The Beauty of Indie Animation 

Want to watch more indie animation? Want to support your fellow creators? Please use this long list to find all sorts of awesome animations you can watch! Have fun! 💚💜 ____________________ INDIE ANIMATED FILMS Barber Westchester (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xf46FELFk2g.html It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--e6DHjZ-eRg.html ____________________ INDIE ANIMATED PILOTS Hugo's Mind Palace (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T8ov902FWLE.html Our Spellbinding Lies (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vz1mC8QpGYw.html Long Gone Gulch (2021) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tmSx5Ywc_YI.html Cliffside (2018) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UGa8eReR_ns.html Hell to Pay (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QcXcoq06YN4.html Becky Prim (2016) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YcchrgJgryo.html The Dead Shift (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3jg3PUm0PSc.html Lackadaisy (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vffu6FG4YP4.html Ramshackle (2024) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i1r2QqSpJ5o.html ____________________ INDIE ANIMATED SHOWS (ongoing) Shave Your Head (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jgwymHJYQAo.html The Earth Guy (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G0MEXTmk8VA.html No Evil (2012) ru-vid.com/group/PL_9VobYoMHhBjLjSxq5vzNW_9b00VUxiE Dreamophrenia (2017) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ybvdW21JvWU.html Satina (2019) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zjMh_iE8bf0.html Tales of Zale (2015) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1DLbgOeE2_w.html Monkey Wrench (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8i18HXAa1uY.html Bigtop Burger (2020) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GyCagepF_T4.html Spooky Month (2018) ru-vid.com/group/PLlgnRq26EmwJ-sDDKtiaVj-fuIGwrzCYG Murder Drones (2021) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mImFz8mkaHo.html The Amazing Digital Circus (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HwAPLk_sQ3w.html Helluva Boss (2020) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-el_PChGfJN8.html ____________________ INDIE ANIMATED SHORTS Gamdecade (2024) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EZnDhClJsKY.html Set Sail for Candy (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rms54VWjVRA.html Learning to Float (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-skWlL5goD40.html The Kid and the Camera (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IyhoT3smJEQ.html The Maker (2012) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YDXOioU_OKM.html Reversal of the Heart (2011) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rHLwG3ioD4Y.html Welcome to Hell (2013) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5LQe5nR2CgM.html Fueled (2021) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uVzT6D-yhZg.html Twins in Paradise (2020) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IDYxLj3bYds.html The Life of Death (2016) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ofnCdC8P70g.html I am a Fish (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f-4Vowi55b0.html The Green Between (2020) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SN8xmTPQF2A.html The Red Eclipse (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eoIniko3sO0.html The Legend of Pipi (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I5cFBi02O34.html Desert Mayhem Overdrive (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eBlTZ63STi8.html The Sun is Bad (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M8Wmc0JHyTU.html Clicker (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q5x8g3fr1m4.html Out O' The Inkwell (2022) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lx48nJZvj6s.html Piece of Cake (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PD-Smkxsj0.html Luckyboy (2021) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aTG7sIThOlA.html PAWS (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-glWV5lK2Zlk.html Teaser Trailer (2024) LINK TBA - FILM CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT Baked With Love (2024) LINK TBA - FILM CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT ____________________ UPCOMING ANIMATED PILOTS (currently in development) MMANWU instagram.com/mmanwufilm/ Ruff Ruff Danger Dogs instagram.com/apartmentdfilms/ Mandelbrot Hall instagram.com/studioflimpo/ The Lovers instagram.com/studioheartbreak/ There is also an 11 minute pilot being produced by Tempest JoyBott Animation, but you won't find any info until May 4th... ____________________ MISCELLANEOUS INDIE MEDIA South Scrimshaw (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IR6o5rxUn2A.html Gregory Horror Show (1999) ru-vid.com/group/PLAsjhSYjsRLq9ZWhhkgxsNSlTmw-BQCWk Hullabaloo (2023) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hcd9ZRYlAoI.html ____________________ Want to recommend something not on this list? Comment below!

EEEEKKKKK IM SO HAPPY SOMEONE SHEDS LIGHT ON NO EVIL. ITS SO UNDERRATED

finally, some monkey wrench love. ppl tend to not know them or talk about them.

