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Dragon Age: Legends, EA’s popular Facebook game, includes an intense opening cinematic that was animated by none other than Adam Phillips. It was animated over 48 days using Animate Pro 2.

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Adam Phillips, the mastermind behind the Brackenwood saga, is getting set to release his Daskin game (which he created along with Sean McGee). Below you’ll see the opening cinematic for the game, and soon you’ll be able to play it for free at bitey.com. Phillips used Toon Boom Animate Pro to create the animated elements. In the final freeze-frame shot, most of you will spot the game’s title, but it is laid in there subtly.

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Adam Phillips, who is nearly finished with his game, Dashkin, which now has a sponsor. He’s producing the art assets in ToonBoom Animate Pro, and exporting SWFs into Flash. Sponsor contracts are being drawn up for this pairing, and in the meantime, Phillips found time to produce a music video for Cilla Jane, a Melbourne-based independent singer/songwriter. You’ll recognize Phillips’ signature style, but we’re introduced to a few new characters in this video, which was also produced in using ToonBoom. The track is titled Into the Woods, which you can buy on iTunes.

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Australian animation maestro Adam Phillips designed and animated this new D&D promotional short. It coincides with the launch of the 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons Red Box, a starter set designed to welcome new players into the RPG. Phillips used Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Animate Pro 2 to bring this short, titled RedBox Ninjas, to life.

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Last Friday we posted Cedric Villain’s submission for the Annecy 50th Anniversary contest on YouTube. While that was a well-executed short, I’m going to predict that the winning submission was posted today. It’s by Bernard Derriman, the brilliant animator from Sydney, Australia. You know him from his series Arj and Poopy and the dozen other shorts we’ve posted of his shorts we’ve posted here throughout the years. Playing off the theme of “birthdays or celebration,” Derriman has uncorked an excellent little film. Pop pits a chicken versus a fox in champagne-soaked battle that should have the judges drunk with enthusiasm. Derriman had help from long-time friend, and fellow countryman, Adam Phillips, who helped launch the bazooka champagne effects.

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