AnimationEpic

Adam Tyler Katz (born: ), better known online as AnimationEpic (or Adamationz), is an American YouTuber, animator, voice actor, writer and creator of the object show Inanimate Insanity. He is known for making the object show called Inanimate Insanity. It is a show where in a group of personified objects battle to determine who will win 1,000,000 dollars. They have their own wiki here. The series is inspired by jacknjellify's "Battle For Dream Island". Adam's channel is partnered with both jacknjellify (who he frequently works with) and ChannelFrederator.
Inanimate Insanity, the third object show born, (Total Fruit Island is second) is currently in it's season 2 and is inspired by jacknjellify's show, Battle for Dream Island. Usually, one episode comes out bi-monthly. He is currently the voice actor for Baseball, Nickel (who is also in BFDIA, BFB, and TPOT), Apple, and Test Tube, and was previously the voice actor for Marshmallow, Taco, Salt, and Pepper.https://www.inanimateinsanity.com/crew
The first season of Inanimate Insanity premiered on April 1, 2011, however, due to hacking situations, Episodes 1 to 5.5 were removed and reuploaded on September 14, 2011.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhC0Q0gT7Ok
The series came to a halt on June 1, 2012, for a summer hiatus, but returned on September 1, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCB0m0RzUc The final episode was released on December 8, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOd2TNtO3A A second season of the series aired on April 2, 2013, featuring eight original returning contestants and twelve new contestants.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOUmwUB_cE
A third season, titled Inanimate Insanity Invitational premiered on April 3, 2021, featuring nine original returning contestants and eight new contestants.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zve3CVjFSww
Adam Katz also works with Brian Koch, Justin Chapman, and formerly Taylor Grodin, who voice act a few characters in Inanimate Insanity.
==Controversy==
===Removal of Taylor Grodin===
During the 2022 BFDI + II meet-up, it was alleged that LorenTzel, a member of the II team, had been ignoring a fan named Gio. According to Loren himself, the reason he ignored them was because he had misheard their name as “Geno”, a former cyber bully of Loren. However, many who were there stated it was because Gio was black, causing some to believe Loren was racist.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kKMLXESc8 These claims would eventually spread throughout the OSC and convince many that Loren had in fact been racist at the meetup. Group chat leaks would later surface of Loren confirming the cyberbully story was a farce, implying Loren ignoring the fan had indeed been the result of racism.
Later on, it was revealed that Taylor Grodin, one of the original core four of Inanimate Insanity, had defended Loren’s actions (more accurately his apology), which he would gain severe backlash for. As a result, the official II Twitter put out a post revealing that both Loren and Taylor had been removed from the team.https://web.archive.org/web/20220827042413/https://twitter.com/animationepic/status/1563371854529970178 Taylor also made a tweet as an apology for defending Loren, and privated his Twitter, deleted all the videos on his YouTube channel, and disappeared from the internet. Loren meanwhile would delete his channel and also disappear.
Inanimate Insanity would be heavily affected by the controversy, specifically with the characters voiced by Taylor; Paintbrush, Bow, Bot, OJ, Dough, Tissues and Toilet. Paintbrush would be recasted as Jazzy Oliver, whereas Bot become voiced by Shoosies, both of the new voices debuting in 'I am Chocolate', the tenth episode of Inanimate Insanity Invitational.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XY03gLSH3k OJ meanwhile would recasted as Patrick Mealey, Tissues would be recasted as Braden Whiteside, Dough would be recasted as Sacri and Bow was recasted as Skyler Lent. All four actors debuted as the characters in the 'The Reality of The Situation', the sixteenth episode of Inanimate Insanity 2, and part 1 one of the Inanimate Insanity movie. Toilet has yet to have confirmation of a recast.
On March 25, 2023, Taylor would make a surprise return to YouTube with the video 'I was removed from Inanimate Insanity', where he explained his side of the controversy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GT_kq3E1lY In the video, Taylor revealed his actual reason for being removed from the team was because he spoke about Loren’s leave on their behalf without permission. Additionally, he claimed he was told he wouldn’t be fired before he actually was, and was instead told to take a break from Twitter. Whilst YouTube users would praise Taylor’s attempt to return and be forgiven, other platforms like Twitter were not as positive. Users were not only mad at Taylor's attempt at getting back into the OSC months after the controversy ended, but took especial disapproval to how he would compare the controversy to the themes seen in Inanimate Insanity 2. The video was later deleted from Taylor’s channel, but many YouTube users decided to reupload it. As of right now, all of Taylor Grodin’s videos are either deleted or unlisted, and the comments of his videos are all disabled.
==Seasons==
*Inanimate Insanity (April 1, 2011 - December 8, 2012)
*Inanimate Insanity II (April 2, 2013 - present)
*Inanimate Insanity Invitational (April 3, 2021 - March 3, 2024)
==Trivia==
*He is Jewish.
*He created Inanimate Insanity when he was 14.
*Inanimate Insanity season 1 had a few slightly mature episodes with some of the characters swearing/cussing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mewGRgXzOJg
*The original voice actor for Balloon, Nate Groth, deleted all the videos on the II channel. As a result, he was fired.
**Groth would return as Balloon, in Inanimate Insanity 2, up until the sixth episode, where his role would be taken over by Ben Cross.
*They collaborated with Saberspark.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9VLtSN8nSA
*In the first episode of Inanimate Insanity, “The Crappy Cliff”, MePhone4 was voiced by Christian Potenza, the former voice actor for Chris McLean from Total Drama Island. Potenza would also reprise his role in the season 1 episode, “Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)”, and the season 2 episode, “Alternate Reality Show”. MePhone is now voiced by Adam’s dad, Mark Katz.
*Around the end of 2010 or start of 2011, Adam and Taylor set up auditions for the Season 1 Characters.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7zwa6nQeOQ&list=PLIckDJkL-jpFKvKNHI-AXJOUumcTVnJBW&index=11
==Gallery==
AnimationEpic's old 2016 pfp.png|2016 Profile Picture
2018AnimationEpicIcon.jpeg|2018 Profile Picture
AnimationEpic.jpg|2020 Profile Picture
ADAMKATZ.png|Adam Katz
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011