Thanks for the shoutout!! :) So glad you liked

I AM HYPED FOR MORE TADC AND RAMSHACKLE EPISODES

AWESOME!! I’m a concept artist for another indie show that is very early in production rn so I’m not sure if I’m allowed to give away any details but it’s a cool fantasy show!! Cant wait to see what you have to say about all these indie shows!!

Somebody actually including No evil in one of these for once, thank you Raine

5:29 That's how I binged the first season of Welcome to Dreamworld! Watching it on the TV like a proper show.

I'm a simple guy, I see No Evil, one of my all time fave Indie series, on the thumbnail of one of my fave creators, I click!! X D

I don’t recall train noise problems in past videos it’s like a train spawned and ran laps around your place

_Jpeg of a mountain, you'll be missed! My favorite character!_ Rainbott 2024 🙏 😂🤣😂

i discovered barber westchester a while back and i loved it and still do. i showed my best friends it. im so happy to see a creator talking about it, it really deserves all the love. jonni’s other work, secrets and lies in a town of sinners, really adds a lot to the movie and it’s definitely worth the watch!

I just watched "the kid and his camera" and it is very unsettling

DEAD SHIFT AND SET SAIL FOR CANDY MENTION LETS GO! I loved those and no one talks about them, among the other tons you talked about, like Hugo’s Mind Palace and Monkey Wrench - thank you so much for showing off some more projects I haven’t seen either, definitely will check these out!

Jonni's work has always made a massive impact on me, from Stilton to Barber Westchester, I love every last bit of it! I remember how hyped I was hearing about Barber Westchester since I was already a fan of what he's made and binged the series that is pretty much a prequel to it. There's just something about the way he writes characters that makes me so invested, even when they're meant to be purely comical. I can't stress enough of invested I am!

I'm really happy you're shouting out lesser-known indie shows/shorts. I grew up with no evil lol, and I love how this shows people you don't need a large budget to make something

27:51 DUDE when i was a kid i watched Ninjago TOO

1:02:45 Little Fun Fact, Jonni Peppers was a guest animator for a mini series called ONE: Investigations, specifically the episode called Kylie Harding. If you want to watch more of their stuff or want to look at more indie animation, check out the creator of that mini series, Cheesy HFJ. But just a heads up, the mini series is part of a bigger series called ONE. I suggest you watch that first because it gives you details about the miniseries. The show is about objects being teleported to a plane to compete in an object show. The show has incredible writing, beautiful animation, witty humor, and some of the most heartbreaking scenes of anything I have seen. I highly recommend it.

NO EVIL MENTIONED RRAAAAAAAAAHHH no evil is my favorite series and it desperately deserves to get as big as ramshackle and lackadaisy, i need this series to have a big fandom so i have people to ramble about it with

Thanks so much for the mention! 💕 I'd love to do a kickstarter for more Hugo's Mind Palace at some point in the future so stay tuned for that!

This was a fun video! I love learning about all these Indie Animations! Some I've seen, some I might check out this weekend or on my own time!

THE TRAIN PART HAD ME GIGGLING FOR NO REASON

Indie Animation is The Best! I wish I made a indie animation series.

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY😭😭😭😭

THANK YOU FOR GIVING GAMECADE A SHOUTOUT!!! I love that series so far! It’s one of my current favorite indie shows so far, and I also love Tim lol. Thank you for bringing more attention to the series. ArtistNCS is so underrated for their original content. By the way, Episode 2 is on the way!! I’m just as excited as you are!!!

Watching these types of vids makes me so happy!! I'm pretty young currently but I've sorta dedicated myself to becoming the best artist I can to eventually produce my own animated series on youtube! So seeing that other indie animators can get attention on their works sorta brings me hope for this huge project I'm making. Your series has also helped inspire that, so just wanted to say thank you for making this video and many others. I hope you know your a huge inspiration for me and others :)

Such amazing recommendations!! I can never watch too much indie animation 🤩

This was AMAZING👏 , so many animation projects people have worked on that I know of now. This Video really inspired me to keep animating my Pilot Series so I THANK YOU RAINBOTT ❤👍👍👍

To this day I'm still mad that set sail for candy didnt get more attention when it came out 😡

I should be making my own animation and proof of concepts, but college, not enough experience, poor motivation, and several other things are keeping me from working on making sure I have the bare minimum all sketched out. I could just continue writing though.

