Art's Animations

Art's Animations, previously known as Belarusball, is an animated Russian-language YouTube channel. The channel broadcasts animations based on the famous Internet meme Countryballs, also known as Polandball, and other creations of the author. The channel was created on April 9, 2014. At the moment, 193 (excluding members only and private videos) videos have been uploaded to the channel, most of them are dedicated to Countryballs.

Almost every video has subtitles in different languages of the world, until September 2020, which subtitles for newer videos now only include English and Russian.

Art's Animations is currently one of the popular Countryballs channels on YouTube, as the work of this animator is watched from almost all countries of the world.

History
Artyom Sayevets was known in the VK Abyss group Countryballs for his comics about Belarus, and decided to try to make animation. On April 1st, 2015, he made the first animation about Belarus in GIF format. Later he makes other animations.

On April 9th, Artyom created a channel titled "Belarus ball", and later on June 28th, the first animation "Test". In the future, he released 4 issues of Countryballs and Intro.

On October 17th 2015, the video "History of Belarus", which is currently the third most popular video on the channel, was released. This video also used a new style of Countryballs and improved the quality of animation. Soon, Artyom adjusts the name to "Belarusball". On February 6, 2016, Belarusball made his first issue with a new voiceover. Also with the advent of new, high-quality releases at that time, he hid all his old animations.

On May 8, 2016, "Victory Day" was released, which has gained considerable popularity.

On July 10, the video The Collapse of the Titanic is released. This video was the first on Art's Animations channel that had nothing to do with Countryballs.

On September 27, starting with the release of the Hour of Viyni, cartoons use new and better animation and with high-quality voice acting (however, it was introduced in another 10 issues). This style of animation is still used to this day.

On October 27, a long animation is released on the Took binoculars channel. And on November 1, the channel celebrates 10,000 subscribers.

Later, by the New Year, on October 31, animation Poland, New Year and company are released. And in the new year, views and subscribers have increased rapidly on the channel. And on January 15, 2017, the channel received 20,000 subscribers, on February 11, 30,000 subscribers.

On March 12, Artyom announces the restart of the History of Belarus in the public. According to him, the new version will contain accurate historical data, high-quality backgrounds and high-quality animation. On March 18, the channel celebrates 40,000 subscribers and in honor of this Belarusball releases a teaser "Guistories of Belarus".

While working on History, Artyom begins to often hold streams, on which he makes paintings on the VK wall for donations or draws them to order during the collapse. Currently, streams also often come out.

On August 10, the longest and most anticipated animation on the channel is released - History of Belarus with a length of 23 minutes.

Soon Belarusball begins to get carried away by the humanization of countries, because of which it decided to create a public of Poland and a company in which it now posts his arts in humanized countries.

On September 10, the channel has 90,000 subscribers. In the evening of the same day, Artyom decides to change the name of the channel and talks about it in the VK public. As Artyom said, his name does not allow you to go beyond the KB, and the name itself associates with the country of Belarus than with the channel. He is conducting a survey on this issue, as expected, a much larger part opposed the change of name.

On September 11th 2017, a much larger part opposed the change of name. At 15:00, September 11, the voting ended, but Belarusball's plans remained in force, which is why he decided, despite the voting, to change the name of the channel to Art's Animations. Many users were upset at Art's Animations in the comments under the post due to this name change. In the end, Artyom got tired of it all and he decided to leave everything as it was. Fans later calmed down and the reformation of the channel failed.

On September 29, a teaser of the Reich project is released on YouTube The worst nightmare in Belarus. On October 4, Reich himself comes out, but rather its first part. The episode itself left several secrets, from which the audience arose theories. Also, this episode was the first episode of the second season.

On October 6, Artyom decides to carry out a second reformation of the channel, in which he will change the name of the channel. He does it during the stream. In the end, at about 16:00 Moscow time, he changes its name from "Belarusball" to "Art's Animations". Also, Artyom draws a new avatar, which he also updates to the channel and his VK page.

On October 11, the channel celebrates its anniversary! 100,000 subscribers! Art's Animations was the first and currently the only Countryballs-themed channel to gain such a number of subscribers. In honor of this, he releases the promised video Answers to Questions.

Design
The design of the channel mainly prevails in red shades. In New Year's time, there are more blue shades.

The design of the channel looks like the inscription "Art's Animations" written in Old Slavonic font, white. The inscription glows slightly in scarlet color. On the background there are stripes in various shades of red, which are darker at the edges and closer to the center are connected in a light shade. On the right are joyful Poland and Belarus. On the left is a Rearangle looking at both.

In New Year's time, the cover is slightly changed. Stripes are depicted in various shades of blue, which are darker at the edges and lighter closer to the center, darker stripes in the very center. On the right are joyful Poland and Belarus in New Year's hats. Poland holds a lit Bengal candle that slightly covers the inscription. On the left there is also a Reichtangle with snow on its head.

The avatar of the channel depicts a country of Belarus with a white-red-white flag and a painted Artyom, on a white background with a red stripe. The background of the avatar is also similar to the white-red-white flag of Belarus, as it depicts stripes in shades of red. There are white shades along the edges, and closer to the center they are combined in red. New Year's Ava is distinguished by the fact that Belarus wears a New Year's hat.

The description of the channel sounds like this:

"Welcome to the Art's Animations Animation channel! Here you will see animations about the Internet meme Countryballs and Polandball, sketches and much more! Subscribe and click on the bell so you don't miss new videos!"

