Felix Colgrave (born 29 November 1992) is an Australian director, animator,

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and

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. Distribution of Colgrave's work has, to date, been focused on

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where his channel has 1.67 million subscribers. Colgrave mainly uses

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for his animations. As of now, his most popular animation is "Double King" with over 73 million views.

Work

Colgrave has been involved in several commercial projects, having worked for clients such as ''Vice'' and

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, as well as for

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and

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series. He provided some in-game animations for Bethesda Softworks'

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. Colgrave's YouTube channel has twenty six of his 2D surreal, psychedelic, animations, half of which have over a million views each. "DOUBLE KING", has over 50 million views as of February 2021. Colgrave also created the music for the DOUBLE KING animation, which he released as an album known as ''Royal Noises from Dead Kingdoms''. His animation "Man Spaghetti", has been featured on the animation website known as Cartoon Brew Colgrave has directed a number of music videos, including videos for

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's "Don't Hurt Me" Fever The Ghost's "SOURCE", and Shoe's "Egg". He was credited for doing the

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s for

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's music video for Feels Like Summer. Colgrave was interviewed at the

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with hosts from

and

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Awards and recognition

The animation "CU" has won the best of the month award on the video-sharing website

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. His follow-up work "Flying Bamboo" was also featured as the opening for the

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. "The Elephant's Garden" won "Best Australian Film" at the

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in 2014. - interview with

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and Alex Grigg It has also gained exposure to the public from various web sources. Both "DOUBLE KING" and "The Elephant's Garden" are featured in the book titled ''Australian Animation: An International History''.

Personal life

Felix Colgrave has been animating since he was a child. One of his first animations, "Last Resort", was created early in 2008 when he was 15 years old. Colgrave's wife, Zoë is a costume and makeup-artist, known as Trugglet on Instagram They became engaged on 31 October 2016; On 23 February 2019, Colgrave revealed that he has one child with his wife. Currently he lives in

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, Australia.

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