Created on September 20, 2015, vewn is a YouTube channel created by Victoria Vincent, an artist from California with iconic art style. There, she started uploading animation videos, with the first video uploaded on October 12, 2016, titled pizza movie with a length of 1:21 minutes. It’s about a guy recording a girl, a pizza maker, telling how much she enjoys making pizza. The animation left viewers with mixed feelings of sadness, confusion, and disruption. This is what makes vewn an interesting animator.
Her animation’s unique art style and unsettling plot allow her viewers to interpret her works in many different ways. With the most viewed video titled dead end, uploaded on April 17, 2019, is a story about an industrious nihilist teenager and his gambling-addicted high school counsellor with a short run time of 3 minutes and 30 seconds — this animation is depressing and almost relatable in a way.
Vewn’s longest work Twins in Paradise tells about twin tennis players Marcy and Darcy struggling with themselves while they’re on the eve of a big championship. Bringing subjects including addiction and mental struggle. The animation’s also backed by an astonishing soundtrack from R.I.P. makes it a perfect trippy and bitter animation with a total run time of 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
She had a total of 960k subscribers as for now on YouTube. Most of her animations are very short, with a colorful and catchy art style that attained so much in such a short time. The experience always felt like a whole movie. It is a refreshing style away from the usual animation movie that we enjoy, and a plot so intriguing and unpredictable in just a few minutes. Vewn’s eerie-eccentric art style mixed with a bright and colorful palette is a fresh breakthrough for the art enthusiast audience.
