Egoraptor

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Egoraptor

Arin Hanson in January 2014.
Born Arin Hanson
(1987-01-06) January 6, 1987
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Residence Glendale, California
Nationality American
Occupation Animator, cartoonist, voice actor, internet personality
Years active 2006 - present
Known for Awesome Series, Game Grumps, Sequelitis
Spouse(s) Suzy Berhow
(m. 2013-present)
Website
egoraptor.net, youtube.com/egoraptor, egoraptor.newgrounds.com

Arin Hanson (born January 6, 1987), more prominently known by his internet pseudonym, Egoraptor, is an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and internet personality. He is known for his animated webseries, The Awesome Series, in which Hanson parodies various video game franchises, including Pokémon, Metal Gear, Ninja Gaiden, and Final Fantasy.[1] The series originally aired on Newgrounds. Hanson occasionally participates in sketch comedy and collaborations with fellow animators such as Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan, Rodrigo "El-Cid" Huerta, and Chris "Oney" O'Neill. He is also known for being the co-star of popular YouTube Let's Play webseries, Game Grumps,[2] as well as producing and singing/rapping in video game parody band Starbomb.

Early life

Hanson was born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. He attended Wellington High School in Wellington, Florida. He has stated during various Game Grumps episodes that he is a high school dropout, and did not attend college.

Career

Animation

Hanson first joined Newgrounds, creating an account under the name of "Egoraptor" on September 16, 2001. After joining, he submitted his first Awesome Series animation, "Metal Gear Awesome", on February 23, 2006.[3] Hanson went on to upload various comedic video game-related animations, as well as four separate animated webseries (of which he then uploaded to YouTube); The Awesome Series, short animated videos that parody video games, Lemon 'n Bill, a comedic series in which an anthropomorphic bullet and lemon get trapped within video game worlds, Girlchan in Paradise!!, a series that parodies Shōnen anime, and Sequelitis, a series in which Hanson compares a video game and its sequel along with minor animations throughout the video.[4] Hanson was also an early storyboard artist on the show Axe Cop.

Due to the success of "Metal Gear Awesome", Hanson was approached by MTV to produce animated shorts in the style of "Metal Gear Awesome" for MTV's online video gaming show, The G-Hole.[5] MTV gave Hanson four guidelines: the shorts must be poorly drawn, the shorts must have violence, the shorts must have swearing, and the shorts must be 30–40 seconds long. MTV also restricted him from submitting these movies to anywhere but The G-Hole, a restriction which Hanson constantly fought believing that all of his fans should have easy access to his work.[6] He went on to create 1 to 3 "Awesome" movies a month for The G-Hole before the show was put on hold and eventually canceled. It is now survived by its sister blog, MTV Multiplayer, of which the management has opted not to include any new "Awesome" movies due to budget restraints.[7] The Awesome Series continues online, on Hanson's YouTube channel.

Voice acting

In 2006, Hanson provided the voice of Bruce Banner in the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance as part of a competition held by Activision, however his voice was only used in the PlayStation 3, Wii and PlayStation Portable versions of the game.[8] In 2009, Hanson provided the voice for the character John Gore in the video game Minigore,[9] and later reprised the role in the 2011 remake of Death Rally.[10]

In 2012, Hanson provided his voice for the game Detective Grimoire: Adventure Game, a Kickstarter project which was successfully funded on August 3, 2012.[11]

Game Grumps

In late July 2012[12] Hanson and his colleague Jon "JonTron" Jafari, known for his video game critiquing webseries, JonTron,[13] started a joint YouTube channel called "GameGrumps", hosting a show of the same name, Game Grumps. On this show, both Hanson and Jafari played video games that were typically retro or nostalgic in style.[14] This new channel was instantly widely acclaimed by fans of both Hanson's animation channel and Jafari's channel, garnering over 100,000 subscribers in the first 48 hours. However, in late June 2013, just under a year after the show's inception, Jafari left Game Grumps to focus on his solo work[15] and was replaced by Leigh Daniel "Danny" Avidan, also known as "Danny Sexbang" of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party.[16]

Collaborations

Hansons has appeared as a contestant on the Sony game show, The Tester, during its third season, as a community-voted contestant, but was eliminated in the third episode after being accused of using the show to promote himself.[17] When asked about his experience, and whether or not he would do it again, he replied negatively.[18]

Hanson appeared as a contestant in the third season of the dance competition webseries Dance Showdown, alongside professional dancer, Maxine Hupy.[19] Hanson was announced the winner of Dance Showdown Season 3.[20]

Hanson has also done narration work for several episodes of Did You Know Gaming?,[21] a webseries dedicated to video game trivia, including episodes covering Star Fox, Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, Mega Man, Pokémon and Kirby.

