Pencilmation is an American YouTube channel and series known for uploading videos of 30 minutes, which are produced and directed by series creator, Ross Bollinger (born: November 15, 1987 ) who is a cartoonist.
History[]
Ross created the Pencilmation YouTube channel on January 31, 2007 and uploaded his first video two years later on June 14, 2009 titled "The First Pencilmation." After it was published, he starting making more videos on the channel. The series mainly focuses on a character named Hank who has been featured in many of Ross' animations.
Trivia[]
- The channel surpassed seven billion views on January 31, 2020, the channel's 13th anniversary.
- The show was created in 2004 on the Newgrounds site, but started reuploading their episodes on YouTube in 2009.
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: November 1, 2017
- 2 million subscribers: March 4, 2018
- 3 million subscribers: May 18, 2018
- 4 million subscribers: July 11, 2018
- 5 million subscribers: August 30, 2018
- 6 million subscribers: October 16, 2018
- 7 million subscribers: December 22, 2018
- 8 million subscribers: February 16, 2019
- 9 million subscribers: April 16, 2019
- 10 million subscribers: May 27, 2019
- 11 million subscribers: July 10, 2019
- 12 million subscribers: August 11, 2019
- 13 million subscribers: November 25, 2019
- 14 million subscribers: January 18, 2020
- 15 million subscribers: March 22, 2020
- 16 million subscribers: June 16, 2020
- 17 million subscribers: September 1, 2020
- 18 million subscribers: January 5, 2021
- 19 million subscribers: June 1, 2021
- 20 million subscribers: December 2022
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: February 1, 2018
- 2 billion views: July 20, 2018
- 3 billion views: November 7, 2018
- 4 billion views: March 9, 2019
- 5 billion views: June 14, 2019
- 6 billion views: September 28, 2019
- 7 billion views: January 31, 2020
- 8 billion views: July 13, 2020
- 9 billion views: November 9, 2020
- 10 billion views: July 1, 2021
- 11 billion views: 2022