TomSka
| Thomas James Ridgewell | ||||||
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| Born |
27 June 1990 Essex, England | |||||
| Nationality | British | |||||
| Occupation | Filmmaker, video blogger, actor | |||||
| Website |
www | |||||
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| Pseudonym | TomSka | |||||
| Channel name | TomSka | |||||
| Years active | 2006–present | |||||
| Genre | Comedy | |||||
| Subscribers | 4 million (25 March 2016) | |||||
| Total views | 801.6 million (24 April 2016) | |||||
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Thomas James "TomSka" Ridgewell (born 27 June 1990)[2] is a British comedian and YouTuber, best known for Internet video series asdfmovie and Eddsworld.[3] As of March 2016, his YouTube channel has over 4 million subscribers and his videos have garnered over 800 million views.
Early life and education
As a child, Ridgewell began making short films using his parents' video camera. Not long after YouTube was established, Ridgewell created CakeBomb, a website on which he posted his video creations. , including his friend's Eddsworld, and his first asdfmovie. Ridgewell graduated from the University of Lincoln,[4] and while there created a series of unofficial "advertisements" for the university which received millions of views.[5]
He was raised a Jehovah's Witness, but no longer practices this faith.[6] Despite this, he has expressed hope for a higher power.[7]
YouTube career
A professional YouTuber, Ridgewell earns money from revenue from his videos on the website.[8] He has been discussed and interviewed in relation to this, especially when the medium of online video was in its infancy.[2][9] He has also appeared as a guest on the BBC's The One Show, and has appeared as a radio and TV guest internationally.[10]
In 2008, Ridgewell released the first installment of asdfmovie, an animated sketch comedy series featuring very short clips of minimally-detailed characters in surreal and occasionally darkly humorous situations. There have been nine episodes, the latest having been uploaded on 7 August 2015.[11]
In 2012, he took charge of the production of Eddsworld after the show's original creator and his friend, Edd Gould, died of leukemia. He left the series in 2016, handing the show over to Edd's family.
In 2013, Ridgewell was featured in YouTube's first "Comedy Week".[12]
He was featured on the cover of Wired UK in February 2013 as part of a feature titled "How YouTube Reinvented the Entertainment Business"[13] and was selected by YouTube as a guest host for its Geek Week series in August.
The BBC announced that Ridgewell will be appearing as a guest presenter on the Dan and Phil show from September 2014 on BBC Radio 1.[14][15][16]
Ridgewell spoke at the VidFest UK London Comic Con in 2014.[17]
In January 2015, Ridgewell launched a new webtoon, Crash Zoom, on his TomSka channel. It is animated by Ben "Wonchop" Smallman, who also animated some of the asdfmovie episodes.[18] It features three young characters, Lucy, Ben and Kate, and their various surreal exploits.[19]
Other projects
In 2014, Ridgewell, in collaboration with Pixel Spill, created the game KatataK, a side-scrolling shoot 'em up for iOS and Android devices.[20]
In 2015, Ridgewell worked with animator Matt Ley to create Art Is Dead, a comic book based on, and featuring adapted sketches from, his asdfmovie series.[21][22]
Books
- Art is Dead: The ASDF Book (2015, Little Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780751563047)[23]
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL6985xJnfU
- 1 2 "YouTube UK: 20 of Britain's most popular online video bloggers" The Guardian
- ↑ "Between Comedies, TomSka Also Educates His YouTube Fans". Jessica Klein / 17 August 2014. VideoInk.
- ↑ "Former University of Lincoln students to guest present on Radio 1" By RCousins_LE 27 August 2014 Lincolnshire Echo.
- ↑ "Appointment to view: The University of Lincoln goes viral". Brand Republic.
- ↑ "The Day My Faith Died" YouTube
- ↑ "7 Facts About TomSka YouTube
- ↑ "The Tom Ridgewell show: the 22-year-old making £10,000 a month from his bedroom on YouTube ". London Evening Standard
- ↑ "YouTube star TomSka 'makes thousands' every month". By Dan Whitworth. BBC Newsbeat
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hLCjzjOvs, retrieved 6 September 2015 Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ TomSka (7 August 2015), asdfmovie9, retrieved 27 February 2016
- ↑ "YouTube's Comedy Week shows how much comedy has changed". The Telegraph.
- ↑ "Talent Tube: how Britain's new YouTube superstars built a global fanbase" WIRED
- ↑ "New youth presenters for Radio 1". BBC
- ↑ Lewis, Tim. "YouTube superstars: the generation taking on TV – and winning". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Radio 1 to hire 'YouTube-famous' vloggers to broadcast online ". The Independent.
- ↑ "TenEighty at Vidfest UK MCM ComiCon". TenEighty Magazine.
- ↑ DarkSquidge (26 June 2015), I'M NOT AN ANIMATOR, retrieved 27 February 2016
- ↑ TomSka (9 January 2015), CRASH ZOOM - Movie Massacre, retrieved 27 February 2016
- ↑ "KatataK". www.katatakgame.com. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ DarkSquidge (11 September 2015), WE MADE A BOOK (Art is Dead reveal), retrieved 27 February 2016
- ↑ DarkSquidge (29 October 2015), ART IS DEAD IS OUT!!!, retrieved 27 February 2016
- ↑ "Art is Dead : The asdf Book". Book Depository.com. Retrieved 12 September 2015.