Brackenwood boss Adam Phillips has already unloaded the contents of his brain into his online Animation Academy, and now he’s turning to video. Never doing anything halfway, Phillips has begun uploading a 33-part demonstration of his process of animating in Flash CS3. He uses scenes from The Last of the Dashkin, which he released at the end of last year, and while it’s not delivered as a tutorial, you can surely pick up some great tips. Here’s part 1:

With the Brackenwood feature under way, Former-Disney artist Adam Phillips still found some time to knock out a new short. While still a big fan of Toon Boom, Phillips animated this short in Flash over a 4 week period, and it is the first to feature a voice-over – all quite professionally done, I might add. We learn a great deal here about one of Adam’s most famous characters – Bitey. And we also get more world-class effects, like this inset water shot (a rough animation screen grab illustrating some digital onion-skinning). Head over to Adam’s website to view The Last of the Dashkin (11 mb Flash file).

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Australia’s Adam Phillips (Brackenwood series) recently teamed up with writer/voice actor Ryan Miller on a new short for Wizards of the Coast. It’s titled Lady of Pain (referencing the D&D character), and in this short our host Mike tries to win her cold hand in a skill challenge. Phillips used Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Animate Pro.

For the Australian mockumentary TV series Kenny’s World, Bernard Derriman was called upon to create a number of interstitial animated segments. His weapon of choice on this project was Toon Boom, and Derriman brought on his friend and countryman Adam Phillips to help with effects animation and backgrounds. A half-dozen of these are over on YouTube, and below are two of my favorites:

Kenny’s World – Bears

Kenny’s World – Japan

Using his new copy of Toon Boom Animate Pro, Adam Phillips busted out this new short for 4th edition. Demogorgon and the Gnome can be viewed (and downloaded) over at wizards.com, or you can see it below.