| Ralph Damiano |
| Role |
Developer of Stick Nodes |
| Location |
Connecticut, USA |
| Birthday |
February 3, 1991 |
| Twitter |
FTLRalph |
| Youtube |
FTLRalph |
| Other Websites |
My portfolio, My dev-blog |
| Favorite color |
#0096FF |
| Favorite number |
√2 |
| Favorite animated show |
Insert Jojo reference here. Also the Dragon Ball series for sure because that's what started it all. My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone too. Non-anime (kinda) however, the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) too. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones. House gets an honorable mention. |
| Favorite movie |
Not much of a movie person, idk. I did force myself to watch the Marvel movies and they weren't bad to be honest so, yeah, Endgame I guess. |
| Favorite video game |
I don't play much of anything so in terms of nostalgia there's Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. The original Genesis Sonic games are up there too. |
| Favorite food |
Orange chicken but, like, not the authentic kind. More like the sugar-chicken version where it just rots your teeth away as you eat it. |
| Ralph started making Stick Nodes one day because he was bored. He grew up practically addicted to a stickfigure-animation program called Pivot which sparked his interest in both animation and game development.
Eventually he got into Flash animation and Flash game development. He released quite a few games into the Flash gaming community, check out his portfolio for links.
Once mobile devices started taking over, he moved over to attempt Android games. After a few failed attempts, he released Plunder Peril - a quick 2-3 week project that was meant as Android-development practice.
After Plunder Peril, Ralph began work on Stick Nodes and in August 2014, Stick Nodes was released on Android with the iOS version following in November. Stick Nodes is built in Java with the LibGDX framework and uses RoboVM to port to iOS.
Fast forward to March 2020 when he was revising this page and he honestly can't believe Stick Nodes is still going so strong. Onward to world domination...
Fast forward again to August 2023 and really, I haven't been cancelled yet? |
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| Sean Byrnes |
| Role |
Site administrator, comedic relief |
| Location |
NSW, Australia |
| Birthday |
January 26, 1992 |
| Twitter |
S_Byrnes |
| Youtube |
Sean Byrnes |
| Other Websites |
None lol |
| Favorite color |
Yellow. |
| Favorite number |
42 |
| Favorite animated show |
Family Guy, American Dad and, like Ralph, Dragon Ball. |
| Favorite non-animated show |
The Big Bang Theory, Limitless, Criminal Minds & The Flash. |
| Favorite movie |
The Bucket List, Zombie Land & The Matrix. |
| Favorite video game |
The latest Call of Duty, Project Cars, Battlefield & Assassins Creed. |
| Favorite food |
Pancakes, KFC & Marinated Slow Cooked Roast Beef. |
| Sean is the site administrator and creator of the stickfigure submission system as well as a majority of the DBZ stickfigures. He also has a funny accent.
At around age 12 he discovered Pivot, ended up on Droidz.org looking for stickfigures to use in his animations, got fairly good after about 2 years.
He decided to make a website to host his animations on after having been on the forums for a long time. That's what got him into webdesign since the first iteration of his website was a terrible looking flash-based thing that at the time he thought was the best thing out.
After a while he realized how stupid it looked and behaved. So he looked into HTML and CSS, got it looking slightly better but it wasn't until he found WordPress that it started looking decent.
After that he went off the grid for a bit, got his Cert IV in IT and Webdesign, cemented his understanding of the internet protocols.
Lately he's been helping out around the Stick Nodes community and has been managing Animation Alpha. He's also been looking into game development and has begun a project that he hopes to finish one day soon, he can't really reveal anything about it but it's for mobile devices and will be a 2D sidescroller. |
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Hey Ralph! Can you add a support for the .wav sounds?
Probably not, sorry. While it is possible, it would require a lot of work, and I don’t have the time to spare to work on that instead of new updates/other stuff.
What’s the difference between mp3 and .wav?