Content The Art's Animations channel is animated. All videos on his channel are author's animated series. Art's Animations also often streams on its channel.

The channel has the main Countryballs show, animations about the Polandball Internet meme. There is also a video and other plan on the channel. There are rubrics: Sketches, Life of the God of Egypt

Hidden Countryballs (Spring-Summer 2015) Test Intro Lunch in Kazakhstan Revised Got into a swamp Egiptan power (Egyptian power) COUNTRYBALLS (2015 present) History of Belarus PYRAMID THERE ARE ALREADY 1000 OF US! Happy New Year! Difficult question In search of oil Bolivia can't go to sea Victory day French fries Where is he?! Difficult situation History of Ancient Egypt Polska może An hour of viney Took binoculars The light is gone Poland, New Year and company Sketch: FROST S Border at the castle Travel to Italy THERE ARE ALREADY 40,000 OF US!!! Ice Merechevshchina THERE ARE ALREADY 50,000+ OF US! The worst nightmare in Great Britain Giant Giza A minute of silence History of Belarus Russia is lost Veishnoria The worst nightmare in Belarus Реич Q&A Brotherhood First rebuff Escape Apocalypse Reich (episode 26) Republic of Korea and New Year Chinese wisdom Comrade's Secret History of the Belarusian People's Republic Russia is going to India Breaking news What is Mongolia thinking about? Skiing The Tale of Muscovy and the Smolensk Princess Peace treaty Adventures of Great Britain Germany wants romance New Year's cutlets The enemy on the horizon 5 minutes Ancient times Changes Pushcha Plague party COUNTRUBALLS mini (2017-2019) Egypt is changing its religion Gathering of Russia The threat The Baltic States solves problems Aggressive fauna CONTRYBOLZ (2017-N.v.) Bombs Poland is saving The True Heir of Russia (CONTRYBOLZ mini) Greek power (There are in issues No. 32, No. 33, No. 34, No. 35, No. 41 at the end)

Animation style Artyom Sayevets makes his animations in Adobe Flash Professional CS6. Most often, it depicts country-shars, whose style has changed several times.

Stranošary First style The very first style of animation appears in ordinary GIFs that Artyom released in his VK group. Being the first, he was quite uneven. There were no separate textures of the ball, emotions of the eyes, mouth. Flags were drawn by hand and were quite bright colors, which did not correspond to their real colors. With the release of the Lunch of Kazakhstan, the countries have mouths.

Currently, all videos with this style are hidden from the bottom, they are opened on important days for the channel.

Second style The second style first appeared in the video History of Belarus and was used as the main one for a long time. This time the ball became more even, the unevenness only gave it originality. The eyes have also become originally drawn, as well as their textures of different emotions. The mouth became smoother and had several textures. It appeared in this form for the first time in the complex question series. Flags are taken from the Internet this time, so they carried the right colors.

They wanted to replace it twice, but only for the second time it was changed to a more quality design.

Third style The third and current style to this day. He first appeared in the Hour of Viyna. The animation of suchballs is better than the previous one. The ball has also become smoother and thinner in contours, also forming its style. The eyes also changed their style, they became thinner and more drawn. Mouths have also been replaced with high-quality ones. Flags were also applied in a new way. They were now bend around the ball, creating volume.

Backgrounds and objects First style For a long time, Artyom did not bother about drawing other objects and backgrounds in the video. His style has not changed since the very first Test to the Difficult Situation. The most distinctive feature was the presence of thick contours. Artyom drew with the mouse by hand, which is why they were often shown crooked. The color scheme was mainly in "acid" colors. I always drew myself. I always drew the object myself and did not lean on the detail.

Interestingly, in the video History of Belarus, the author decided to use vectorization instead of drawing backgrounds and objects, which looked relatively beautiful at that time, although it looked "machine-machine".

Second style Soon, starting with the video History of Ancient Egypt, Artyom decided to create his own new style of drawing. He adopted the idea from the style of photos of ancient Egyptian gods from Wikipedia. The main distinguishing feature was the lack of contours and a large drawing of details. The new style of the gods was much detailed, unlike the first one, which many viewers liked.

With the advent of the graphics tablet, starting with the video Journey of Italy, the author began to draw much better in his style, which made his animation more pleasant to show. Detailing has become at the highest level. Very high-quality selection of colors. Great similarity to real objects from real life. It was rare to notice an empty background in Art's Animations video, you can always notice high-quality items and backgrounds.

In social media Vkontakte Art's Animations has its own VKontakte public. It is the main workplace of the channel. In the public you can find out information about upcoming videos, known dates and jokes related to the channel. There are also albums where you can see Easter eggs, subscriber theories, decoding of hidden ciphers and author's works discovered by viewers. This group also includes all Artyom's author's works related to Countryballs, such as "50 Facts about Belarus", "History of Belarus", "In the Pyramid" and many others.

Interestingly, after the reformation of the channel, Artyom decided to leave the name of the public "Belarusball" to appease the indignation of subscribers.

VK Artyom himself...

Facebook Art's Animations also has a Facebook band. Artyom announces the existence of the group on May 18. The group contains information about upcoming videos.

Google+ Art's Animations also has a Google+ account. There is no activity in it at the moment.

Патреон Art's Animations is also available at Patreon, where you can support his work financially.

Art's Animations puts the nickname that gave the largest amount in the credits of the new episode.

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