One of my biggest inspirations to make art and go forward throughout my time have been the crew on the Game Grumps over the years. Almost like a diverse cast of characters, each member has their own special talents while also being good with the comedy that falls within their MO. The crew man who inspires me the most is the shows editor who has been there from the beginning, Barry Kramer. His work with the Game Grumps that caught my the most was his How About series, of which there are two. Both of these episodes include high in-depth analysis on what would improve a bad game, or what makes a game good. The time that must have gone in to these must be very high considering the quality, and with the time that Barry already was spending at the time editing Game Grumps, with little help at the time, it shows his high zeal to work incredibly hard. In the interview series, Before the Grumps, Barry tells how he became a member but also the dire state he was in directly before becoming the editor for Game Grumps. During that time he had moved to LA and Jon Jafari, an original member of the Game Grumps, was letting him stay in his apartment while he looked for work, before offering to edit Game Grumps. He called his success a “series of taking advantage of opportunities”. Barry’s take and the general creative atmosphere that the Grumps inspire helped me start creating, and put me in the right mindset for what I wanted from College. If you really want to see how many they have inspired, a simple search for game grumps animated will pull up hundreds upon hundreds of animations made by dozens of people over time, and while it’s become less lucrative to do them in recent years there is still a large group of animators who do it semi-regularly.

How About https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xncs1mrMV6o&t=210s / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYgDqWW6ho

Interview link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ij_YhYMLac&t=2772s