Wav is just pure sound data, uncompressed. It’s essentially the best quality because there’s no compression whatsoever, as a result, the files are huge.
MP3 is the most popular way of compressing audio. I’m pulling numbers out of the air, but something like a typical music file would be hundreds of MBs in WAV form, but MP3 can compress it down to just 5-10MB and you notice no quality loss whatsoever due to the way it does the compression.
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Ah, 1999. A good year. Why? Idk.
Why 65?
Adventure Time, I approve, though I haven’t watched anything since that “Stakes” mini-series thing a few months ago, need to catch up. I don’t know how that works in France, if you have to wait for the translated dubs or anything.
I used to watch Regular Show too but I kinda lost interest recently. Oh well.
Spinach. Wow…
WHAT?! SPINACHES ARE SO DELICIOUS BRO.
Why 65? I don’t know.
It looks like washed up seaweed. And tastes like it too.
Oh god why does everyone hates spinaches?
Oh wow cuz its green so it looks like vomit and it got a weird lookin’ texture eeeewwwww
I think i’m the only one on Earth who can eat spinaches. Just, wow, I don’t get why you guys hate spinaches so much.
And no, it can’t taste like seaweed, you guys are weird
Veryy weiiiiirddd mhhhhh
I think spinaches are not too bad.
And its healty.
Omg Berke I love you
SOMEONE FINALLY LIKE SPINACHES HAYYYYY
First of all, can everyone please stop saying “spinaches”, it’s just “spinach”.
Secondly you’re all wrong it tastes horrible.
Thirdly…
First, I don’t care, I say what I want 🙁
Secondly, everyone have a different taste, so are you trying to tell me that people who eat spinach are wrong?
Thirdly… uhhhh
That lady on your avatar, next to you, she has a nice arm.
wait wat
You know, I’ve been meaning to ask who that is too. Now I’m more curious. Do tell us.
Put Sriracha on it.
Maybe it’s like, Ralph’s wife.
I WANT to APOLOGIZE about MY act. I am really sorry its just THAT i love SOO much POWER RANGERS AND i became CRAZY AND SOO desperate FOR THESE STICKFIGURES. I am SOO sorry
It’s no problem, I understand.
Party like it’s 1999….
I’m sorry XD
Thanks
Hmmmmm YOU know about angry birds? If yes THEN WHY don’t YOU MAKE THE pack OF THE angry birds? FOR STICK NODES i mean BUT this time no more crazyness
Yeah I play angry birdq since 2010, I also watched the movie last week, it was meh.
But yeah why not? I’ll make the angry birds. (Their first form, not the new one)
Oh ok i ACCEPT everry angry birds form
Oh yeah AND penguins OF Madagascar
AND NINJAGO pack too I REALLY love NINJAGO AND a STAR WARS pack WITH all of my favourite CHARACTERS. Their names are: luke skywalker anakin skywalker Young obi wan kenobi from episode 1 Han solo AND THE clone troopers. So these are ALL OF MY favourite heroes. So put THESE CHARACTERS on the star WARS pack i really NEED THEM FOR MY PIVOT heroes WARS ANIMATION FOR STICK NODES
Oh and by anakin skywalker STICKFIGURE i mean about anakin from STAR WARS THE clone WARS. Sorry If its too much BUT i really NEED THEM FOR MY animation
Holly pepperonis, you’re giving me a lot of work lmao! But okey, even tough I hate Star Wars (please don’t break my nose) I’ll try
I also like Ninjagos but how can you make them in sticknodes? It will more look like a bunch of random segments than ninjagos.
Lol, if you actually make everything he requested I’m going to try spinach just for you.
Don’t trust him, he’s lying to you, he will just get all the things from you and not return what was promised.
Well you don’t have to tell him that.
I’m going to make EVERYTHING he asked me.
Ralph, If I make them all, I want you to record yourself eating spinach.
Just to be sure that you ate it.
