How to start learning animation
The path to learning animation starts out with FX animation. Falling, bouncing, swinging objects are all classed as FX and are universally taught at the earliest stages of learning animation.
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 ►►
Bitey gets a grant from Epic!
Prowlies of Brackenwood are fun inquisitive creatures, energetic and constantly at play, even to their final day of life.
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. ►►
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.
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 ►►
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 ►►
My book “Animate to Harmony” will teach you three Toon Boom programs in one book: Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony.
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.
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”.
Dashkin, Bob’s Burgers and Clear Vision 2
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 ►►
Work on the Bitey game is progressing at a decent pace. Sean and I have changed direction once or twice as we figure out ways to accomplish certain things and push limitations of Flash. One thing I’m learning is that in a game we simply cannot overload the Flash Player with insanely intricate vectors that ►►
As my latest contract on Dragon Age Legends winds down and before a new one starts, I want to go crazy on Brackenwood to make some ground on a few things: New Brackenwood Game Over the coming weeks you’ll see screenshots and updates on a full featured, brand new Bitey game which I’m making with ►►
To complement EA/Bioware’s gritty RPG epic, Dragon Age: Origins, EA2D created Dragon Age Journeys. It’s adventure role playing with turn-based combat in the fantasy genre (spells, swords, monsters, etc.) Built with Flash, it’s free and played directly in the browser. EA2D is a division of EA Games. They took Daniel Stradwick, a hugely successful indie ►►
This is the story of the last of the Dashkin.
Learn Flash animation and illustration with these massive eChapters.
ssssh, children.. Listen very, very carefully and you may just hear Santa when he visits your house.
D&D Cartoon #4 – The Red Dragon Interview
D&D Cartoon #3 – The Mindflayer’s Interview
D&D Cartoon #2 – The Tiefling and the Gnome.
By his own actions, the fastest creature in the world is brought to a slow, painful crawl.
D&D Cartoon #1 – Interview with D&D’s iconic dungeon dweller, The Beholder
30 shorts in 30 days. Some day I’ll do another 30. That’s a promise.
Ad agency Biggs Gilmore commissioned me to create this animated video for a Kellogg’s promo song by Ralph’s World.
[swfobj src=”/flash/biteycastle/333am.swf” width=”600″ height=”400″ align=”center” required_player_version=”10″]ugh, Flash Player Required[/swfobj] Another Halloween short. Sorry about the watermark. That’s my old site-locking ActionScript coming back to haunt me.
Is Bitey’s speed any match for the Yuyu horde?
A lost baby morrug finds himself alone in the Brackenwood grasslands.
This very short, scary piece was originally intended as a last-minute Halloween piece in 2004, but happened to finally get done 7 months later.
Bitey goes to the river for a drink, where he encounters 5 prowlies.
Introducing Bitey of Brackenwood. He’s a nasty piece of work!