#bitey of brackenwood

[fooloftheunknownworld]

In all honesty, the goats in AHiT always reminded me of Brackenwood's Bitey. If you look at their faces, you can see why.

[horizonjv]

Bitey/Venom

[heayn]

a couple years ago i made a series of drawings of classic newgrounds characters leading up to pico day.

i forgot to post them here then so here they are now.

[your-fav-is-food]

Bitey from Brackenwood is food!

Requested by: Anon

[video320]

You know, I see you on Twitter and Tumblr. How come I never see you on Newgrounds?

Oh man, i dont think ive even visited Newgrounds in the last decade. I used to love that site. I know people uploaded illustrations there. Is it really worth it though? If youre not doing animation? Or do you mean community-wise just commenting and stuff? Did that Bitey of Brackenwood guy ever do more or finish that game?

[animutate]

also. i will never forgive them for making one of the characters in pico sim date 3 bitey of brackenwood but if she was a girl with her tits out.

[microbihon]

Newgrounds Boyzz in Summer 🌊🌞 NGSummerfest 2021 was so fun! I had happy moments, cool moments, funny moments, sad moments (sniff Piconjo’s confessions ;_;) and I even had a very embarrassing moment too:

I mean honestly whats a convention experience without your vey own cringe moment. See you next summer ✌

[shnowlan]

Bitey of Brackenwood! I remember being totally blown away by this web-toon when I first saw it years and years ago. Highly recommend this beautiful, unique and endearing series to everyone!! 🌳

[colliewolf]

Fuck it. Have a doodle dump

[radwolf76]

FLASHBack: Week 82 [Bisected-Month Brackenwood] - Littlefoot

It's the middle of July so FLASHBack is off on another visit to Brackenwood, the fantastical world created by former Disney animator Adam Phillips. This month's animation, Littlefoot (No, not that one), was released by Phillips on his Bitey Castle website on 5 November 2005, and then posted to Newgrounds three days later on November 8th, where it was Frontpaged, and won the Daily Feature and Weekly User's Choice awards. This chapter of the Brackenwood Saga focuses on the bigfoot-like Morrugs, in particular a pint-sized juvenile of the race, hence the title. The story opens with Littlefoot's parent frantically searching the forest and calling out for them, and Adam uses some shots in this sequence to demonstrate depth-of-field effect, where the "camera's" focus is narrowly limited to the subject of the shot at the particular moment. We then cut to a scene of some Brackenwood wildlife, a feathergnat being eaten by a petalfly, which then floats off, jellyfish-like. (The petalflies were originally called Umbrellaflies, but Philips changed the name, reasoning that Brackenwood doesn't have umbrellas.)

The petalfly attracts the attention of the missing Littlefoot, who goes bouncing down a hill after it and then follows it into a grassy field clearing. The scene then cuts to Bitey, who is being his usual horrid self, until he's confronted with a spider, which absolutely unnerves him. (The look on the spider's face when Bitey runs off is absolutely priceless.) Bitey's retreat brings him to the same field that Littlefoot is in, and he goes back into brat mode, stalking up on the young morrug just as it's about to make friends with a fatsack. Bitey torments Littlefoot, who flips into berserk mode, eyes going green as a signal for "this morrug's going feral on your ass". We get some more good depth-of-field as the parent, also in a green-eyed angry state, snatches Littlefoot from Bitey with a roar. The dashkin bully can't leave it at that though, and uses his speed to run up, throw a clod of dirt and grass at them and run off again. The morrugs then demonstrate why you don't get in a throwing-things fight with them, by throwing a pair of boulders at Bitey, braining the jerk senseless.

We're then treated to Phillips being an absolute show-off with his lighting work, giving us a gorgeous example of a sunset/moonrise portion of a day/night cycle. But as the moon comes up, an ominous chant begins to arise: "YUYu, YUYu, YUYu..." Out of the darkness, a score of shadowy and twisted humanoid figures with glowing eyes and fangy pointed teeth rise up, and begin speaking in an alien sounding tongue. They note that Bitey is injured, and then declare that they will steal him, ending the animation on that cliffhanger. This ending seems to come out of nowhere, but it was actually hinted at with some very well hidden easter eggs throughout the animation. Phillips had actually made a contest where he had hidden 20 things for the fans to find and screenshot, and the contest went unwon, because no one found them all (the prize was a copy of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and a Bitey T-Shirt). A handful of the hidden easter eggs were early appearances by the creatures at the end.

