Andrew Chesworth

Andrew Chesworth (born: ),https://filmfreeway.com/AndrewChesworth also known as Achesworth online, is an American animator and filmmaker who also has a YouTube channel, where he uploads animated shorts, behind the scenes, and most notably his Academy-award winning passion project, The Brave Locomotive, released in 2023 on his channel.
==Personal Life==
Chesworth was born in Delaware.http://www.animationinsider.com/2015/05/andrew-chesworth/ As a child, his family moved around a lot, and he attended Waubonsie Valley High School from 1999 to 2003, before studying at Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 2003 to 2007.https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-chesworth-7b2a8412/ He lives in Burbank, Californiahttp://www.andrewchesworth.com/ and is the head of character design at Flying Bark Productions, and Netflix working on the new animated Stranger Things series. Before working for Netflix he worked for Disney as an animator, having worked on Wreck It Ralph, Frozen, Get a Horse!, Big Hero 6, Feast, Zootopia and Moana. He is best known for co-directing the 2018 Oscar-nominated short One Small Step.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2314791/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Chesworth
==Content==
The first video of the channel, Boy versus Dinosaur, uploaded on 29 September 2006 is 1 minute and 37 seconds long with 6.8 million views, 3.7K likes, and 531 comments as of 9 June 2024.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd4LPHtva-Q This animated short is described as "A young lad confronts a ferocious dinosaur in a merciless showdown." It was animated in 2004 while he was studying at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
The most popular video on the channel as of 9 June 2024 with 63 million views, 143K likes, and 4,083 comments since it was uploaded on 23 September 2009 is Fruitless Efforts: Fruit of the Wombhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsUbvqcyLKE. It was produced for the channel MAKE Originals (Make, LLC), and was co-directed between Chesworth and Aaron Quist, with the short being submitted to 23 film festivals.https://makevisual.com/fruitlessefforts/about.php The short uses a combination of 2D and 3D animation and features an Apple attempting to escape from a tree, with no help from some grapes and a banana, with the three fruits being burned alive in an oven while the tree remains stuck in the door of a house.
===The Brave Locomotive===
The Brave Locomotive is an Oscar-qualifying passion project by Chesworth, it was conceived in 2008,https://www.thebravelocomotive.com/about.html being in production for over 9 years, as seen in The Brave Locomotive | Opening Sequence Work In Progress (originally titled "The Brave Locomotive" - Opening Sequence Work In Progresshttps://web.archive.org/web/20190412191506/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-w1j-dsbI), uploaded on 18 April 2015, as of 10 June 2024 it has 13 million views, 29K likes, and 1,155 comments, being the second most popular video on the channel, it almost 2 minutes long.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-w1j-dsbI
The final finished version of The Brave Locomotive was uploaded on 13 November 2023 at 7 minutes and 17 seconds in duration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mScKWj3kQ As of 10 June 2024 it has 10.9 million views, 209K likes, and 10,746 comments, the narrative of this short film follows engineer Henry and his faithful little locomotive Linus, a small blue 2-4-0 tender engine - as times change Linus' little line is bought by a wealthy railway baron, with Henry having to leave Linus for a much bigger and stronger engine called Samson. Linus being relegated to working on an isolated abusing and harsh mountain line, he becomes very miserable. However Samson proves to much for a trestle bridge and ends up dangling at the end of it, luckily Linus mustering all his strength manages to rescue and save everyone, but in the process becomes so damaged he is unable to work. But the story ends on a happy note as Henry decides to rebuild Linus, with the two continuing to work together like old times. It won best animation at the LA Shorts Film Festival, qualifying for the 96th Oscar Academy Awards.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_Locomotive The music was composed by Tom Hambleton in 2009.
Currently the short film has its own website, and plushie of Linus was announced in late 2023https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1FbspK_Z_Tf2DyQypJ7K3ruit2YjkpdY (being approved on 27 May 2024). It is the fourth most popular video on the channel, after Wild West - which has 12.3 million views, 43K views, and 1,682 comments as of 10 June 2024 since it's upload on 3 January 2011.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBgfSse3LIA Wild West was produced for the 2007 Minneapolis AICP by Make, LLC as an intro and it to features a sentient American tender engine, though a much more abrupt and grimy character, this short is 5 minutes long.
==References==
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