• The Final Moments

    The Final Moments

    Ever wonder what happened to the people of Brackenwood? Why is Bitey the last of his kind? This new image depicts the final moments of the Dashkin, Viccans and Trogues as a portal opens from another world and the Yuyu suddenly appear. What happened next? We don’t yet know! If you’re interested in watching the ►►

  • 2D in 3D process

    As you may know the Prowlies Wildlife Documentary was a “test project” to see how well I could integrate 2D animation in UE4 environments. When it was complete, it was featured on the Twitch Community Spotlight and got some attention on Twitter. I attached Prowlies to my Epic MegaGrant application as a “prototype of a ►►

  • An EPIC update

    An EPIC update

    Bitey gets a grant from Epic!

  • BWDS 2: Prowlies

    BWDS 2: Prowlies

    Prowlies of Brackenwood are fun inquisitive creatures, energetic and constantly at play, even to their final day of life.

  • The Viccan's Hideout

    The Viccan’s Hideout

    Lemonee of Brackenwood lives deep in a forest hideout, safe and hidden from the Yuyu invaders. Protected by the forest’s magical defenses, she has everything she’d ever need to survive alone here until the end of her life should she choose to do so. But as a young girl she saw her people taken by ►►

  • Sploosh

    Here’s the first test scene for the next Brackenwood wildlife doc featuring prowlies. The animation was done entirely in Toon Boom Harmony. The top half is a background still from my UE4 river environment. The lower half is all hand-drawn 2D, including water FX, shadows, reflections and creature animation. Surface movement and underwater refraction was done ►►

  • Game Over

    Game Over

    Due to a severe clash of personalities and wildly divergent goals and priorities for Brackenwood, the working relationship deteriorated beyond repair and I made the decision to end the Dashkin project on Oct 24, 2018. At its heart, Brackenwood is the story of the last of his kind; a lone dashkin exploring an empty world. ►►

  • Moving a castle

    If you’re a member of the FX course or an otherwise regular castle visitor, you may have noticed some things have changed in the past few days. An ex-colleague has kindly taken some time aside from his work to help me move the site. As anyone knows, when you roll a huge old castle to a ►►

  • Patron rewards

    Patron rewards

    The Brackenwood Patreon continues to grow and real progress is being made on the Last of the Dashkin sequel. Here are two of the physical rewards I’ve been working on for the Brackenwood patrons. The video below is a short time lapse of the card ink process. I’m using metal Hunt nibs and black Parker Quink.

  • You'll Never Guess!

    You’ll Never Guess!

    If you follow me on Newgrounds and social media, you might have seen that Brackenwood is making a return this year. After the cancellation of the Dashkin game and me being promoted at work, Bitey seemed to have no future. In years past, he was so real in my head that I could even have ►►

  • We've Been Waiting

    We’ve Been Waiting

  • The Point of No Return

    The Point of No Return

  • Into the Void

    Into the Void

  • Dashkin dies in the end

    Dashkin dies in the end

    2009 In December 2009, I released The Last of the Dashkin and promised fans that it wouldn’t be another 3 years before the next Brackenwood story. 2010 In November 2010, I messaged Sean McGee to ask if he was interested in working with me on a Brackenwood game. My plan was that the game would be the next ►►

  • Amateur to Expert

    I recently received an email from a young fella who said he was feeling out of sorts for a direction in life and he asked me about how I got to where I am today. In fact over the years in emails, conversations and interviews, I’ve answered this many times in different ways so I thought ►►

  • A2H - now available!

    A2H – now available!

    My book “Animate to Harmony” will teach you three Toon Boom programs in one book: Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony.

  • Almost Here

    Almost Here

    My Super Saiyan gif goes viral for the second time, declared by Josh Levin of Slate mag as “The greatest gif in the history of gifs”. Also, my book, coming in Sept 2014.

  • From Animate to Harmony

    From Animate to Harmony

    Whether you use Animate, Animate Pro or Harmony, my upcoming Toon Boom book will get you started. It’s called “Animate to Harmony: The Independent Animator’s Guide to Toon Boom”.

  • Falling up

    The release of Toon Boom Harmony 10.3 brings amazing new blur and turbulent noise effects.

  • Checking in, up and out

    Checking in, up and out

    Dashkin, Bob’s Burgers and Clear Vision 2

The Final Moments

 Posted by at 2:48 pm  3 Responses »
Mar 032020
 

Ever wonder what happened to the people of Brackenwood? Why is Bitey the last of his kind? This new image depicts the final moments of the Dashkin, Viccans and Trogues as a portal opens from another world and the Yuyu suddenly appear. What happened next? We don’t yet know!

Click the image to get the 4k desktop wallpaper resolution

If you’re interested in watching the movie being animated from the ground up, join me live on my Twitch stream every weekend. I’m making great progress, currently around three-quarters through the forest chase sequence. Last weekend I reached the milestone of two whole minutes of animation complete, which is around 15% of the finished movie’s projected running time.

