It seems that short and to the point animations are really popular, perhaps evidence that our collective attention spans are getting sorter but who knows. Animations like asdfmovies are made up of a series of clips that are only a few seconds long. These videos bring in tens of millions of views so they are clearly very popular. Also the art style is extremely simple but it still has a unique visual appeal.
Domics is also a very popular animation channel on Youtube with nearly 400,000 subscribers and was featured on the 10 Top YouTube Animation Channels (2013 Edition) . It as a very similar style to asdfmovies in art direction and length.
Cyanide & Happiness was initially a series of popular comic strips and was then successfully made into sort animations. There short and sweet with a catchy punchline and they have a simple
So it's clear to me that that simple 2d animation is very popular at the moment so that is likely how I will produce my animation. Also the length of these animation are very short or they are are series of short clips. My animation will be a series of short clips also. Humour is also very prevalent in these popular animations so I will try my best to make my animations short and funny.
