Rainimator

Rain Allen Olaguer (born: ), better known online as Rainimator (formerly Radapedaxa), is a Filipino YouTuber and Minecraft animator specializing in creating original fanmade music videos based on the popular video game Minecraft, collaborating with various artists. He is best known for his ongoing Minecraft music video saga Fractures on YouTube, which draws its ties from fantasy and steampunk.
As Radapedaxa, his first animation channel, Rain's music videos were self-created Minecraft-themed parodies of popular songs. As Rainimator, he started to collaborate with various indie alternative rock bands such as Blacklite District, WE ARE FURY and THR3, even with the likes of TryHardNinja and TheFatRat.
His channel's first song, "The Struggle", was published August 11th, 2017; the most recent song, "Demons", was published June 27th, 2024. The trailers for the now-debunked Minecraft movie, "Fractures", was released December 4, 2017, whilst the trailer for the "War of the Ender Watchers" was released October 8th, 2022.
==History==
Rain joined YouTube as Radapedaxa, which specialized in Minecraft Gaming Videos, SFMs and animated Minecraft Parody Videos. During this time, he collaborated with Fizybubly (later Derivakat) on Shut Up and Mine With Me and Hypixel Minigames.
==Cubeworks Acquisition ==
Around late 2016, Rain's channel was acquired as a part of a botched business deal with the MCN scam 'PowerTV', who mislead him into an agreement that forced the creator out. The channel has since gone dormant.
==Rainimator==
After CubeWorks' acquisition of Radapedaxa, Olaguer rejoined YouTube as Rainimator on June 29, 2017, and uploaded his first video, a MC Pixelart demo, on June 29, 2017. He also created Nether Reaches, a short for FredisaalAnimation's collab "The Floor Is Lava".
On August 11, 2017, Rainimator released his first production: The Struggle, a Minecraft Original Animated Music Video in collaboration with the singer Kyle Pfeiffer, Blacklite District. Later, Pfeiffer said that rather than "traditional methods" such as radio, videos such as The Struggle could help expose his music to a broader audience. The video reused many of Olaguer's previous character models, albeit redesigned.
The first season of the series, “Herobrine's Revenge”, centres on the war between the humans and the undead and is split into 5 episodes, including “The Struggle”, “Cold as Ice”, “We Are the Danger”, “Just So You Know”, and “Goodbye”, all five sung by Blacklite District. A filler episode, “Begin Again”, sung by THR3, was introduced as the tale why Abigail Crysteffor turned to the side of the Nether horde. The season ends in “Goodbye”, with Ceris, the End Matriarch decapitating the weakened Herobrine as the Undead fall. 
A strong lorebase was slowly developed around the events of the videos, and Rainimator began to increase both in new and returning subscribers.
By August 2018, the 2nd season named “The Last Ender Watcher”, in which the Nether Horde begin a campaign to conquer Minecraftia, began with “Wings of Salvation”, followed by “Hard Pill to Swallow”, “Wither Heart”, “Ender Wish”, “Wishing Dead”, “Falling”, and “Cold as Ice: The Remake”; after "Ender Wish", Rain has assembled a production team on the Discord to assist him in the production of the series. It was also around the time of Ender Wish's production that the 'Skydom' Discord was created. 
The third season was announced around May 2021, dubbed 'The Endstone Crusaders' based on the main character's group. The third season is based around the Nether Horde's continuing campaign to conquer Minecraftia, and the Endstone Crusader's search for the End Crystals with help from Lance (The antagonist of Tale of the Netherbane's “Poison”). The season began with “Be Afraid”, followed by “Eternal”, “Gotta Get Outta Here”, “Clear Skies”, “Back Into Darkness”, “Already Dead”, “Preach to the Choir” and “We Are The Danger XL”.
The fourth season - date of production to be revealed - has been tenatively dubbed 'War in Heaven' based on Discord messages within Skydom dating back to February 12th, 2022.
===Fractures Prequels===
The episodes "Begin Again" and "1 of a Kind" are Fractures Prequels mostly unassociated with other prequel series', focusing on the events surrounding the first season. "Begin Again" tells the story of how Abigail Crysteffor became the Nether Princess, whilst "1 of a Kind" tells the story of a brave warrior by the name of Kyle, the Unsung Hero, who valiently fighting for his life in the Outbreak of Glacierford (the town Rain the Dragon Tamer and Abigail the Nether Princess came from).
====Tales of the Netherbane====
In 2021, Rain, with the assistance of his production team, announced and began work on a collaboration with the duo producer WE ARE FURY, which would feature two of their songs. The two newly announced music videos constituted an overlapping prequel featuring the Netherbane - a mercenary-esque faction introduced in Wishing Dead - adequately titled “The Tales of the Netherbane”. The first, “Nightmares”, was released on March 27th, 2021, and the second, “Poison”, was released on May 18th, 2021. Both episodes were successful, with “Nightmares” premiering with 29.5K viewers.
===Our Song Universe===
On June 24th and 28th, 2021, Rainimator teased a special non-canon episode centering around a new set of police characters in a modern, mafia-controlled city. This episode - known as “Our Song” - begun a minor side-series focusing on different characters within the ficitional 'Mattupolis', with Our Song based around Cynthia Rose and “Red Line” based around streetracer Mori. Our Song was released on August 7th, 2021, whilst Red Line was released on May 27th, 2023.
===War of the Ender Kingdoms ===
On May 21, 2022, Rainimator released a collaboration video between himself and musicians Luel John and MJ Guingon titled “To The Void”. Acting as a prequel to both Tales of the Netherbane and Fractures, the episode followed the adventures of the Orchid Fleet and their vampire captain, Arabella (voiced by Guingon) on their hunt for End Crystals. 
Following the interest and relative success of To The Void, on October 8th, 2022, a trailer for a new prequel series was released, titled 'War of the Ender Kingdoms'. The series is centered around the formation of the Ender Watchers from Fractures, and their war against the Void Lord Lance.
On August 4th, 2023, the first episode of the Ender Kingdoms series was revealed to be called "The Brave", with an original song once again by Luel John. It focused on the Gateways Kingdom and their fight to protect the Overworld and Nether from the Void Lord, centering around Sora Maeda, Captain of the Gateaways. This video was released on December 8th, 2023. 
===Other Videos ===
Rain's channel also hosts other non-canon productions, whether collabs or solo projects. The first of these was a Christmas collaboration between himself, ZAMination's Zach and TheBlueJerome known as 'A Christmas Special', with Rain's video (Part 1) releasing December 13th, 2021. The second collab video came nearly two years later, between himself and real life friend Fricco, with Rain releasing the Ending B for Fricco's “Crossed the Line” zombie apocalypse animation (released April 28th, 2023).
In regards to solo animations, Rainimator released a university short film project known as “Noob's Adventures” on August 19th, 2022. Voice Actors from the Fractures series joined as the main three characters.
====Shorts====
In addition to his main videos, Rainimator began making shorts utilizing characters from Fractures and the War of the Ender Kingdoms. The style of the shorts follows a Vine-esque format, with a few prompted by suggestions in his Discord.
==Subscriber milestones==
==Trivia==
*Rainimator's first face reveal was on his Instagram page on July 17, 2015.
*Rain graduated from the University of Santo Tomas.
*Rain uses Cinema4D to make animations.
*After "Just So You Know", a trailer for a Minecraft Short Film called "Fractures" was released on the channel, although he has since said the movie had been cancelled on a collab livestream with Arbiter217 of Black Plasma Studios (now Squared Media) and TeamWNJ.
==Gallery==
Rainimator's_Golden_Play_Button.jpg|The official Rainimator Golden Play Button.
==References==
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