Okay so, state of affairs, here.
Firstly, @ChannelNaufal2025 keeps @'ing me in confusing ways that have appeared to suggest stuff like I requested a given upload from them when that was definitely never the case. I never had this interaction with their channel. At least, that's what "request: TCAA" or "request by: TCAA" reads like. Maybe it's a language thing? Like, I don't want to be mean or anything to someone just making their little channel, it's just that objectively what they're seemingly stating on my behalf isn't true. I hope it's okay to just set the record straight about something that seems like it's representing this channel when that's not the case in actuality.
Secondly, on a similar note... Someone ripped off my channel? Like, they called it "The Collective Animation Archive 2" with the exact same aesthetics and bio like it was legit? And what they put on there is their own custom McDonalds commercials with, let's just say, zero budget editing, in the nicest of ways?
youtube.com/@thecollectiveanimationarch2/
Again, I don't wanna be mean about this, I'm more amused than anything, that this channel I've just used for archiving animation content somehow begat its own imitator. Like, this is the first proper instance of someone going out of their way to specifically imitate something I did. That I just searched up my channel one night to suddenly see there was someone casually sequelising it like it was nothing. So I honestly have to thank this person for the sheer amusement this has given me. That which inspires me to keep going, to keep creating stuff, in the hopes that some day there'll be even more people that are in someway inspired by something that I've done.
Anyways, maybe I'll revisit this channel whilst cataloguing Aardman's advertising work on its fan Wikis, one of which I'm actually the admin of. Until then, take care.
6 - 0
So, this channel, huh? And hello if you're here from the Rotten documentary.
So I've sorta been focusing on other things for a while, and I've just kind of let this channel stay as is. Didn't help that I'd also get a little obsessive compulsive about the quality of some of the uploads being flawed in some way, mostly ones I needed to edit first, and how I'd wanna approach future ones to be "flawless" as archival material, like the Pixar ads (not all the MIPR videos) technically being exported at like 192kbps audio instead of 320kbps audio or something and only realising after. Stuff like that, but with like a lot of videos to recheck. It's a bit draining.
And it's crazy because the channel nearly has 10K subs and keeps getting comment notifications despite my absence. I still kinda have an interest in this stuff, like collecting Aardman commercials, but I've also got other things I've been struggling to focus on as well. I could totally still pop in every now and then just to put out something good enough from Vegas that I find interesting, but if this channel continues to frequently be on the backburner, please understand. I have a ton of other interests that I struggle to juggle as is.
Though I might as well shamelessly plug my Twitter and other YouTube account if this is the highest amount of followers I have on any internet account, both under @TomTheyy. I'm actually active on there, and I hope to use them to show some cool things I've been working on when they're ready!
23 - 2
A variety of animation subjects are collected here including content of Cartoon Network, Aardman Animations, Pixar Animation Studios, Threshold Animation Studios and 2000s UK nostalgia. They are hopefully edited to have proper aspect ratio, video/audio sync and cutting from their original source, as having the best quality for these pieces is integral.
Programs used:
-VideoPad (for editing footage as described)
-4K Video Downloader (for, well downloading YT videos for footage)
-Handbrake (for ripping or lazily converting footage)
Footage I'm aware people have but unfortunately haven't uploaded at least yet:
-The Animators: Kitchen Table Kinema (Neil of ukanimation.blogspot.co.uk/)