Wonchop
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| General Information | |
| Real name: | Ben Smallman |
|---|---|
| Age: | 21 |
| Alternative Handle: | none |
| Links | |
| Wonchop | Newgrounds |
| DeviantART | SheezyART |
| Cartoons | |
Wonchop is a British animator who started animation in 2003. He tends to specialize in short flash movies, and is an active member of Newgrounds, Sheezyart and Deviantart.
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[edit] 2003
Wonchop started off with a trial of Flash 5 and, despite little knowledge of Flash's tools, began making short animations, including Clif and Rich, a parody of Weebl and Bob, and Kent the Entertainer. He then used his school's Flash to continue making animations, eventually leading to the first decent lengthed animation, IT Geeks. At the end of 2003, his school friend got him his first website, http://wonchop.hippygeek.co.uk.
[edit] 2004
Wonchop joined Newgrounds at the beginning of the year, his first successful submission being Eels on Wheels. He experimented with Flash more, making movies such as Curly Sam, an experimental video of Baddest Ruffest, and the interactive game, Hit Me!. Later in the year, Wonchop discovered Deviantart, and eventually joined Sheezyart too, making both friends as well as rivals. He also briefly joined the Clock Crew.
[edit] 2005
Drama struck the beginning of the year when Wonchop was accused of art theft, due to uploading an fla that he drew of Joanime's clock character to Clock Crew's current site. This created a huge uproar within the community, which enventually calmed down. He left the Clock Crew and joined the Lock Legion as CloudLock, making animations and collab parts for them. His first Newgrounds award and frontpage was Stirred Not Shaken: TWINE, a cancelled collab part co-written by Zictor. It scored a Daily Feature, Frontpage and Weekly Fourth Award. The next month he released the collaboration, Little Less Conversation, which at the time was the largest collab with 50 artists involved, although was mostly ignored due to the recent surge of multi-author collabs that week. The fourth quarter of the year saw the reappearance of the IT Geeks, which eventually brought together Wonchop, Curly Sam and new character Ruth into one series, starting with the animation, Xmas Inspiration.
[edit] 2006
Wonchop kept a focus on his Flash, producing more of the IT Geeks series, as well as trying new animations such as Bunnycat and Demise of a Match. In the later half of the year, he was called on by jmtb02 to help an artist with artwork in the game collab, Four Second Frenzy, which eventually led to him learning basic keypressing actionscript and joining it and its follow-up, Four Second Firestorm, as well as making the games Cap'n Zappy and Humbuggered, which ranked well in Armorgames contest.
[edit] 2007
At the start of the year, the Star Syndicate infected Wonchop with a virus and hacked some of his accounts on sites such as Newgrounds and Sheezyart. With the help of the respective admin, he recovered some of his important accounts, but lost others such as YTMND. Later that month, Wonchop got hired by Akira the Don to produce the music video [1]. It was a great success, winning Daily Feature, Weekly User's Choice, Review Crew Pick and Top Five Monthly Prize. He released his first 3D animation, LL - Robots Be Fun, and ranked 3rd place in the WiggiWorld contest for his game, Wiggi Dance Academy. In the Autumn, Wonchop started a Visual Communication course, producing a hand drawn short, "The Big Guy", for his animation module.
[edit] 2008
In February, Wonchop managed to get hired by Weebl as an animator for Weebl's Stuff. He also made his TV debut with animations made for The Kevin Bishop Show in July.
[edit] 2009
Wonchop continues to work as part of the Weebl's Stuff team, producing newer episodes of Cat Face, as well as the Narwhals music video.
