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.jpg) Cyriak in 2010 | ||||||||||
| Born | Cyriak Harris | |||||||||
| Nationality | English | |||||||||
| Other names | Cyriak Harris[1] Mutated Monty[2] Mouldy | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2004–present | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2006–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 2.91 million (combined)[3] (16 January 2025) | |||||||||
| Views | 852 million (combined)[3] | |||||||||
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| Genres | Electronic | |||||||||
| Labels | None | |||||||||
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| Website | cyriak | |||||||||
Cyriak Harris, knownmononymously asCyriak (/ˈsɪriæk/),[6] hisB3ta usernameMutated Monty, andMouldy in theDoom community, is an English freelance animator, artist, composer, and author fromBrighton. He is known for hissurreal and bizarre short web animations with the frequent use of theDroste effect.[1]
Cyriak has been a regular contributor to the British websiteB3ta since 2004.[7] His YouTube channel was launched in March 2006.
Cyriak's YouTube account features a compilation of his animations, which have been popular throughout theblogosphere and noted byWired's Eliot Van Buskirk.[8] Most of his videos are made withAdobe After Effects andFL Studio.[9] Cyriak's animation "MOO" has featured on the front page ofWired. His 2009 video "poo pants" features an animated sample of broadcasterAlan Titchmarsh singing a repeated refrain (a pitch-shifted excerpt from children's music artist Ann Austin's "The Poo Song") from the bowls of a series of toilets, some of which fly through space.
As a freelance animator, he has been commissioned by thevideo sharing websiteSumo TV, and a music video forGrand Popo Football Club, among others.[10]
Cyriak made the "Spaceology" animation in the third episode of the fourth season of the TV seriesThe IT Crowd and the "Goth to Boss" animation in the sixth episode.[11][12] In 2015 he created the opening credits for theNetflix seriesW/ Bob & David.[13]
Cyriak has directed a number of music videos, including videos forBonobo's "Cirrus"[14] andBloc Party's "Ratchet" in 2013,[15]Flying Lotus's "Putty Boy Strut" in 2014,[16]Run the Jewels’s "Meowpurrdy" in 2016, andSparks' "The Existential Threat" in 2020.[17] His videos "Baaa" and "meow mix" have amassed more than 100 million views. Other popular uploads on his channel include "Welcome to Kitty City," "Cycles," and "7 billion."
Long before Harris started creating animations, he composed a considerable amount of surreal music.[18]
On 19 August 2008, Harris uploaded a music video of the song "My Territory" byGrand Popo Football Club. It features a landscape that has been made entirely out of a woman's body, and is a metaphor for consumerism and the treatment of the female body.[19] On 9 September 2009, British illusionistDerren Brown, live on UK television, claimed to predict theNational Lottery numbers. Cyriak uploaded a possible explanation, to his YouTube channel, which gained half a million views within a week and attention from national press.[20]In September 2010 he appeared at "Flash on the Beach" in Brighton and in September 2014 appeared at "Reasons to be Creative", also in Brighton.[21]
In December 2013, he released themod "Going Down" for the 1994first-person shooterDoom II.[22][23]
In March 2018, he started working on a partlycrowd-funded bookHorse Destroys the Universe.[24][25] The book was published in September 2019. It is about scientists who experiment on a horse named Buttercup until they are given superhuman intelligence, until they eventually become an omnipotent being and destroy the universe.
On 8 February 2020, Cyriak showcased his music for the first time, as he performed as adisc jockey at theZanzibar Club inLiverpool.[26][27]
In August 2022, he released anotherDoom II mod titled "Overboard".[28]
On 3 December 2009, Cyriak was announced as the winner of the 2009 E Stings competition, run by television channelE4, with £5,000 for his videoRecursive Culture.[29]
In 2006 he also received a special mention in the results of aPhotoshop contest run by the technology seriesClick.[30]
In 2012 and 2014 he was awarded with twoCacowards, an annual online awards ceremony which honours the year's most prominentmodifications ofDoom, being recognized for his outstanding level design and sophisticated technical approach to achieving complex sequences and impressive comedic timing.[31][32][33]
In 2022 he was awarded with another Cacoward for his mod "Overboard", which was praised for its silliness and fast-paced gameplay.[34]
In 2016, Cyriak accused fast food chainMcDonald's of plagiarizing his animated video "cows & cows & cows". The studio that animated the advertisement,Buenos Aires-based Juan Solo, openly admitted that they used Cyriak's work as "reference". After Cyriak's tweets about the theft went viral, the advert was pulled. The original video, featuring dancing cows, had received more than 67 million views.[35][36]
| Year | Song | Artist |
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| 2007 | "Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit)" | Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons |
| 2008 | "My Territory" | Grand Popo Football Club |
| 2010 | "We Got More" | Eskmo |
| 2011 | "True Loves (Cereal Spiller Remix)" | Hooray for Earth |
| 2012 | "Yellow Bridges" | El Ten Eleven |
| "Putty Boy Strut" | Flying Lotus | |
| 2013 | "Cirrus" | Bonobo |
| "Ratchet" | Bloc Party | |
| 2015 | "Wind and Rains is Cold" | Cardiacs |
| 2015 | "There's Good Cud" | Cardiacs |
| 2015 | "Occupy" | Gong |
| 2016 | "Meowpurrdy" | Run the Jewels |
| 2017 | "UFOholic (Acid Abduction Mix)" | Denki Groove |
| 2019 | "Like and Subscribe" | Adam Buxton |
| 2020 | "The Existential Threat" | Sparks |
| 2022 | "Betray" | Light |
| 2024 | "Polkamania" ("Helena Polka" segment) | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
growing cult following for his brilliant bursts of surrealism and drollery ... notably winning awards for his sting designs for E4, and for TV ads ... miniaturist genius
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