Yeeees rain talked about no evil!!!¡!! That's my favorite show!!

Thanks for featuring us at Apartment D 🙏

These all sound so cool! Definitely gonna check out a bunch of these. This is also re-inspiring me to start working again on a project I've left on the back burner for a long time now

you might like Society of Virtue for super hero parody animation. It's more dialogue heavy and there is very little actually animation, but the art really feels like watching a living comic. Too bad it hasn't been updated in over three years. I could also suggest Dead sounds and all his awesome dinosaur animations which is absolutely impressive on the quality and esteticque front.

I'm so, so Glad underated Indie animations are getting more noticed and recommended by people. Some I do also recommend are like ,Port by the Sea! By:Georden Whitman, Scattershot (This one's similar to Ramshake, hanse why I love it so much) By: Jade Smania, Boyfriend Material (a little more new!) By: Bridgett Baron, Dracudate By: Seneca 2D, Obituary by: Belated Media, Revamped by: REVAMPEDROSES. And ect! :3

Only problem it’s takes longer and others don’t get seen

Man, everytime I see Welcome to Hell I tear up a bit. I remember being in elementary school and stumbling across it on yt and I was so inspired I started working on my own series (and I'm still working on it to this day😢)

Hee hee hee hee. A beautiful new list of indie animation to watch and support. I love you so much! thank you thank you thank you for making this! XD

Finally! I remember watching Dreamophrenia in 7th grade and No Evil since 4th grade. I have mass playlist of indie animation I've made over the years. One of my favorites being My Pride. So glad I'm not the only one watching niche indie projects. A short film I recomend is There's a Man in the Woods. It has a very neat art style, it rhymes the whole time, and it has a dark twist.

Thanks for the shoutout, from the Set Sail for Candy crew ✌🏽🍭🍬

Jonni Peppers in thumbnail, ayyyy. Love her!

Also I recommend a indie animation called cartoon therapy, idk if it’s anybodys style, but it is on youtube

i love seeing new indie anim projects pop up, super glad to find a list of reccs :) as someone with a series in dev it brings me sm hope

Happy to see that people from abroad know about Dreamophrenia

I watched The Kid and The Camera last night on your recommendation and it was so good but spiked my paranoia so badly

I am a shave your head STAN!!!! I will say that shit gets real in the second episode tho

I really wanna make my own indie animation series in the future. and maybe at some point leave the OSC community after getting experience, is my concept good or bad? The story is about a girl named skarlet, who after her 15 birthday finds a artifact in a box. which is a key with a big eye, suddenly a portal appears from the keys energy and sucks her into the isle of nowhere, where she will meet a bunch of colorful or ehh cast of characters, and maybe a love interest!!! Lol, anyway, trying the finds her way out, will she actually make it out? Will she find the hidden mysteries of her family,and what actually happened to her dad??? I don’t really know if my concept is good or not, which is why I’m asking if it is or not, I’ve finalized all my designs and characters, I know what I want to do with my series, but is my concept good, bad, to big to handle, or others, also fyi I’ve posted concept art of these character online

*cries with happiness* :>

Reversal of the heart was my shitt 😭😭 any dragon animation was tbh but that short??? Top tier

53:23 how do I vote for showstoppers on capstone??? I really want those cast of colorful characters to be in a show!!!! I need to make an oc about this!!! WHERE IS MY PENCIL AND PAPE-

29:07 rainbott vs train….winner: Train

Jarrad Wright is a neat indie animator I watch.

Man thanks for sharing all of these underrated. Shows

Wow these all look AMAZING! I plan to watch A LOT of these! idk if you've watched Atlas and the Stars? or if its considered more mainstream?? but its REALLY INTERESTING! (in my opinion at least no pressure if its not your style tho

Damm, this was an awesome video! I didn't know most of these, I'll give them a try. I'm kinda surprised that nobody mentioned Ratboy Genius tho, it's the niche of the niche, Imo. I'm super conflicted everytime I get the chance to reccomend it. On one hand, it's a nice (but very weird and ugly) compilation of series with surrealist vibes, charming characters and really, REALLY good music (and Minecraft). It's an aquired taste, but man, it can be so relaxing. It's a huge inspiration for me because it doesn't look like the author wants to go anywhere with it or make the series look better for mainstream standards, he just makes it for himself and that's AWESOME. Plus, he makes this completely on his own too! The problem is... The creator supported some really bad stuff three years ago about vaccines causing autism, so... Yeah, that's why I don't feel like showing Ratboy Genius to everyone. The series are nice, but the author has (or had, idk) pretty ableist views towards autistic people, even though I'm pretty sure that he's in the spectrum.

