James Benson

James Benson is a Animator and Gamer famous for making the Half-Life one trailer all by himself and Dance Fortress 2. He also is a developer in the game Firewatch.

Rise into popularity
When James started youtube back in 2009, he started by making small animations of the tf2 classes do small dances. The reason he was making this was to prepare for his project " Dance Fortress 2 ". Once Dance Fortress launched his channel instantly gained a fanbase. Afterwards he started to do Half-Life animations of Vortigaunt walks and strider battles. Then on May 28th 2011 James launched his fan made Half-Life 1 trailer gaining really good views for his channel. After the Fanmade trailer he made a couple more Half-Life animations along side with Team Fortress 2 Taunts. He then started to work with the Firewatch team to make Firewatch launching the trailer of the game on November 15th 2014.

James disappearance from youtube.
After making three videos of Ori and the Blind Forest Reel's he disappeared for three years. Leaving his channel to be abandoned.

Trivia

 * When James did his Half-Life Fanmade Trailer and Dance Fortress 2 Video's he did it all by himself by not using SFM but using the models themselves.