The Animator

what gave you the idea to make TheAnimator and how long did it take?

I did.

Something like 12 years and counting

It's named after a favourite toy I had as a kid. This thing toytales.ca

Haha, I can still remember the jingle it played when you turned it on youtu.be

oh those look cool actually ive never seen them

I have never seen another one in the wild. It was just called The Animator in the UK. (Not "The Etch a Sketch Animator" like in the video)

Dan now I have a question for you. What do you do as a full time job. And also Do you watch our animations

I'm a software engineer/programmer. At the moment I work in the UK, but on the American Peacock TV website. I do the bit that takes your credit card to pay for Peacock among other things.

Yes. I watch your animations. Someone needs to keep an eye on you.

Wow. I barely get any money for my job, also that makes sense for some people. This is in fact a family friendly place. For the most part anyway.

I just checked, the first recorded code commit for (the old version) website was 13th Dec 2010. The code is older than that, because that commit was me moving my source code from an even older storage system.

Wow. That is....... interesting

Eh, maybe not - I registered my username in the database on the 18th Dec 2010, so it's from around then I guess - at least in its first usable form.

ok

oh thats neat i use peacock a lot :0

You've been giving money to Dan and you didn't even know it

I consider it a fair trade when I can’t actually watch peacock in this country 😅

dan you just seem so wholesome i love it- ✨