About
Poorly made 3D animations are videos or gifs featuring animations made in programs such as Blender or Daz which pertain a poor quality. They are known for being surreal and often humorous.
Precursor
During the 1990s, animations were introduced to ten-pin bowling alleys and would play on the leader board every time someone bowled. While these did not circulate the internet, they were also known for their poor quality and surrealism.
Origin
One of the first poorly made 3D animations was ’Colin’s Bear Animation’, an animation made by Colin Sanders for his final assignment for an Animation Arts class. It features a bear dancing to the song “Funky Monkey Dance” from the Nintendo game Mother 3. Sanders friend uploaded the video to Youtube in December 2007 and as of May 2014 it has over 2,250,000 views.
The video was one of the first poorly made animations which was both surreal and considered humorous.
Spread
In 2009 Youtube user ‘wendyvanity’ (now ‘madcatlady’) began uploading poorly-made animations made in the 3D animation program Daz, due to the bizarre nature in the videos (which included text-to-speech voice acting) she gathered a small following.
Her most popular video so far is “meow! sad toy cats.wmv” which as of May 2014 has 700,000 views on Youtube. Her videos “Meow meow I am a cat” and “Tom R. Toe” are also quite popular.
Numerous other Youtube users have since uploaded many surreal videos using text-to-speech to Youtube. Some popular ones include ‘seinfieldspitstain’ and ‘ratboygenius’.