Its ok. Everryone likes what THEY like. AND i love YOUR sonic STICKFIGURES keep IT up
Lol thank you.
For some reasons my Sonic stickfigure isn’t showing up in Ralph’s mailbox, the first Sonic stickfigure looks more like the 1991 Sonic with his round belly, while mine is more like the “next gen” one (Sonic adventure, Heroes, etc).
I WISH ITS POSTED ON THE WEBSITE UHR.
Good THAT one dmlan when YOU told ralph to record himself eating a spinach.
calm down jeez
WHY ohhh i get IT YOU mean beacuse i am writing WITH big letters well no THEY are just coming out i don’t write WITH big letters
wtf is wrong with u, he means calm down becuz ur just spamming the damn comments, sorry for my language
Are you serious? How are the capital letters just happening?
“Oh ok i ACCEPT everry angry birds form
Oh yeah AND penguins OF Madagascar
AND NINJAGO pack too I REALLY love NINJAGO AND a STAR WARS pack WITH all of my favourite CHARACTERS. Their names are: luke skywalker anakin skywalker Young obi wan kenobi from episode 1 Han solo AND THE clone troopers. So these are ALL OF MY favourite heroes. So put THESE CHARACTERS on the star WARS pack i really NEED THEM FOR MY PIVOT heroes WARS ANIMATION FOR STICK NODES”
probably 3 out of the 4 things DmLan can’t do or wont do
You need to believe in DmLan.
Gimee ur energy
Like Goku’s Genkidama thingy
Spirit Bomb.
No. Spirit Bomb is Piccolo’s special attack stuff.
Omg 2muchBudokaiTenkaichi4me.
Not sure if you’re trolling or not.
Ah nvm, it’s Chaoz’s attack. Wait no, its Dodonpa.
Disijzbwbsjizioe
I think its Yamcha’s I think.
I DONT KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY CHARACTERS ITS CONFUSING AF
Lol, I was originally just “correcting” you even though Genkidama is technically correct, it’s the Japanese word for what is known as the Spirit Bomb in English translations.
But you do know your DBZ attack names, so I’ll give you credit.
Okay,
Dodonpa, Kyenzan (I don’t know if I spell it correctly), Kamehameha, Genkidama, Kaioken, Makankozapo, Solar flare (it took me ages to understand this in the game, I used to hear “Shonatmar” when I was a kid.
And that’s it, I don’t know mant attacks but that’s enough.
Yeah, depending on what media your watching, the names for these attacks are sometimes the Japanese name or the English name. Good work though if you just remembered all of that. I have to admit I know “dodonpa”, I’ve heard it, but I can’t place who’s attack that is. I feel like…Piccolo?
I don’t know, we use the japanese ones in this video game.
For the anime, though, I don’t know, I should check.
Woah woah woah take a deep breath and calm down
Can You send the power rangers STICKFIGURES in the STICK NODES site please? And please give me a link of them i really wanna see the pictures of the power rangers STICKFIGURES that you made
“I apologize about my act, I was just crazy of power rangers” – Teodorninja 2016
8)))))
I just wana see them ok?
So Ralph, excited about Battlefield 1? I heard it’s gonna be everything COD players wished Infinite Warfare was gonna be.
Not sure if you’re trolling me…
Mhhhh… I think I’m the only one who didn’t played Battlefield/COD on multiplayer. Why? Because I own COD Big Red One and there is nobody to play with since this old as hell.
Then, I got Battlefield 2, that nobody plays, and finally, Battlefield 1942, wich is MUCH older than BF 2 and MORE cool. I’m having so much fun playing this game with my dad, It’s like one of the lastests good Battlefield games before they turn into COD stupid stuff boom boom machine gun.
See?! We’re better in the past, no more 3 years old COD “mlg noscopers”, no more stupid quick knives, there’s just you, playing with bots/friends and shooting each other.
Hey,
There are planes, tanks and jeeps.
Vriuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
How old are you dude?
