" videos regarding animation based off the "12 basic principles of animation" Which Was Uploaded On his 2'nd channel "Alan Becker Tutorials". The most popular on his channel is the video "Animator vs. Animation IV (original)", which has more than 75 million views. In August 2017, he uploaded "Animation vs. YouTube" to YouTube.

On November 21, 2017, Becker announced that he was working with Insanity Games to create a card game based on the animation.