New Patreon Reward

Over on the Brackenwood Patreon I’ve updated the $6 tier with a new reward; a monthly preview link of the latest work-in-progress of animation. Not only can you watch the latest completed scenes every month, but you can also step through the video frame-by-frame, leave comments on the scenes and even draw diagrams on the frames! You can help me find and fix stuff like continuity errors, missing character parts or anything that doesn’t quite look right. Of course, you can also leave other comments, like pointing out your favourite scenes or character expressions.

2D in 3D process

 Posted by at 6:38 pm  1 Response »
Jan 182020
 

As you may know the Prowlies Wildlife Documentary was a “test project” to see how well I could integrate 2D animation in UE4 environments. When it was complete, it was featured on the Twitch Community Spotlight and got some attention on Twitter. I attached Prowlies to my Epic MegaGrant application as a “prototype of a ►►

The Viccan’s Hideout

 Posted by at 1:46 pm  2 Responses »
Mar 062019
 
The Viccan's Hideout

Lemonee of Brackenwood lives deep in a forest hideout, safe and hidden from the Yuyu invaders. Protected by the forest’s magical defenses, she has everything she’d ever need to survive alone here until the end of her life should she choose to do so. But as a young girl she saw her people taken by ►►

Above and Below

 Posted by at 10:57 am  2 Responses »
Dec 062018
 

My latest project is the Brackenwood Wildlife Documentary Series where I introduce Brackenwood wildlife in short documentary-style episodes with voice over narration. The first episode was Fatsack, the second episode under construction is Prowlies. Update Dec 11, 2018: The completed scene, now with creature animation and finishing touches. All the animation and FX are animated ►►

Sploosh

 Posted by at 11:14 am  2 Responses »
Nov 262018
 

Here’s the first test scene for the next Brackenwood wildlife doc featuring prowlies. The animation was done entirely in Toon Boom Harmony. The top half is a background still from my UE4 river environment. The lower half is all hand-drawn 2D, including water FX, shadows, reflections and creature animation. Surface movement and underwater refraction was done ►►

Game Over

 Posted by at 12:56 pm  12 Responses »
Nov 112018
 
Game Over

Due to a severe clash of personalities and wildly divergent goals and priorities for Brackenwood, the working relationship deteriorated beyond repair and I made the decision to end the Dashkin project on Oct 24, 2018. At its heart, Brackenwood is the story of the last of his kind; a lone dashkin exploring an empty world. ►►

Unreal Brackenwood

 Posted by at 6:08 pm  8 Responses »
Jun 082017
 

As you may know, Brackenwood is a 2D animated series created in vector animation software. I started making early Brackenwood in Flash (Adobe Animate) and now in Toon Boom Harmony. Like most cartoon-style 2D, characters are generally outlines filled with colour. The result is often called ‘cel-shaded’ effect. I’ve been super excited about the prospect of dynamic ►►

Moving a castle

 Posted by at 2:20 am  3 Responses »
Apr 282017
 

If you’re a member of the FX course or an otherwise regular castle visitor, you may have noticed some things have changed in the past few days. An ex-colleague has kindly taken some time aside from his work to help me move the site. As anyone knows, when you roll a huge old castle to a ►►

Learn Harmony 14 from scratch

 Posted by at 12:58 pm  3 Responses »
Dec 022016
 

Most weekends I stream my current projects on Twitch. In December 2016 I conducted a couple of Q&A Toon Boom Harmony demonstrations, aimed at those Flash animators who wanted/tried to learn Toon Boom but never quite clicked. This stream covered almost all the basics, but there are still many features to see. One thing I ►►

Patron rewards

 Posted by at 10:28 am  3 Responses »
Apr 092016
 
Patron rewards

The Brackenwood Patreon continues to grow and real progress is being made on the Last of the Dashkin sequel. Here are two of the physical rewards I’ve been working on for the Brackenwood patrons. The video below is a short time lapse of the card ink process. I’m using metal Hunt nibs and black Parker Quink.

You’ll Never Guess!

 Posted by at 7:46 pm  15 Responses »
Mar 222016
 
You'll Never Guess!

If you follow me on Newgrounds and social media, you might have seen that Brackenwood is making a return this year. After the cancellation of the Dashkin game and me being promoted at work, Bitey seemed to have no future. In years past, he was so real in my head that I could even have ►►

Dashkin dies in the end

 Posted by at 9:30 pm  54 Responses »
Jun 232015
 
Dashkin dies in the end

2009 In December 2009, I released The Last of the Dashkin and promised fans that it wouldn’t be another 3 years before the next Brackenwood story. 2010 In November 2010, I messaged Sean McGee to ask if he was interested in working with me on a Brackenwood game. My plan was that the game would be the next ►►

Amateur to Expert

 Posted by at 11:50 pm  8 Responses »
Dec 152014
 

I recently received an email from a young fella who said he was feeling out of sorts for a direction in life and he asked me about how I got to where I am today. In fact over the years in emails, conversations and interviews, I’ve answered this many times in different ways so I thought ►►

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