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Click the Castle		 Brackenwood series - 12th Annual Webby Awards, 2008
Official Honoree in 2 Categories: Motion Graphics & Animation. 		 
       
  the Last of
the Dashkin 		  4:30 - 11.2MB  
         
  waterlollies  

Where did he come from - this fleck of spite in an abandoned paradise? Who is this peace-shattering scourge of the forest?

He is the last of the Dashkin, but in the rough language of wild creatures, he is known only as Bitey

 
         
     
   
     
  Waterlollies   9:00 - 12.7MB  
         
  waterlollies  

Bitey's short-sighted arrogance lands him in a world of hurt and the fastest creature in the world is brought to a slow, painful crawl.

Newgrounds sponsorship made it possible for me to secure the amazing services of Nathan McCree.
According to IMDB:

"Nathan McCree has been heralded as the best composer in the computer games industry for the last 10 years."

  
      Winner: 2007 Newgrounds.com Movie of the Year  
     
  LittleFoot   6:40 - 7.7MB, preloader and Play button  
         
 

 

Part one: Bitey (pictured) encounters a lost little bigfoot. It's dangerous out there all alone in the Brackenwood grasslands! The conclusion to "littleFoot" is below.


Netsurfer's Official Selection: Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2006
Winner Cartoon Category: Flash Forward, Seattle 2006

  
       
the Yuyu   3:30 - 8.4MB, preloader and Play button  

 

Part two: Is Bitey's speed any match for the Yuyu cloud?
Music written and recorded especially for this movie by James Walbourne and legendary Pogues whistle-player, Spider Stacy.


Winner Cartoon Category: Flash Forward, Austin TX, 2006
Animation World Network "Best of the Web Showcase 2007"

 
         
  Prowlies
at the River 		  6:45 - 50kb, preloader and Play button + a deleted sequence (!)  
   
   

Something happens to Bitey's personal water supply so he goes to the River for a drink. There he finds the place occupied by Prowlies and decides that he'll have some fun with them. But Prowlies can be very dangerous when provoked, especially in numbers.


Winner: Flash Foward, San Francisco 2005
Grand Prize Winner: TGSNT 2, 2005

  
         
  Bitey of
Brackenwood		   4:05 - 700kb, preloader and Play button  
   
   

Introducing Bitey of Brackenwood.. he's a nasty piece of work. This movie took the RunnerUp prize in the first TGSNT in San Francisco, March 2004.


Runner-up: TGSNT 1, 2004

  
         
  Bingbong of
Brackenwood 		  3:13 - 270kb, preloader and Play button  
   
   

Introducing Bingbong of Brackenwood.


Finalist: Flash Forward San Francisco, 2004

  
         
  Auld Sage   1:28 - 30kb, no preloader or Play button  
   
   

My first music clip. Make sure you read the introduction on the preloader. I'm hoping I won't get my arse sued off by EMI but I'm not making money from it so... uh... anyway, here's the obligatory copyright notice:

Music: "Life is for living"
from Coldplay's album 'Parachutes'
© 2000 EMI RecordsLtd.

  
         
 
 

All animation in these movies is made with Adobe Flash software - on the timeline, frame-by-frame and tweened animation.

All audio effects are either recorded by me or purchased from various sound effects websites.

Music for early Brackenwood movies was created by me with Sonar 3 and a MIDI keyboard. More recent episodes feature music created especially for Brackenwood by the credited artist.

       
       

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