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Harry Partridge
Personal information
Born (1987-08-17) 17 August 1987 (age 37)
NationalityBritish
Occupations
ParentsAndy Partridge
YouTube information
Also known asHappyHarry, HappyHarryToons
Channel
Years active2004–present
Genres
  • Animation
  • comedy
Subscribers975,000[1]
Total views196,375,777[1]

Harry Partridge (born 17 August 1987) is an independent British animator and voice actor,[2] best known for his 2011 short parody animation Saturday Morning Watchmen. Partridge is largely inspired by Western 1980s animation and has been credited with pushing Flash-based Internet animation toward more traditional animation and away from simple tweening.[3][4][5]

Early life and family

Harry Partridge was born and brought up in Swindon. He is the son of Marianne Partridge (née Wyborn) and Andy Partridge, the latter former frontman and songwriter for the English rock band XTC.[6] Andy has written two songs about or inspired by Harry: Garden of Earthly Delights and the double entendre-heavy Pink Thing.[6][7][5][8] Harry has one older sister, Holly Partridge, who works as a musician and artist.[9]

Partridge was interested in drawing and animation from an early age. He and his father have claimed a character of his design "nearly" appeared as a background character on the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1999, through a connection of Andy's, but that it fell through.[10][8] In an interview at the time, Andy described Harry as a "pudgy-looking kid in glasses" and expressed his hope he would work in the field of animation in the future.[8]

Partridge is an alumni of the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where he graduated from the animation programme in 2009.[11]

Career

Partridge began sharing his work on Newgrounds already in 2004,[12] but starting in 2006 also on YouTube, where he has won "incredible popularity".[13][14][15][16] His major breakthrough came with the short Watchmen-parody Saturday Morning Watchmen, set to an original composition written and sung by Partridge himself. It was released just a day before the US release of the 2009 Hollywood live-action Watchmen film and received widespread media coverage and even positive commentary from the original comic's artist, Dave Gibbons.[17][18][19]

Partridge's animations has consisted of short humorous skits, commonly parodying pop culture phenomenon such as such as video games or other animated works. In American Akira (2008), for example, he parodied the seminal 1988 anime Akira.[20] Many of his videos are accompanied by an original song, usually sung by Partridge himself, for example in Nicolas Cage Wants Cake (2010) and in his two 2011 Skyrim parodies.[21][22][23][24][2]

Among his original popular original creations are Dr. Bees (2013), the episodic series Starbarians (2012-), and Dr. Bees Returns (2021).[25][26][27][28]