Adam also included an homage to the controversial SFX/SEX dust scene from The Lion King, a face hidden in the thrown boulder, and a reflection of Bitey in Littlefoot's eyes. Most of the easter eggs hidden in this Flash however, were messages written in a constructed language that Phillips had invented for Brackenwood, called Sarus. Sarus is an evolution of an earlier 19th century real-world ConLang, Solresol. Both use the Do-Re-Me-Fa-So-La-Ti pitch nomenclature (known as Solfège). While Sarus is based on variants of those seven syllables, it could alternately be communicated with their corresponding musical notes, a color spectrum, or even hand gestures. (The same association of notes, colors, and hand gestures also applies to Solresol, which was used as the basis of Earth's attempts to communicate with the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.)

For this animation's easter eggs however, he used a written form of Sarus called septaglphys in which the syllables of a Sarus word were represented by pen strokes made from corner to corner of a seven sided polygon. The first few septaglyph easter eggs were just instructions on where to look for further easter eggs, but then Phillips began foreshadowing the cliffhanger ending, with phrases such as "la miflyt mirek mimrum / the hills have eyes", "la lafyd laf la somid / the lady of the night", and "dorlyt laf la soruf / people of the shadow". (More or less -- the word "laf" translates to "of" in the earliest versions of Sarus, but this was later changed to be Sarus for "less". In the most recent versions of the language, "of" is translated as "remir".)

There was also a Sketchpad easter egg at the end, featuring lineart concept drawings. When Philips first released the animation, he billed it as Part 1 of 2, and hidden past the sketchpad was a note in Sarus septaglyphs that said that the story is not finished. As it turned out though, this particular story arc was big enough that it wouldn't get finished in part 2 either. Part 1 would be the last time that Adam would compose and record his own music; subsequent Brackenwood Flashes would feature outside music talent.

That wraps it up for now. Next week, we'll continue on seeing what kind of flash Flash animation could come from too much spare time.

[fooloftheunknownworld]

Goddam why must he be so fun to draw?

[nelfs]

as a kid growing up online i always loved those Bitey of Brackenwood animations on newgrounds and watching them now i'm like hmm yeah that checks out. this was literally just the predecessor to the illidan obsession

[mutantmorphingpotions]

your jub jub drawing reminds me a TON of flash animation legend bitey of brackenwood, 10/10 i would not trust these small predators as far as i could throw them

Jubjubs are real and they're rooting around our garbage cans like racoons. Put lids on your trash bins people-They WILL bite

[canmom]

tekkonkinkreet was incredible, highly recommend if you’ve not seen it. i expected great animation and gorgeous backgrounds but it hit pretty damn hard on an emotional level as well. all the more hype for the dorohedoro adaptation. also i’m gonna do another post with some of the polish short films we particularly enjoyed.

for next week��s animation night i’m thinking of doing something a little different. the focus is going to be (for want of a better term) ‘indie’ web animators. not necessarily amateur since many of the people i’m thinking of have done paid animation work (generally in the music video space), but people who primarily work on their own (outside of VA) and release their work for a web audience, whether on youtube, newgrounds, twitter, vimeo or similar.

a lot of student films and arts grant funded films also make their way onto the web sooner or later (if you’ve not seen the gobelins film school channel you should definitely check it out!), but what i’m going for here is a sort of nebulous sense that the web audience is 'primary’, or that the person is in community with other web animators. and especially teams of like, one or two people at most.

for some examples of the kind of animators I’m thinking of (and a few things they’re known for):

felix colgrave (double king)

vewn

cyriak harris

temmie chang

guldies

adam phillips (bitey of brackenwood)

betsy lee (no evil)

toastyglow

sambakza (there she is)

now i reckon that’s a shockingly incomplete list, so I’d welcome suggestions for filling it out! (and yes this is absolutely an excuse to fish for recs for cool animation :p )

[also the blender open movies might fit here, they don’t really fit the parameters outlined but they feel close enough ish]

[animblog]

Littlefoot – 2006 Adam Phillips 6:36

[noot-d-schaf]

also something i did years ago. Bitey from the Brackenwood series by Adam Phillips. i LOVE his animations!