Zach King is a very famous American personality. He is also a filmmaker & an illusionist based in Los Angeles. He is well recognized as a magician for his amazing “magic vines”, which are six-second videotapes digitally edited to look as if he is actually doing magic tricks. He calls his videos “digital sleight of hand.” He began posting his works on YouTube in the year 2018 & by 2013 he also began to post his videos on Vine.
His works are flawless & they will completely blow your mind away by leaving the curiousness in your mind about how did it happen?
King broadcasted his first video to TikTok in 2016 and has since lured over 68.2 million followers, driving him to the list of the fifth most-followed person on the platform.
King’s Early Life & Education
King was born on February 4, 1990, in Portland, Oregon. He is of half Chinese descent from his paternal side, one-quarter Austrian, and one-quarter Nicaraguan descent from his maternal side. King was homeschooled by his mother along with his three sisters & one adopted sister, while his father functioned in their home office. He got graduated from Biola University with a Cinema and Media Arts Major in December 2012.
He was a big fan of filing & shooting. Therefore he filmed his first video on his home video camera when he was just seven at the age. He bought video equipment including a Mac computer, cameras also a tripod, and started making and editing videos at the age of fourteen itself.
Zach’s Career
At a very small age, Zach generated a passion for filming. He so liked it that from the age of seven Zach began making videos for his most energetic audience – which was his family. But his life took a 360-degree turnover when Zach was a freshman in college. One of his most wonderful videos, “Jedi Kittens”, was viewed over a million times in less than 24 hours. With this hurried viral triumph, Zach noticed the opportunity to tell his unique tales to a vaster audience. With the continuation of his content creating videos for his YouTube channel. He also started sharing his videos on Vine and it wasn’t long before he had over 4 million supporters and became known as the “Digital Magician”.
Now with the prestigious title & over 25 million fans around the internet, Zach and his team create magical videos and convey new stories to the world. King also started his website FinalCutKing.com in the year 2008, to propose training and tips about operating the editing software Final Cut Pro as he was not able to find tutorials for the software on the Internet for himself, so he decided to help others. Moreover, at the same time, he began using his YouTube channel to deliver tutorials for visual effects operating the Software. And with the gain in the audience for his website, he initiated selling training seminars and used that money to pay for his college fee. In December 2019, King stumped the internet with a video of his own basically flying on a broomstick. The video was viewed over 2.1 billion times on TikTok in just 4 days.
King’s Awards & Attainments
- In the year 2009 – First place in London Film Festival for HP promotion
- Also in the year 2009 – Critic’s Choice Award at Bridgestone Tires’ Safety Scholars Teen Driver Video Contest.
- In the year 2010 – First place in London Film Festival: Heartbrand Advertisement
- Also in 2010 – Bridgestone Safety Scholar Winner
- In the year 2012 – Vidcon Golden Poop Award
- In the year 2013 – YouTube’s NextUp Creators Contest
- In the year 2016 – Shorty Award for Best Vine Artist