While Partridge mainly works independently, he has done animation work for RiffTrax, the BBC, ChannelFlip, and the animated show Hazbin Hotel, among others.[29][30][31][32][33]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Harry Partridge". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b Westbrook, Logan (4 February 2011). "Excitable Elder Scrolls Fan Creates Animated Tribute to Skyrim". The Escapist.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Ben (2017). Independent animation : developing, producing and distributing your animated films. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 9781351599214. The Internet's always been quite segmented in a way, so specific websites that you deal with will have their own preferences. The original ethos was 'Bad equals Good,' which kind of worked back then; it was punk; it didn't matter what it looked like as long as you had the core idea. I think this was carried across on Newgrounds to a certain extent, but their idea was to push yourself and become better, which is why you have people like Harry Partridge and Egoraptor, who really started pushing what Flash could do, more in the direction of traditional animation in many ways.
  4. ^ Amidi, Amid (26 April 2011). "A Response to Harry Partridge's Silly Go! Animate Rant". Cartoon Brew.
  5. ^ a b "Interviews - Interview: Harry Partridge". Kittysneezes.com. 30 December 2016. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b Farmer, Neville (1998). XTC: Song Stories: The Exclusive Authorized Story Behind the Music. London: Helter Skelter Publishing. pp. 143, 239. ISBN 190092403X.
  7. ^ Andy, Partridge (September 2004). "Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6". Virgin Records. When you become a dad you badly want to write about your kids, it's natural, but it seems to easy to fall into the sickly greetings card world overpopulated by well meaning but flatulent fathers. So I thought I'd write about Harry in a way that was utterly unmistakable with thinly disguised filth. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. ^ a b c Tracy, Marshall. "Chalkhills: "An Interview with XTC's Andy Partridge", Manifesto, 5/99". chalkhills.org.
  9. ^ Radio, N. T. S. "Holly Partridge | Discover music on NTS". NTS Radio.
  10. ^ "Harry Partridge ⚡️ on Twitter". Twitter.
  11. ^ "Farnham Animation Alumni". Farnham Animation.
  12. ^ Wilkes, Nathan (18 December 2013). "10 British YouTube Animators to Watch". Skwigly Animation Magazine. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  13. ^ Troftgruben, Chad (2014). Learning Anime Studio. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. ISBN 9781849699587. Artists such as YouTube user Harry Partridge have gained incredible popularity through animated works. You can tell that a lot of time went into crafting each frame to create a fluid and appealing sequence.
  14. ^ Ashcraft, Brian (1 September 2016). "How Western Animation Has Changed". Kotaku Australia.
  15. ^ Amidi, Amid (23 January 2012). "Joe Murray's Kaboing Goes Kaput". Cartoon Brew.
  16. ^ "ASFF - Masterclasses". Aesthetica Short Film Festival. Independent animator Harry Partridge has amassed an enormous online cult following with his creation of iconic cartoon characters such as Dr. Bees, the Starbarians and Trilby Dogtooth.
  17. ^ Robinson, Tasha. "Who watches the '80s Watchmen children's cartoon?". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  18. ^ Moran, Michael (21 July 2009). "Dave Gibbons talks about the Watchmen DVD, and staying out of the water". The Times (via archive.org). Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009. But you have seen Saturday Morning Watchmen haven't you? "Yes! I loved it. The thing is, obviously they're having fun with it but the way it was done, you know that the person really cared about what they were doing…really knew Watchmen in detail"
  19. ^ Goellner, Caleb. "Saturday Morning 'Watchmen' Cartoon -- The Stuff Of Alan Moore's Nightmares?". MTV News. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  20. ^ Schley, Matt. "'Akira' inspires generations of foreign animators". The Japan Times.
  21. ^ "New Skyrim toon by Harry Partridge". Engadget.
  22. ^ Hinkle, D. (February 8, 2011). "Harry Partridge is pretty excited for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim". Engadget.
  23. ^ Hoare, James (11 November 2011). "The Song Of Skyrim fights the corner for epic fantasy". SciFiNow.
  24. ^ Corona, Alberto (17 April 2021). "Del meme al mito: cómo Nicolas Cage se convirtió en un dios para Internet". ElDiario.es (in Spanish).
  25. ^ Mo, Alesya (10 August 2018). "Razones por las que echamos de menos a Harry Patridge". WATmag (in Spanish).
  26. ^ Neafcy, Paul (23 April 2015). "Save Animation: How 'Watch Time' Is Endangering YouTube Animators". TenEighty Magazine.
  27. ^ Wilkes, Nathan (18 December 2013). "10 British YouTube Animators to Watch". Skwigly Animation Magazine. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  28. ^ Bartkewicz, Anthony (9 March 2009). "'Watchmen' Reimagined as Kids' Cartoon". Fox WFXT. Archived from the original on 24 March 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
  29. ^ "RiffTrax Animated Intro". 19 September 2014.
  30. ^ "BBC - Harry Partridge, Series 1, Attic Junk". BBC. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  31. ^ Thair, David. "BBC - BBC Comedy Blog: I Can't Believe It's Not Beatles Rockband - download the track". www.bbc.co.uk.
  32. ^ "BBC - Harry Partridge, Johnny Depp in Burtonland". BBC.
  33. ^ Laughlin, Andrew (11 August 2011). "ChannelFlip becomes biggest UK broadcaster on YouTube". Digital Spy. Retrieved 15 September 2021.


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