Animutation

Animutation is a form of art using Macromedia Flash to create pop culture influenced videos of foreign-language, independent, or (more rarely) mainstream music. The style was invented and popularized by Neil Cicierega (a.k.a. Trapezoid) from Kingston, Massachusetts at the age of 13. The genre is currently expanding to include many other Flash artists. Independent musicians are turning to animutation artists and Flash-based music videos to promote their work for the Internet community. Currently a cult following near that of the also-popular YTMNDs, the genre has the potential to become mainstream within the next few years.

History

In an early Salon interview, Cicierega said that he was originally inspired by "insane Japanese commercials." The original animutations, "Hyakugojyuuichi" and "Lesko's Revenge", both based on Japanese Pokémon music, were made by Neil Cicierega in February of 2001, and quickly became a small Internet fad. The style was adopted by others, and the term "fanimutation," to refer to the works by other artists, was adopted. See external link "Mutant Genius" for more history.

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February - 2001

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