Felix Colgrave
Directing
Biography
Felix Colgrave (born 29 November 1992) is an Australian director, animator, cartoonist, filmmaker, artist, and musician. Distribution of Colgrave's work has, to date, been focused on YouTube where his channel has over 1.7 million subscribers. Colgrave mainly uses After Effects for his animations. As of now, his most popular animation is "Double King" with over 73 million views. Colgrave has been involved in several commercial projects, having worked for clients such as Vice and Comedy Central, as well as for Trip Tank and Off the Air series. He provided some in-game animations for Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 4. Colgrave's YouTube channel has twenty-six of his 2D surreal, psychedelic, animations, half of which have over a million views each. His animation "Man Spaghetti", has been featured on the animation website known as Cartoon Brew. Colgrave has directed a number of music videos, including videos for DJ Mustard, Nicki Minaj & Jeremih's "Don't Hurt Me", Fever The Ghost's "SOURCE", and Shoe's "Egg". He was credited for doing the storyboards for Childish Gambino's music video for Feels Like Summer. Felix Colgrave has been animating since he was a child. One of his first animations, "Last Resort", was created early in 2008 when he was 15 years old. Colgrave's wife, Zoë is a costume and makeup-artist, known as Trugglet on Instagram. They became engaged on 31 October 2016; On 23 February 2019, Colgrave revealed that he has one child with his wife. Currently, he lives in Melbourne, Australia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Felix Colgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
TripTank is Comedy Central’s newest animated experience, executive produced by ShadowMachine’s Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico. The weekly, eight-episode half-hour series, showcases a wide range of fast-paced, hard-hitting animated comedy shorts presented in an anthology style, weaving together stand-alone and recurring narrative pieces.
TripTank
The Elephant's Garden is an animated short made by Felix Colgrave. The short was released in 2013 on Colgrave's official YouTube page. The short won Best Australian Film at Melbourne International Animation Festival in 2014.
The Elephant's Garden
Colgrave rolls out another collection of his crazy, surrealist creatures and this time they are moving to the music.
Flyin' Bamboo
Getting an internship at NASA just to find out that space is fake on the first day, Barber has to navigate their family life, a cult preacher dad and complicated friendships in search of meaning and belonging.
Barber Westchester
A king steals crowns from various other rulers.
Double King
The universe is waking up to itself, prophets are receiving visions, and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance are toppling over. There is an aura of pathetic surrender surrounding you. Armies formed from eating scraps emerge, ready for battle, with powerful weapons fashioned from air, through the effort of their sheer will, realizing that the foe isn't the force it seemed. The fourth film in Jonni Pepper-GoLions' "The Blindfold" series, which includes her films "Wasteland", "Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners", and "Barber Westchester". This film sets up the upcoming finale to the series, "The Cone Layer".
Take Off The Blindfold, Adjust Your Eyes, Look In The Mirror, See The Face Of Your Mother
Ant society awakens after the spring thaw to prepare a royal banquet. This video was directed by Zoë, who also did most of the animating as well as all the painting (but I did some stuff too!)
Side Sidemi
Meet Plumpin! A character from the minds of Ivan Dixon and the team at Studio Showoff. This animated short film premiered at Pictoplasma 2025 and went on to screen at multiple festivals worldwide. It won Best Australian Animation at MIAF. It was scored by Felix Colgrave and animated by Studio Showoff
Plumpin
An exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders. The musical!
Donks
The next film from Felix Colgrave
Wall World
A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.
Throat Notes
A sea beast makes a quick trip to the cornerstore
Dry Run
Here's a little film about a witch. I mostly made it for my kid, but you're allowed to watch it too.
I'm A Witch
A tale of a sandwich wrangler and his blood sacrifice back to the heavens of bread for his brutal sandwich handling. And by blood I mean mayonnaise