16 and a half
You are argint like a Chile at this age
I’d rather act like a kid than growing up.
Being an adult sucks.
Lol. Playing video games is hardly a “childish” thing anymore.
Brb, I’ll take some childish games I own. I think they’re in my cellar.
Ah, there:
http://www.noelshack.com/2016-21-1464276499-20160526-172508.jpg
These ps3 gameq are very childish.
Why so many sims games? My sister.
Sure, sure, your sister… Also is Minecraft a childish game? It can be, but it can also be complex.
Y u no believe me Ralph?
OKEY I BOUGHT THE SIMS 3 PLZ DON’T SLAP ME.
Minecraft isn’t that complex, except for redstone but thats it.
Annnd there is Donald Duck and Ice age, the most childish games ever, how did I got them anyway?
And there’s farming simulator, this is not that childish but this is boring, I had an headache the first 10 minutes.
Yeah, because of the sandbox style, it really depends on what you’re doing in Minecraft which determines if it’s just a simple game or some giant project.
Anyway just show me the link of the power rangers STICKFIGURES yiu made please i wanna see them and please submit thrm to STICK NODES site i really need them For my animation. Please i am dont have any craziness in me. And please show me the links of the star WARs STICKFIGURES and of the angry birds STICKFIGURES and of the NINJAGO STICKFIGURES that you made
begging. It sometimes works
Didn’t he submit it already? I don’t think DmLan is working on any others.
I got into Battlefield with Bad Company 2, really fun game and it still seems to be active and one of the favorites of all Battlfield games.
Then I got BF3 and BF4, both really fun, any time I play a game it’s typically only BF4 multiplayer a couple times a week.
It’s really not too COD-like, that’s what many Battlefield fans don’t want to happen. With the announcement of Battlefield 1, it’s looking like a lot of fun, so I’ll be getting that.
So after that long behind conversation, the answer is yes?
What was the question lol.
I’m also gonna make my own About me.
Name: Xanthe Davis
Role: YouTuber (Only uploads Animations)
Location: Kentucky (Originally from England.)
Favourite color: Neon Green
Favourite number: Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, 42.
Birthday: 2004 (11) *Soon 12*
Favorite game: Dark souls 3, Bloodborne, Watch Dogs. Because yes.
Favorite animated show: Family Guy, AoT, DBZ, HunterxHunter
Favorite non-animated show: Impractical Jokers, TruTV Top Funniest, AFV, TruTV World’s Dumbest.
Favorite food: Broccoli, Spinach, CABBAGES YAAAAH!
He was born in England, raised in England, but moved to KY eventually. Trying to kinda get rid of the accent but there are so many southern people, so he gave up. After 1 and a half years he got decent at animation. He still has never had a GF and probably won’t. Ah. That took awhile to write. I gotta take my sleepy time pills! (I have insomnia don’t judge meh. I’m already on 3 different meds..)
I gotta brush meh teeth maow.
Lol, I like reading these things about the Stick Nodes community, maybe I should make some type of “about” page for the users…
Is your name really Xanthe? That’s kind of awesome.
England to Kentucky, hmm, that’s quite the transition. From the region with arguably the most intelligent-sounding English accent to the region with the most unintelligent-sounding accent.
Interesting animated shows, you don’t happen to watch Toonami on Saturday nights do you? I ask because those three animes are/were on every week.
Broccoli and spinach, you’re joking right?
Eh. Well, here’s a secret. I like soft shell tacos too. But I like the sour cream under all the other stuff. 😀
Nice, tacos almost make up for the fact that you like broccoli and spinach. I get the sour cream thing too, I think I prefer that too, on the bottom, even though I usually have it on the top.
Xanthe I love you. Spinach power!!!1!1111!
Also, it would be a good idea to make a “About us for users”.
Power of the spinach!!
YAAH! *Eating spinach*
YEAH INDEED!
*also eat spinach*
Sorry for your tongue.