| 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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April fools are over, I think you can turn everyone’s gravatars back to the normal rotation.
Like seriously.
Upside down purple x groot.
Are they still rotated for anyone?
I changed it back hours ago and it’s normal for me across all browsers/devices.
Cached pages only stay cached for 5 minutes too, so if anything ya’ll need to refresh your pages/clear local cache.
Nvm I just forgot to refresh the page. My bad lol.
You’re fired.
🙁
Hey Ralph, when do u think the new update of sticknodes will come? I’m to hyped to wait xD
I’d say in April, best guess I can say right now. Will know more soon™.
Oh cool. Hype 😀
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Weird.
BUT SO COOL
Can’t Wait! For The Update!
same
What about a color pallete preset?
…beep beep I’m a sheep?
Beep beep I’m a sheep
So..Epic :O
I NEED STICK NODES 2.0.0
Hey Ralph, did you get the Pearl stickfigure tho??
Too*
I did, March 31st, it will be up soon.
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???
Frame duration? Sound duration? Transparency?
How do you even get transparency from that!?
Also the first one >_>
WHERE’S MY TRANSPARENCY?!
WHERE’S MY TRANSPARENCY?!
WHERE’S MY TRANSPARENCY?!
I feel like I’m being very open and transparent about what I’m working on in 2.0.0?
Because VCAM ROTATION AND TRANSPARENCY?
I said transparency as a joke
What the green arrow pointing to the left stands for? Rewind?
And the timer sounds like a frame duration. Good for slowmotion. Won’t work for the non tween animations though, because non tweeners are way too cool for that.
(:
True, I was thinking more for pausing text on the screen for say 2 seconds vs making 30 frames of nothing changing.
Green arrow? ARE YOU NEW HERE THOSE HAVE BEEN THERE FOREVER.
No but seriously the blue arrow is tweening, blue with X is no tweening, green speaker is a sound on that frame, green speaker with X means that frame silences any currently-playing sound.
And the new addition is the timer symbol, which means the frame is paused for a user-set amount of seconds.
GREEN ARROW, not blue. I know the blue one is tweening. And it’s for lazies that wants to make quick and easy animations. 🙂
But yeah sorry, I thought the speaker was a green arrkw cuz I didn’t even tried to zoom in so I thought it was a new feature.
The pausing thing is cool for people that makes a lot of text because most of the time it takes half of their project. Now all they need is a fading text to make them appear and disappear with style.
STOP COMING UP WITH AMMO FOR PEOPLE TO USE AGAINST ME.
Wow Stick Nodes is Getting So Better !,
*thumbs up emoji*
?
Days random thing:
It’s not done yet, but it still functions at it’s core and you are able to post your animations (gifs only for now). I’m in the process of making it look a whole lot better.
Right now the front page shows most recent uploads, but will eventually be sorted by most popular and have a secondary page for most recent.
What is this SPAM doing on my website?
this is our town, scrub
I made an accounr for animation alpha but I’m never going there lmao.
-.. .- -.– … / .-. .- -. -.. — — / – …. .. -. –
I got a new legendary in hearthstone
I might get PS4 Today or tomorrow
Sorry Dmlan
Betrayal
You better buy one of these if you want me to pardon you
https://www.google.fr/search?q=sonic+heroes+ps4+sticker&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY8YDz0pHTAhXpL8AKHe16AokQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=560
I laughed.
Yee
Where have you even been!?
İ dont know.
Getting Uncharted 4 Slim.
Buying it online though
I’ve never played Uncharted.
Or a PS4.
Or 3.
I have a PS4
İ have PC
I have ps2
Berke has GTX 3440 Titan confirmed.
İ have gt 420