Alex Henderson Animation

Alexander "Alex" Henderson (born: ) is a Canadian independent animator. He has many animations under his belt, such as music videos for Napalm records, trailers, and a pilot.
== Content ==
=== Music Videos ===
Some of Alex's most notable animations are his musi c videos. The very first video on his channel, Breathing Space, is a sci-fi themed short film telling the story of two intergalactic heroes named Janus (a human) and Ulrich (a reptilian alien) set off to fight the evil Commander, all in the sound of Getting Stronger, song written and performed by Black Gryph0n, Baasik and Michelle Creber.
He also has two collaborations with Alestorm: The first one was a cover of DKC's A Pirate's Scorn for the 25th anniversary of the TV series, featuring Captain Scurvy and his crew attacking Donkey Kong Island; The second other one is for their song P.A.R.T.Y. , which is also avaiable on Napalm Records' channel. On August 1st, 2024, the latter music video has accrued 1 million views.
On April 6th, 2023, it was released the Animated Music video for Gloryhammer's Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy, produced by Henderson himself. Though at the time, the video was exclusive to Napalm Records' channel, it eventually made its way to Alex's channel in September 12th of the same year.
=== Tales from Scorchwater Valley ===
Tales from Scorchwater Valley is Alex's personal project for an animated series. The proof of concept was originally announced in 2018https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhinoandtheredbill/the-rhino-and-the-oxpecker-the-animated-pilot?ref=profile_created (although it has been worked on since a bit earlier than that), and was crowd funded by Kickstarter, but despite raising a decent amount of money, it failed to reach its goal. Alex didn't give up on the project, but spent the two years working on commissions while fleshing out the pilot a bit more. In 2020https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhinoandtheredbill/the-rhino-and-the-redbill-the-animated-pilot?ref=profile_created, a second Kickstarter campaign was launched, and this time the funding was successful, with the pilot being completed in 2021 and being exclusive to backers and animation festivals (and winning some awards and nominations on the latter) before being uploaded to YouTube in February of the next year.
The show follows a drought-ravaged wasteland called Scorchwater Valley (formely Springwater), in which its society of anthropomorphic animals have collapsed and divided itself into criminal factions that live by the "Dog eat Dog World" mentality to survive.
For its pilot, The Rhino and The Redbill, it tells the story of Niles, a blind rhinoceros mercenary, and Red, a flight impaired red-billed oxpecker with an unhatched egg (named "Sam"), who serves as a sighted guide for the latter. After Red tricks his friend into taking a dangerous shortcut, the duo finds themselves surrounded by a gang of chop-shoppers that want to kill Niles and sell his horn. The duo now must learn to trust one another again in order to escape with their lives. 
=== Donkey Kong Country: Return to Krocodile Isle ===
On May 8th, 2023, Alex released a 9 minute fan animated short of Donkey Kong Country titled "Return to Krocodile Isle". 
The musical cartoon was a collaboration between Henderson, Uncle Al and Bootleg Dubs. It details the story of King K. Rool's return to his Kremling Krew after a decade-long absence, which then leads to him detailing his plans to invade DK Island on a song by Joshua David Mitchell. 
It was made in celebration for K. Rool's inclusion in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, and the post-credits scene reveals the short took place before his reveal trailer. It features the return of Benedict Campbell, King K. Rool's voice actor in the DKC animated series.
On September 27, 2023, that video has achieved 1 million views, making it the second video on Henderson's channel to do so, only being beaten by the music video of "A Pirate's Scorn", which had reached the milestone on July 13 of the same year.
== Trivia ==
* Before creating his YouTube channel, he made an animated short on his college years called Olympiads, which is currently provided by Mad Artist Publishing CGI & Films. It's also available on his Vimeo account.
*Alex worked as an animator for the Inspector Gadget 2015 CGI series. Some scenes he has done are available on his YouTube channel with a mini-compilationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoSwTY5894.
**He has also done animation work for some video games, such as the animated trailers for Unbound: Worlds Aparthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMg5VNOEz5M and ReTurn 2- Runawayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Noec354SA, as well as Nekojishi: Lin and Partners.
*Alex is a big fan of the Donkey Kong Country TV show, and aside from the music video mentioned before, he has also made an entry for the DKC ReAnimatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTciMQJoGog collab (which, as of July 2022, hasn't been released, and therefore it's unknown if his scene was included).
**Another collab he's participating in is Spider-Man Retoldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKKXL4OQbs, a Multi-Animator Project that aims to recreate the 2002 Spider-Man movie. This project is also currently unreleased. There's also the aformentioned Return to Krocodile Island short.
*Alex has a FurAffinity accounthttps://www.furaffinity.net/user/alexanderhenderson.
**He also has many friends in the furry community, with many of them commissioning him for short animations (many of them having anthropomorphic animal characters), as well as Adler the Eagle (a famous furry animator) collaborating with him on many occasions.
*Alex's art was plagiarized by an NFT creator, who traced old concept art of Nileshttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/8779172/ and resold them as the "Raging Rhinos"https://x.com/ArtOfAlexH/status/1702128574021476403/photo/1 collection in 2021. On 2022, they were renamed "Rogue Rhinos" and Niles' image was replaced with a generic anthropomorphic rhinoceros.
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