Hanson has also voiced Jason Morris, Mittens, Chief of Cats and Dicky O'Prick in the "We Are Native American Cats" animation by Max "HotDiggedyDemon" Gilardi.[22] He also performed voicework for another creation of Gilardi's, acting as Rarity in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic parody series PONY.MOV. In the first installment of the series, "APPLE.MOV", he also voiced Pinkie Pie, although later installments do not feature him providing her voice. In addition, he has worked with many other various animators, including EsquireBob (known for his 3D Game Grumps animations) and Explosm (known for their popular webcomic Cyanide & Happiness). He has also been featured in the fourth "asdfmovie", created by Thomas Ridgewell.[23] He has been featured in several videos for the website ScrewAttack, including a collaboration with James Rolfe and Keith Apicary.[24] In 2008, Hanson worked together with animator RubberRoss on the animated webseries Gamer Tonight where he provided the voice of the host, which was broadcast on the Australian television show Good Game.[25]

Music

Main article: Starbomb (album)

Influence

In the video game The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, Hanson appears in the level "Blizzard of Balls" as a hidden character where he provides the Nerd with items. The Nerd will then say "Now I'm Not-So-Grump!", a reference to Hanson's show, Game Grumps.[26]

Popular animator and collaborator Spazkidin3d, who has appeared on the Game Grumps spin-off show "Table Flip",[27] created a tribute video to him called "Egorapture", which references their similar animation styles. The video was voiced by Hanson, and has received over 2,600,000 views on YouTube.[28]

Personal life

Hanson lives in Glendale, California, along with his wife, Suzy Berhow, who animates with him and also cohosts the Game Grumps segment "Steam Rolled", as well as two webseries with Maker Studios subsidiary Polaris, "Hunting Monsters" and "Table Flip".[27][29] His father, Lloyd "Paparaptor" Hanson, is a musician, and runs the website OldFartsWithGuitars.com, where he discusses music and occasionally other members of the Hanson family; Hanson created two Flash films ("Happy Birthday Dad!" and "It's Dad's Birthday Again!") as birthday gifts for him.

His mother, Maurette Hanson, runs Healing Horse Therapy Center. It is dedicated to providing on-site equine-assisted therapeutic and psycho-therapeutic wellness programming to combat veterans, survivors of military sexual trauma, special needs persons, and all individuals needing a safe and nurturing environment to heal from mental, physical and emotional challenges.[30]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Awesome Series". Egoraptor. Retrieved 2014-19-01. 
  2. ↑ Amini, Tina (2013-03-01). "Watch This Silly Source Filmmaker Re-Creation Of Two YouTubers Absolutely Losing It". Kotaku. Retrieved 2013-12-26. 
  3. ↑ Egoraptor's newgrounds page: http://egoraptor.newgrounds.com/
  4. ↑ Ponce, Tony (2012-03-03). "Makin' faces and talking game design with Egoraptor". Destructoid. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  5. ↑ "Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson Interview". jfreedan. YouTube. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  6. ↑ "Investigating Anime". Carey Martell. Veoh. Retrieved 2014-16-01. 
  7. ↑ "Arin Hanson - Voice Actor". Arin Hanson. Voice123. Retrieved 2014-18-01. 
  8. ↑ "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance". VGFacts. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  9. ↑ Zibreg, Christian (2009-09-10). "Review: Minigore for iPhone – unleash the beast within". Geek.com. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  10. ↑ "Death Rally". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  11. ↑ "Detective Grimoire: Adventure Game Win/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android". Kickstarter. Retrieved 2014-13-01. 
  12. ↑ "Game Grumps Announcement". Egoraptor. YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  13. ↑ "JonTronShow". YouTube. Retrieved January 18, 2014. 
  14. ↑ Ponce, Tony (2012-07-18). "Egoraptor & JonTron twiddle their sticks, play some games". Destructoid. Retrieved 2013-12-26. 
  15. ↑ "Ode to Jon". Game Grumps. YouTube. Retrieved December 23, 2013. 
  16. ↑ Amini, Tina (2013-06-26). "Fans Are Upset Over YouTube Duo 'Game Grumps' Break-Up". Kotaku. Retrieved 2013-12-25. 
  17. ↑ Noble, McKinley. "Sony’s Utter Hypocrisy: Egoraptor & The Tester". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2014-1-9. 
  18. ↑ Valentaten, Daav. "Egoraptor: Tester Entry Was "A Joke"". N4G. Retrieved 2014-1-9. 
  19. ↑ Klima, Jeff (October 30, 2013). "Lindsey Stirling Talks Competing On DanceOn's 'Dance Showdown' Season 3, New Album [Interview]". New Media Rockstars. Retrieved 2014-14-01. 
  20. ↑ "Dance Showdown Season 3 Finale". DanceOn. Retrieved 2014-28-01. 
  21. ↑ "Things You Might Have Not Known About Starfox". Dueling Analogs. 08-06-2012. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  22. ↑ "WeAreNativeAmericanCats". Max Gilardi. Newgrounds. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  23. ↑ "asdfmovie4". TomSka. YouTube. Retrieved 2014-21-01. 
  24. ↑ "This Weird VHS Tape We Found". ScrewAttack Entertainment LLC. Retrieved 2014-17-01. 
  25. ↑ "11 February 2008 Gamer Tonight". ABC. 2008-11-02. Retrieved 2014-11-01. 
  26. ↑ "Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures". VGFacts. Retrieved 2014-10-01. 
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Table Flip: Flip tables with the Game Grumps!". Maker Studios. Retrieved 2014-17-01. 
  28. ↑ "Egorapture". Spazkidin3d. YouTube. Retrieved 2014-17-01. 
  29. ↑ "Hunting Monsters". Polaris. YouTube. Retrieved 2014-17-01. 
  30. ↑ "I WON!! A big THANK YOU!! And Charities!!". Egoraptor. YouTube. Retrieved 2014-01-02. 

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