Animan

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Animan (also known as Robert Young) is an American illustrator and filmmaker known for his erotic comics and pornographic short films for gay men. He has produced more than two dozen animated shorts under his Animan Studios label.

Biography

Animan was born in San Diego, California. When he was five years old, he stumbled upon Tijuana bibles (pornographic comics) belonging to his parents. He came away from the experience "a changed boy," and as he entered his teenage years he fantasized about animating those comics with an all-male cast.

At 13 years old, Animan began drawing erotic art and teaching himself animation. At his urging, his parents bought him an animation kit from Disneyland as a Christmas present. He initially drew on paper, but switched to animation software when it became available. Many of his videos draw inspiration from the visual design of the 1950s and 1960s, on which Animan noted in 2011:

"An inelegant feature of the U.S. 60’s was the rampant anti-gay sentiment which did a lot to spoil the decade.  I suppose that in my humble way, I’m taking modern day tolerance and superimposing it upon an idealized past image. It’s my own little way of re-working the era, rewriting history if you will."

In the early 2000s, Animan released his first complete video, School Fantasy, about a high school student sleeping with his coach. Animan initially released videos for free, but he began selling his later films online at $7 each.

Several of his films have found notable success. In 2011, he published The Twist Party,Template:Rs? about "a 1960's twist party turning into a gay gangbang," which circulated widely on the internet. In 2011, A Day at the Beach was featured at the 2011 HUMP! film festival. And in 2023, his film Axel In Harlem (2016) went viral.Template:Rs? Queerty praised Axel In Harlem as "especially notable because it presents Black men of size as desirable, something that never happens in mainstream gay adult film." Animan amassed nearly 150,000 followers on Twitter before deleting much of his content.

In addition to producing erotic short films, Animan is a pianist and teacher.

Animation Process

In a 2011 interview, he described the animation process as follows:

"I draw directly into the computer, frame by frame.  The current trend in TV animation is the “cutout puppet”, which is sort of like a flat marionette.  You draw the object only once; then you tell the computer where when and how that object should move, and it performs the task. I often use that for simple actions, such as a character raising an arm. But when my characters are having sex, I like to draw each frame of the action separately–that way I can add the little naughty touches, such as jiggly body parts!  Working in this way, it takes about 2 months of daily drawing to produce 5 or 6 minutes of screen time."

Filmography

The below list is not comprehensive.

• Animan's All-Stars
• Axel In Harlem
• Bottoms Up 2
• Carmen
• Coach Ben's Big Beach Adventure
• Coach Kuntzmann's Man-Cunt
• Country Club
• A Day At the Beach
• Dr. Lex's Tips for Dealing with COVID-19
• Drippin Dads 1 - The College Grass Cutter
• Drippin Dads 2 - What's New, Drippin Dad?
• Drippin Dads 3 - The Filipino Professor
• Drippin Dads 4 - Big Uncle John
• Drippin Dads 5 - Beach Dudes
• Drippin Dads 6 - Bottoms Up
• Drippin Dads 7 - Pounding a Beat
• G.I. Bananas
• Gentleman's Matinée
• Heracles
• Junior College Mens Camp
• Lex Stern, M.D.
• Poker Game
• School Fantasy
• Sex Ed
• Sheriff of Lone Gulch
• Spanish Teacher
• Superhero
• The Swimsuit
• Twist Party

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