Element Animation

Element Animation is a 2D computer-animated company founded by Dan Lloyd, Jason Sargeant, and Christine Aktin and owned by parent company YouTube Originals. It was first founded in 2010.

Element Animation uploaded their first video to YouTube on October 4, 2010, titled, ''YOLK! Teaser Trailer''. However, the team removed the video for being "terrible." YOLK! then was renamed to what is now known as The Crack!.

History
In college, Danny Lloyd took a visual arts course that included a section on 3-D animation. He later met Jason Sargeant and Christine Atkin who all three then co-founded Element Animation. Element Animation finally published their first episode of The Crack!, The Hunt for Ninjas, on January 16, 2011. For The Crack! episode, Psycho!, they hired a voice actor named Scott Stoked to do the voice of the narrator. Scott had been doing additional voices for Element Animation ever since until his death in 2015. In 2016, Dan Lloyd confirmed that Scott left behind enough vocal files to play Steve posthumously throughout An Egg's Guide to Minecraft, which he also did in 2016, even though in 2020 a new voice actor was hired for unknown reasons.

Started in 2011, Element Animation collaborated with other YouTubers such as Charlie McDonnell, Joel Berghult, Alfie Deyes, Zach King, and Sam Pepper, to come guest star on The Crack! to share viewership across all channels. A year later after they published The Hunt for Ninjas, Element Animation uploaded the season finale of The Crack!, The End.

Other than working on the new season of The Crack!, the team decided to work on a new series titled, An Egg's Guide to Minecraft, starring Jason as himself and Scott as Steve. Element Animation also collaborated with Seth Hendrickson to work on Bite-Sized Minecraft around the time. On July 29, 2012, Element Animation launched their own Minecraft Server for players to join on.

Element Animation created a second YouTube channel simply named, Element Animation 2, on March 23, 2013.

Around July of 2013, the team uploaded a parody of "500 Miles" by The Proclaimers titled, 500 Chunks. Element Animation later got a copyright claim from the music group and the parody was removed from public viewing. The only surviving copy is this-

☀500 Chunks

and it was later re-released in the collection "The Villager Covers and FORBIDDEN SONGS!" in October 2019.

For Element Animation's 900,000 Subscribers Special, they were giving away a goody bag. The person who won the goody bag goes by the YouTube screen name, smokey750, for posting a comment on the winning video that the Element Animation team liked. However, smokey750 didn't respond back to Element Animation regarding the bag.

Recently, Element Animation stopped uploading throughout 2019, but they are still active on Twitter, where they were showing development on their biggest video yet "Villager News: WAR!” released on September 27, 2019.

From 2016 to 2020, Element paused production of An Egg's Guide to Minecraft. On November 7, 2019, they announced that Parts 18 and 19 were in production. Part 18 - We're under ATTACK! was released on March 29, 2020, three years and eleven months following the release of the previous episode.

Films

 * The Villagers Movie
 * Villager War
 * Villagers in Hawaii
 * Villager Endgame
 * An Egg's Guide to Minecraft (2017 Film)
 * Villagers meet Tom and Jerry

Shows

 * The Crack
 * Villager News
 * Element Shorts
 * An Eggs Guide To Minecraft (series)
 * Adventures with the Villagers
 * Villager Shorts
 * Power Down (cancelled)
 * Terraria: The Animated Series
 * Shorts in Minecraft
 * Wild Diamonds