Garrett Animates

Garrett Lewis, better known online as Garrett Animates, is an American YouTuber, animator, filmmaker and VFX artist who is known for his short films and animations, including his Chirpmails series. He currently works as a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios, who animated for certain movies such as Frozen II, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and Raya and the Last Dragon.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4496097/
== Personal Life ==
When Garrett was a child, he used to love making films a lot.https://www.garrettanimates.com/about As his obsession grew, he would attend to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a BFA in Film & Television and a Web Applications Minor from 2009 to 2013. He would later attend to AnimSchool for Body Acting from December 2015 to March 2015.https://www.garrettanimates.com/resume
=== Work Experiences ===
* David Bell Studios - CG Intern (April 2012 - July 2012)
* Little Airplane Productions - Teaching Assistant (July 2013)
* The Artery VFX - CG Animator (August 2013 - February 2014)
* Caliber Media / First Take Films - Maya Generalist (May 2014 - June 2014)
* F84 Games - Lead Animator (November 2014 - September 2015)
* DreamWorks Animation Studios - Crowd Animator / Anim TA (September 2015 - November 2017)
* DreamWorks Animation Studios - Character Animator (November 2017 - April 2019)
* Walt Disney Animation Studios - Character Animator (April 2019 - Present)
== YouTube History ==
Garrett created his channel on November 5, 2017 and created his first two videos on the same day, both titled "Speed Model - Woman" and "Speed Model - Boy", which showcases the modeling of characters in faster speed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4lN9ztUFT8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZZCXgjtSI He then would post a video on May 24, 2019 titled "How To Train Your Dragon 3 - Shot Breakdown" where he would not post another video for the next 3 years.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gAbmEFzpRI
Garrett then starting posting again on December 11, 2022 with a video titled "My friend received a voicemail from his Dad, and I animated it", where he made an animation of his friend's voicemail from his Dad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmLSSNC6Nk He later posted more animations of voicemails, to which he would call the series "Chirpmails".https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwmhCW1iehz6PcRFfTLbeTfT_mcg4ca93 In this series, a bird would speak to the phone to leave a voicemail for someone while the animation provides someone else's voicemail as the audio for these clips.
== Trivia ==
* Garrett loves to surf.https://www.animationhappyhour.com/about
== References ==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017