My real name is George but I go by "wavetro" online. I'm from the United States. 🇺🇸
I used to make free 3D animations for the internet. Nowadays I post various other videos.
🍼 1999 - Hopped off the battle bus.
💻 2001 - I shit you not, my first word was "computer."
🐤 2005 - Made comics in MS Paint and PowerPoint as a drooling child.
🌐 2007 - Watched my first ever YouTube video and also got introduced into making websites with the free Wordpress blog builder. I picked the username "coolernow123" because I thought it sounded cool.
📀 2008 - A friend introduced me to filming movies with my mom's point-and-shoot camera and editing them with Windows Movie Maker. I made lots of plush videos and burned them on blank DVDs for my family to watch.
🎬 2010 - Discovered stop-motion animation from an iCarly episode and posted my first-ever internet video via the website for Gogo's Crazy Bones, the toy series that starred in the video.
▶️ 2011 - Registered my first YouTube channel "coolernow123" after the old Gogo's website was shut down.
2012 - Went on a crazy journey of building a super-dedicated fanbase of 1,000+ Gogo's stopmotion lovers following the adventures of Angiru, Fist, and Codi. People still ask me for new coolernow123 videos (or make similar ones) to this very day. Holy shit.
📦 2014 - Grew tired of stopmotions as I entered high school. I ended them and started learning Blender to turn Angiru, Fist, and Codi into a 3D-animated show called idiots.exe. This is when "RobotUnderscore" was born.
2015 - This second username and YouTube channel was my personal dark age. I spent many years trying to prove to myself I didn't peak at coolernow123 by creating idiots.exe and other ambitious 3D-animated projects. Nothing I did really took off, and I was ultimately very unhappy.
⚰️ 2018 - I finally killed the channel and continued to make various artworks for a while. (This was the peak of my 3D abilities.) But I still felt creatively unfulfilled, and ended the year with my RobotUnderscore presence completely retired.
💡 2019 - Andy and Bulb, the only episode of cavefolder, was created while I was completely isolated from the larger internet. But due to sudden (beneficial) changes to YouTube and Blender, I decided to return to the public eye once I finished a few more animations. "wavetro" was born.
2020 - Having now returned on a third and final username, I kept experimenting with different 3D projects until I struck gold with "food cart" (which evolved from "i'm eating goldfish.") Despite the shitshow it was for everyone else, this was one of the best years of my life because it was when I finally discovered the Stickmen 2020 video format. The rest was history.
🎓 2021 - After concluding Stickmen 2020 at the show's height, I decided to take the year off to focus on finishing college and finding a job, while occasionally posting random videos on some offshoot second channel.
🕹️ 2022 - I released my final two animated videos featuring the characters Teddy & Ben, calling it quits on my one-man animation career. I also briefly experimented with Babylon.js to make 3D browser games.
✒️ 2023 - Moved out of my parents' house and across the country in search of cheap rent. I also discovered Plasticity and gave vector art a try, but ultimately returned to regularly posting random videos.
❓ 2024 - I have no clue what the plan is right now.
🥚 2010-MAR-31
First video posted via YouTube ("accidental demolition")
🏆 2014-MAY-28
Completed the video series "coolernow123"
🎉 2016-APR-28
Reached 1,000 subscribers on coolernow123
🏆 2016-JUL-13
Completed the comic series "This Is It" via Tapastic (RobotUnderscore)
🥚 2019-MAR-31
First video posted on wavetro ("Andy and Bulb")
🎉 2020-FEB-06
Reached 1,000 subscribers on wavetro
🏆 2020-DEC-31
Completed the video series "STICKMEN 2020"
🎉 2021-MAR-16
Reached 10,000 subscribers on wavetro
📈 2021-APR-04
Reached 1,000,000 total video views on wavetro
🏅 2021-JUN-28
First single video to reach 1,000,000 views ("when you stub your toe")
📈 2023-MAY-05
Reached 5,000,000 total video views on wavetro
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Reach 50,000 subscribers on wavetro...
If there's anything else you'd like me to put on this page, let me know and I might add it.