Max Gilardi
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January 28, 1988 Massachusetts | ||||||||
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hotdiggedydemon | ||||||||
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| Channel | Hotdiggedydemon | ||||||||
| Years active | 2007–present | ||||||||
| Genre | Comedy | ||||||||
| Subscribers | 1 million | ||||||||
| Total views | 186 million | ||||||||
| Network | MakerGen (Maker Studios) | ||||||||
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Max Gilardi (born January 28, 1988)[1][2] is an American animator, voice actor, and YouTuber. He is best known for his "PONY.MOV" web series, a parody of the popular children's animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Early life and education
Gilardi was born in Massachusetts in 1988.[2][3] He attended the Art Institute of Boston briefly before dropping out.[4]
Career
Gilardi, under the name "HotDiggedyDemon", first started creating flash animations in the early 2000s on Newgrounds.com.[3] In 2007, he began uploading his work to his YouTube channel as well. That year, he created the "Jerry" series, a series of animations detailing the life of a man named Jerry.[2] In 2010, he created the "Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!" series, also known as "WGJ4K", featuring video game-based humor.
From 2011 to 2013, he gained notability for releasing his six-part video parody of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "PONY.MOV", an adult dark comedy animated web series in the art style of The Ren & Stimpy Show.[5][6] The series grew as a spin-off of Gilardi's Tumblr webcomic, "Ask Jappleack", and each video highlights a different character from the main cast of the television series. In addition to creating animations, he co-hosted the Wisenheimers podcast with fellow animator Yotam Perel from 2010 to 2012.[7]
Gilardi has over one million subscribers on YouTube.[8] The majority of his videos are self-made: written, animated, and voiced[4] by himself. In his more recent projects, he has experimented with 3D animation.[4][9] On September 2, 2016, Gilardi launched a new YouTube series titled "Brain Dump" in which he reviews movies, often satirically.[10]
References
- ↑ Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (January 29, 2016). "Thanks for all the birthday drawings ..." (Tweet). Retrieved May 21, 2016 – via Twitter.
- 1 2 3 "Gilardi Animates Jerry’s Daily Grind". Cold Hard Flash. June 27, 2007. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- 1 2 McCloud, Skye (May 5, 2004). "[ NG Mag ]- Max Gilardi". Newgrounds. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Hotdiggedydemon • Frequently Asked Questions!". Hotdiggedydemon.com. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ↑ Woerner, Meredith (June 26, 2012). "Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys's Pinkie Pie a sex tape". io9. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Stohs-Krause, Hilary (December 26, 2013). "BEST OF 2013: 'Brony' fandom carves out space for young men to enjoy friendship ... and cartoon ponies". Netnebraska.org. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Wisenheimers by Wisenheimers on iTunes". iTunes. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ "hotdiggedydemon YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". Socialblade.com. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ↑ Person, Chris (August 19, 2013). "King of the Hill, In Eye-Popping 3D". Kotaku. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ↑ Max G [@hotdiggedydemon] (September 2, 2016). "Please watch my new clickbate / movie review show, BRAIN DUMP! ..." (Tweet). Retrieved November 7, 2016 – via Twitter.