| 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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Days random question.
When you visit sub-category pages like https://sticknodes.com/stickfigures/weapons/, the list is ordered from most-popular to least. As a result, the ordering doesn’t change much when new stickfigures are added.
Would you prefer it this way, or instead to be ordered from newest to oldest (upload date)?
Whereas the Most Popular page would be the only list that is ordered by popularity (downloads).
What about adding an option for that you lazy a-
İ didnt said that…
Also, i prefer newest to oldest.
I agree
Why i dont see my comment >:(
If you refresh the page after commenting, you still don’t see your comment?
Well it depends. Newest to oldest may be useful to highlight the most recent stickfigure so they get noticed. Actually, you should add a filter, such as “Newest to oldest” and “most popular” on each stickfigure category. But maybe it will affect the website’s performance, idk.
Yeah, the switching thing would be useful. I’m limited in what the plugin I use can do though. Best I’d be able to do is create two different pages for each category and link them to each other if you select sort by recent/popularity.
Ralph, what’s going on? An entire page of stickfigures was removed! I only can see the figures through the comments page.
All the pages are there, I just checked while logged out, what do you mean exactly? Whatever you saw may have been a temporary thing.
Days random things.
When I realize my favorite game of all time (Sonic Heroes, DUH) has a huge french mispelling.
“Un mode multijoueur pour affrontez vos amis”
“Affrontez”
It basically means “a multiplayer mode to they fight your friends”.
How did they got away with it
It’s on the damn box of the game
Uhh…
Magic?
Magic… yes, magic…
Or maybe because it’s Sonic Heroes, this game can do whatever he wants.
Because, and I say this with a lot of love – nobody likes French.
Boom I said it. It’s out there.
Im am French ???? ok no…
At least Nobody (ARIES, AHEM) does like french.
Ok sorry.
But still, the game was translated by Sega’s french team. Seriously guys? I know our language is complicated but this is just unacceptable.
Lol.
League
Of
Legends.
https://youtu.be/JoHRzfKrdtk
WTF
China.
I agree with Berke.
Ralph Developer
Can you improve the app so we can add or install sprite like naruto sprite please
If u have done that is there a turitoral about it
Hey. Sorry, no sprites will be coming to Stick Nodes. I want to keep the app strictly stickfigures for simplicity’s sake.
Hey guys i got my favorite car yesterday!
The 2014 Dixon Ticonderoga!
U old enough to drive and own a car?
Yes.
http://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/well+obviously+you+missed+the+joke+_2a9c138174ad078ccc8613c51487fcc1.jpg
It’s a pencil.
*Happy Jeopardy Music*
CORRECT
HOW CAN I GUESS IM NOT AMERICAN
You’re from Swahili right?
Is this even a country
Days random things.
When you play Mario Kart 7 online and you randomly meet Jackfly (Penguino) and he gets the “7” item RIIIGHT when I’m first and I’m about to finish the track.
http://i.imgur.com/6AjlDeU.jpg
Mario kart 7? Nou 🙂 “7” item? Never with my friend 🙂 try to make you loose every race? Ja! I would never do that!
JackFly humiliated you.
You can look it up.
B*tch
I’ll get my revenge on Smash.
I’m really unlucky when I’m playing Mario kart.
It’s Ralph’s birthday today.
Everyone in America currently should go punch him for me.
Yes exactly like that. Thanks!
http://1pun.ch/handjob.gif
Too real.
https://youtu.be/t2Lx9PbDvkw
I can’t stop watching.
Lmfao, Alex that was goddamn amazing.
i dont get it
Don’t worry, it was just a complex and detailed joke executed perfectly in such a way that simple minds like yours cannot possibly comprehend the magnificence.
Blub. I’m very neutral at this war thingy.
I don’t know what side should I choose.
You guys are like, very nice.
We have you fooled.
What.
Days random thing.
Does anyone else have a class where you use Stick Nodes and if not, why not?
İ still cant see pictures.
You should fix that.
I removed it from Imgur now.
Also hi.
Now i see.
Much better.
Lol. We once used sticknodes in class because teachers wanted to show us how to animate.
Everyone was like “Hahhdvsndjdsj how does that works?!??”,,373727″
Except me.
How many of them used tweening if they even saw it
All of them right?
From what I see, many “casuals” don’t know about/use tweening.
Mario kart 7!!!
I assume you’re the one that brought it to your teacher’s attention in the first place?
Also why didn’t you take charge and lead everyone into glorious animation lessons?
Well the teacher kept watching me animate which was kinda disturbing.
And there were my friends next to me they were like “Y U ANIM SO SMOOTH” (I wasn’t using tweening) so I showed them tweening, they were even more confused.
But, yes, basically everyone used tweening. The best animation appart from mine was the default stickfigure walking (really badly, im sorry to whoever made this lol) and he found a random sword on the ground,so he cut an apple with it. WAT.
And then there was my animation, 2 blockheads fighting each other.
My teacher was amazed he wanted me to tell “my secret” to everyone.
I just said that I used Pivot a lot back in the day and that I’ve been using sticknodes for 2 years.
The teacher gave me a 10/10 lol.
Also, I didn’t lead everyone to “glorious” animations because.. you see.. they’ve never used any animation program of their life, SO IT WAS A BIT HARD TO HELP EVERYONE AT THE SAME TIME.
Now I think I should leave right away because I think they know the sticknodes website exists now. And they’re going to kill me if they see this.
Boy don’t you like it when I write extremely long stuff?
So this is something that happened in the past, and you decided to never tell me this awesome news?
Haha, that day, he talked about it all evening, it was so glorious that he might have forgotten real quick.
No excuses, he will be severely reprimanded.
please don’t hurt me I got kfc chicken nuggets
KFC is awesome.
Truu
I wanted it to use it in a group project.
the group thought it was too had…
So we didn’t do it
SUCH TINY MINDS.
NoBody animates in Turkey. (İ know, he is awesome.)
To be honest we never used it in school.
Also nobody said something about animation at school ever.(Really)
Berke.
Your English.