53:28 ok, now one of the showstoppers looks like from Out O’ the inkwell, not like it’s gonna stop me from watching it at all tho!!!!

I would also like to add: The entire genre of object shows. There’s a whole genre of shows on RU-vid called “object shows”, this describes the designs of the characters in all the shows which are, well, objects. The most common kind of object shows are game shows because the first popular show in the genre is Battle for Dream Island which is a game show, but there are other genres like horror that are used. If you wanna check some out here’s my suggestions: BFDI, Inanimate Insanity, hfjONE, Paper Puppets take two, The Nightly Manor, Burner Fair warning though, if you wanna watch BFDI and Inanimate Insanity just know that the first/first few seasons were written when the creators were children so it’s very childish. But it is impressive that these were made by literal kids and are still going today.

52:36 also rainbott, just some controversy I have on the character designs, one of the characters looks like the guy in welcome to dreamworld where they would give us clues and we would have to spot him, is that the same guy, and if not, why was he not in the rest of season 1, or featured at all for season 2, I just wanna point that out for some welcome to dreamworld fans who have some controversy about it, also if they are the same, what is there name and lore, and those it tie to welcome to dreamworlds lore, I just wanted to make this comment for those who like me, we’re confused. (Hopefully this gets answered)🤞

I watched No Evil after this, now im obsessed

Lu (the purple girl) from dreamophrenia was my first gay crush

okay jumpscare MY name is olive too - but shoutout to them indeed!

Currently right now I'm working on a South Park au series called mythology Park and it's a South Park au based off of Mythology I'm going to be honest I don't know for sure if I count as an indie animator considering how this is an alternate universe series based off of a show that already exists but I like to think that I am an indie animator!

Also will spellmania ever make it to WEBTOON??? Because I don’t know where I can read spellmania, and I feel like WEBTOON would make more accessible, idk

Quetzalcoatl should be like /ketsalkoatɬ/. Hope that helps :)

I've heard of monkey wrench! I've never watched it I'm just subscribed for his fecal funny animations (joel vargeskelethor)

I need more DREAMWORLD

great video, i realy enjoyed it concidering i'm realy pasionate of animation as a whole, and the thing that got me pasionate of animation is this the indie series called ONE (or more refered as hfjone), its about the anthropomorfic objects who live just like humans (the first batch more specificaly) geting teleported to some world thats just a plain grass and sky called "the Plane" and they are forced to compete in the gameshow called "ONE" by the host, Airy, and the prize is the wish for anything, at the start, it does seem realy suspicious, and there are some secrets to be revealed, thats all what i will say about it, i recomend to watch it and its spinoff and miniseries "ONE investigations", also Jonni Peppers worked on one episode of ONE investigations and thats how i founded out about their work, also i recomend watching hfjONE before ONE investigations to understand the context of the miniseries :]

HEY RAINBOTT if you loved barber westchester you should watch wasteland and secrets and lies in a town of sinners cause they are related to barber westchester actually for fuck sake and secrets and lies in a town of sinners is season 1 of barber westchester

Long Gone Gulch SWEEEEEEEP

Your game Kade sona would be a lizard 🦎 with spiks

Anyone remember Homestar?

I love indie animations, and I love trains.

Could you do indie puppetry on RU-vid? 😊

19:27

My gf has the same name as Lucia and I concur they are both hot 26:37

To the leaders at this school you failed at your job not sorry you people remind me of the teachers who were so incompetent at their jobs that schools I went too would get blamed for stupid stuff no reason so fed up of idiotic leaders in all life not sorry oh RU-vid bots this is free speech I,m doing anything wrong probably well get in trouble because RU-vid is dumb

And I also recommend hellion: oxenfree.