Ross O'Donovan

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Ross O'Donovan
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O'Donovan in 2015
Personal information
BornRoss Kenry O'Donovan
(1987-06-17) 17 June 1987 (age 34)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
  • Animator
  • cartoonist
  • voice actor
  • Internet personality
Partner(s)Giwi (2019–present)
Spouse(s)
Holly Conrad
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(m. 2012; div. 2018)​
YouTube information
Also known asRubberNinja
Channel
Years active2004–present
Genre
Subscribers593 thousand[1]
Total views24.7 million[1]
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers 2013
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers
Updated: 23 June 2021

Ross Kenry O'Donovan (born 17 June 1987), also known as RubberNinja and RubberRoss, is an Australian animator, voice actor, and Internet personality. He is known for his solo work as a Twitch streamer, as well as his YouTube and Newgrounds cartoons and animations. He co-hosted the internet show Steam Train, a spin-off of YouTube Let's Play webseries Game Grumps.[2]

Career[]

Animation[]

After graduating from Corpus Christi, O'Donovan studied and instructed animation at the Film and Television Institute of Western Australia in Fremantle, Western Australia.[3] O'Donovan's best known work is the series Gamer Tonight, which is voiced and co-written by animator Arin Hanson, and was produced for the ABC2 video game-based program Good Game.[4] The series features a fictitious talk show called Gamer Tonight with Richard Farkas, whose host would interview various types of gamers.[5] He also created the show Gameoverse, which featured Hanson in every speaking role. Gameoverse has since been put on hiatus, though O'Donovan has confirmed the series will return.[6] O'Donovan started animating on Newgrounds, under the name "RubberNinja." He then moved his animations to YouTube, but as a result of not being able to keep the username RubberNinja, he went under the name "RubberRoss." In January 2014, he received possession of the name RubberNinja, and uploaded a video on his old channel telling subscribers to transfer over to his new one. This video has since been removed.

In 2016, O'Donovan and Holly Conrad were invited to Conrad's alma mater, UC Santa Barbara, to discuss their careers on YouTube at the Graphic Voices conference hosted by student organizations at the university.[7]

Game Grumps[]

O'Donovan (right) with fellow Game Grump members Suzy Berhow (left), Arin Hanson (bottom center), and Barry Kramer (top center) in 2015

After Jon Jafari's departure from Game Grumps in 2013, Hanson launched a second show on the Game Grumps platform, originally conceptualized by O'Donovan,[8] called Steam Train. This would replace a then-empty timeslot. Ninja Sex Party vocalist Dan Avidan joined O'Donovan as co-host of the show, where both play PC games (the title references the retailer Steam). This broadened the channel's output to three videos a day: on average, two standard Game Grumps episodes, and a single Steam Train episode. With the introduction of the show's second season, the parameters of Steam Train were expanded, allowing for O'Donovan and any member of Game Grumps to co-host (as opposed to only Avidan).

In addition to this, O'Donovan has acted as a co-host of other shows from the Game Grumps platform, including Grumpcade, Steam Rolled, and Hunting Monsters. O'Donovan was also a frequent guest on Table Flip. He has also authored multiple content-related animations for Game Grumps Animated.

Personal life[]

Ross Kenry O'Donovan was born on 17 June 1987 in Perth, Western Australia to Irish parents. He graduated from Corpus Christi College.[9] His sister Rebecca is a journalist in Australia, and is married to Australian cricketer Shaun Marsh. On 29 September 2012, O'Donovan married Holly Conrad (born 22 May 1986), a cosplayer, propmaker, and special effects artist who was featured in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, as well as Heroes of Cosplay.[10][11] On 19 September 2018, Conrad and O'Donovan announced on their respective Twitter pages that they would be splitting up amicably due to reasons connected with Conrad’s recent move to Seattle.

