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The art of Felix Colgrave

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Felix Colgrave (born 29 November 1992) is an Australian director, animator, cartoonist, filmmaker, artist and musician. Distribution of Colgrave's work has, to date, been focused on YouTube where his channel has 1.12 million subscribers. Colgrave mainly uses After Effects for his animations.

Colgrave has been involved in several commercial projects, having worked for clients such as Vice and Comedy Central, as well as for Trip Tank and Off the Air series. He provided some in-game animations for Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 4.

Colgrave's YouTube channel has twenty six of his 2D surreal, psychedelic, animations, half of which have over a million views each. "DOUBLE KING", has over 30 million views as of November 2019. Colgrave also created the music for the DOUBLE KING animation, which he released as an album known as Royal Noises from Dead Kingdoms.

His animation "Man Spaghetti", has been featured on the animation website known as Cartoon Brew Colgrave has directed a number of music videos, including videos for DJ Mustard, Nicki Minaj & Jeremih's "Don't Hurt Me" Fever The Ghost's "SOURCE", and Shoe's "Egg".

He was credited for doing the storyboards Childish Gambino's music video for Feels Like Summer.

The animation "DOUBLE KING", has won the best of the month award on the video-sharing website Vimeo. His follow-up work "Flying Bamboo" was also featured as the opening for the Melbourne International Film Festival.

"The Elephant's Garden" won "Best Australian Film" at the Melbourne International Animation Festival in 2014. It has also gained exposure to the public from various web sources. Both "DOUBLE KING" and "The Elephant's Garden" are featured in the book known as Australian Animation: An International History.

Felix Colgrave has been animating since he was a kid. One of his first animations, "Last Resort", was created early in 2008 when he was 15 years old.

Colgrave' wife, Zoë is a costume and makeup-artist, known as Trugglet on Instagram They became engaged on 31 October 2016; On 23rd February, 2019, Colgrave revealed that he has one child with his wife. Currently he lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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