2014
We started out as a comedy YouTube channel producing original content.
2015
COMPANY ESTABLISHMENT
After growing a Youtube channel to over 6K followers and 25K+ followers on Twitter, we were getting tons of requests for animated work. It was at this point, I decided to turn the brand we’d built on Youtube into an LLC.
2016
Our Achievements
This was the year we started signing with larger clients such as Tai Lopez, Whatnot Toys {Kitty Club and The Zomblings}. We won 3rd Place via a NewGrounds.com animation competition. Malachi Staples was also interviewed on Fox News in Oct of this same year.
2017
On the Rise
We work with a myriad of large companies in 2017 such as Anthem Blue Cross, Mercuri App, and Starset. We also did an animation workshop for students at Sol-Con and tabled at a comic fair for black and brown creators hosted by OSU College.
2018
Our Victories
Some of the biggest clients we had this year were Tokyo Jetz, the US Army, and the YouTuber Grizzy Gatta. The video we made for Grizzy has gained over 31 million views to date. We also created a remote internship program for students looking to learn animation. Malachi was also interviewed by Fox News a second time and appeared as a panelist at Cartoons Crossroads Columbus.
2019
This year we had the honor to work with AT&T, Nike, and the actor/comedian Aries Spears. One of our client’s animation, Abe’s Mu Adventure, was picked up by Amazon Prime. The same film was a finalist in Couch Film Festival and semifinalist in the New York Animation Film Awards.
2020
Our Achievement
As tough of a year as this was for everyone, we managed to find the silver lining. We completed one of our biggest and most ambitious Internships. We teamed up with an Instagram Comic influencer Corygiyolk and did an animation about the global pandemic. We also did a Sol-Con Animation Presentation (Link). We are now working on three cartoon series at the same time. The team has doubled in size and have worked on Tiktok animation as another skill in our studio’s tool belt.
2021
The Expansion
2021 was another excellent year for us. Our clients got their second animated short film, "iWish" placed on Amazon Prime and won 3 film festivals (CHINH India Kids, Best Shorts, and Couch Film Festival).
We are excited to announce we have added a Tiktok Growth department to the studio. We have grown two accounts to 100K+ followers within a month this year and several tiktok clients by 10s of thousands of followers throughout 2021. Our top animation tiktok client video hit 7 million views and 1 million. Also, a non-animation client hit 12 million views on one video, and his follower count is now almost half a million followers. Going into 2022, we will be helping more clients grow on Tiktok.
We have also joined forces with other studios to expand our studio's output of productions further.
- Puppet Animation Studio
- Tradigital Animation Studio
- Background Art & Game Design Specializing Studio
- Explainer Videos Studio
- 3D and CGI Studio
- Pitch Deck Master Specialist and Pitch Coach who was a former Network Executive and Animation Studio Owner as well
With these new partners, EssenceCartoon is now in an even better place to help our clients reach their goals much quicker than ever before!
2022
3D Animation
"We completed a 3D animation project for a wine company now sold at Walmart nationwide and an animation project for the WWE. Additionally, one of our client productions, Casper, was accepted into the Am Docs film festival. Iwish (another client project), which won three film festival awards, was accepted into the Sydney Film Festival. We also started working with Universal Music Group (UMG) and also began work on the Cheeky Panda Series in the UK."
We are excited to announce we have added a Tiktok Growth department to the studio. We have grown two accounts to 100K+ followers within a month this year and several tiktok clients by 10s of thousands of followers throughout 2021. Our top animation tiktok client video hit 7 million views and 1 million. Also, a non-animation client hit 12 million views on one video, and his follower count is now almost half a million followers. Going into 2022, we will be helping more clients grow on Tiktok.
We have also joined forces with other studios to expand our studio's output of productions further.
- Puppet Animation Studio
- Tradigital Animation Studio
- Background Art & Game Design Specializing Studio
- Explainer Videos Studio
- 3D and CGI Studio
- Pitch Deck Master Specialist and Pitch Coach who was a former Network Executive and Animation Studio Owner as well
With these new partners, EssenceCartoon is now in an even better place to help our clients reach their goals much quicker than ever before!
2023
Walmart & Nascar
In 2023, we worked on a variety of exciting projects across different industries. For Walmart, we produced a commercial for Earthgrown Wines, while for Nascar, we created a dynamic 3D billboard display. We animated the new Mr. C character for Xtramath and developed video game assets for the band Ice Nine Kills. Additionally, we created the video for Bon Jovi's "Christmas Isn't Christmas" and designed music visualizers for Jessie Reyez. For Universal Music Group, we produced a Christmas Holiday Branding Kit, and we also crafted album artwork for Sleazy World. Our work extended to testimonial videos for Frito Lays and the intro production for Nick Cannon’s Classic in Session series. It was a creatively fulfilling year with a wide range of impactful projects.