On 9 April 2021, O’Donovan announced on Twitter that his mother had passed away due to lung cancer.[12]

Philanthropy[]

In June 2015, O'Donovan launched a 5-episode miniseries, released on the Game Grumps channel, called Guild Grumps. O'Donovan mentored 4 members of the Game Grumps crew in a 5-day race to advance from Level 90 to Level 100 in the Warlords of Draenor expansion of World of Warcraft.[13] Each participant had $1,000 to donate to a charity of their choice, if they reached the goal. If they did not, their donation would be split between those who won. In the end, O'Donovan was the sole winner, and, combined with the participants' distributed funds, donated $5,000 to cancer research.

As of 2015, O'Donovan and Game Grumps have raised over $70,000 by hosting charity livestreams on Twitch.[14]

Filmography[]

Web series[]

Year Title Role Notes
2009 There Will Be Brawl Excitebike Hooligan Episode: "Pandora's Box"
2012–2013 PeanutButterGamer's Hardcore Series Himself 7 episodes
2013–2021 Game Grumps Himself (voice) Co-host of Steam Train
2015 Did You Know Gaming? Episode: "Super Mario Maker"
JonTron's StarCade Ross Leader 2 episodes
2015–2016 Red vs. Blue Ross/Deuce (voice)
2020 Meta Runner Announcer Episode: "One Shot"
2021 Scott the Woz Himself Episode: Borderline Forever

Video games[]

Year Title Role
2017 Paradigm Double Denim Bridge Troll[15]
Pinstripe Mr. Dicky
2019 River City Girls Shinji[16]
2020 Shantae and the Seven Sirens Bolo[17]
TBA Hex Heroes Himself[18]

Music videos[]

Year Title Artist Ref
2014 "Why I Cry" Ninja Sex Party
"Peppermint Creams"
2015 "Minecraft is for Everyone" Starbomb
2016 "6969" Ninja Sex Party
2021 "The Mystic Crystal"

References[]

  1. ^ a b "About RubberNinja". YouTube.
  2. ^ Welcome to Steam Train!
  3. ^ "FTI 2008 Annual Report" (PDF). 6 April 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Newgrounds - Gamer Tonight".
  5. ^ "Good Game - Gamer Tonight". ABC. 7 April 2008.
  6. ^ "Gameoverse Reboot Confirmed".
  7. ^ "Graphic Voices Showcases New Media". The Daily Nexus. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  8. ^ "A Personal Message From Ross". reddit. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  9. ^ O'Donovan, Ross (12 August 2014). "@takingbackbeccy yeah I believe it was applecross. I didn't go there though, I was a Corpus Christi boy myself".
  10. ^ Cassandra. "Holly + Ross' Space and Time Wedding - When Geeks Wed". When Geeks Wed. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  11. ^ "Ross O'Donovan". IMDb.
  12. ^ O’Donovan, Ross (8 April 2021). "This morning my mother passed peacefully surrounded by family. It gave me great pain not being able to be there due to Covid. Today I took one of her paintings and my Dad's song for her to make this. RIP Annette O'Donovan. I love you so much".
  13. ^ "Guild Grumps Trailer". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Guild Grumps: Episode 5". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  15. ^ Jacob Janerka [@JacobJanerka] (17 March 2017). "Super stoked to announce that @RubberNinja from @GameGrumps has a bit part in Paradigm voicing Double Denim Bridge Troll. #gamedev" (Tweet). Retrieved 16 March 2017 – via Twitter.
  16. ^ O'Donovan, Ross (5 September 2019). "I did the voice of Shinji in @WayForward's new game #RiverCityGirls!". @RubberNinja. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  17. ^ O'Donovan, Ross (6 June 2019). "I didn't get to post about this on release day, as it didn't feel like a good time to do so. But I gave voice to Bolo in Shantae and the Seven Sirens! I've done small voices for Wayforward before, but I was super honored they asked me to do him for the new game and it's cutscenes". @RubberNinja. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  18. ^ Long, Shawn (23 April 2014). "Hex Heroes Attains Kickstarter Goal". Nintendo Enthusiast. Enthusiast Gaming. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

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