JB2A

JB2A - v0.8.8 Release

JB2A - v0.8.7 Release

Dear patrons!

We hope the start of the year is going as well as can be for you. It's a busy time for us, as we are working silmutaneously on a few different projects.
One of them is restructuring our module into more managebale chunks. We think we're getting there for a solid and foolproof naming convention, if such a thing exists 😁
We asked for some help for creating and hosting our currently down jb2a.com website, whi...

JB2A - v0.8.6 Release

Dear patrons!

We hope you're having a wonderful time for the end of the year festivities and wish you all the best for the year to come. 🎉
A few cone animations for this release, which we had been putting off for far too long! Two different shapes, as the cones for D&D5e and PF2e are different, so hopefully it will be useful for everyone.
The music puzzle&nb...

JB2A - v0.8.5 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so much, we're very grateful for the continued support! ❤️
Whilst chipping away at larger and more time-consuming projects, we're also trying to make sure we offer enough variations of our animations.
We can't wait to see what you all come up with, it's always really gratifying to watch how our assets are combined to create some epic cinematic scenes!
Enjoy! 😊

- Contents of the release -

New Smoke Templates

Small and Large,...

JB2A - v0.8.4 Release

Dear patrons!

Happy halloween everyone! 👻
Our Sci-Fi friends were feeling left out and we heard you, here are a few animations for you. It was nicely refreshing to work on these, we hope they serve you well.
We'll try to sprinkle some every now and then if you enjoy this kind of style.
As we said last month, we looked into updating our Unreal project to the latest version. However, a backup was necessary and one thing leading to the next, parkouring above, around and in so...

JB2A - v0.8.3 Release

Dear patrons!

Huge thanks to all of you for the support. We love seeing people having fun combining our animations, making intros for bosses and reading about how excited the players are to see them during their session! ❤️
Next month, we'll attempt to transition to Unreal Engine 5.7 to see if we get more stability and some quality of life tools for rendering more efficiently. Mostly to hopefully have less crashes and remove some very repetitive tasks from our workflow.
In t...

JB2A - v0.8.2 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all for the continued support and words of encouragement. It really means a lot ❤️

This release has been a lot of fun, even though we had to fight with Unreal crashing or suddenly behaving unexpectedly 😑, but we're happy about our setup for a volley of projectiles!
Quite a few type of animations we can make with this one by tweaking some parameters and replacing the projectile mesh. We'll definitely expand upon it soon™
We originally thoug...

JB2A - July Update

Dear patrons!

After much deliberation, we have decided not to publish a release this month.
It means that you will not be charged for july. We just thought we'd let you know and reassure you that we're back at work and eager.
There are so many VFX and side-projects that we'd like to re-visit, we might even publish two releases next month, depending on how far along we get!
Our holiday in Wales was amazing by the way, even though we caught a cold that made us ...

JB2A - v0.8.1 Release

Dear patrons!

Your support and kind words mean the world to us. Thank you all so much ❤️
We had wanted to make a "light refraction" type of effect for a while now and couldn't get it right until now. We think it looks amazing and we hope you do too! 😊
Next month, we will take our first real two-weeks vacation with friends in over three years! It has been planned for a while and we're really excited to play lots of roleplaying games amongst our closest friends, start some ba...

JB2A - v0.8.0 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all so much for the continued support! ❤️
Our free module made the top 20 most installed modules of Foundry VTT in 2025 according to the recent "Year in Review" article!
We're endlessly blown away by this community's engagement and generosity and couldn't be more proud of having you as patrons 😊

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JB2A - v0.7.9 Release

Dear patrons!

We're so grateful for your support, thank you so much. 😊
We hope most days are "smiley days" for you 😉
The days are getting longer in our part of the world and the sun is shining bright 🌞 and yet, it's at our computer that we happily spend the longer part of our time 🤣
We do find time to spend outside though, with our family and friends and we make the most of it thanks to you having our back❤️

- New Wiki Entries -

We have added a 2025-04-30 20:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post

JB2A - v0.7.8 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so much for your support, it means everything to us. So many of you have sent words of encouragement and stories from around your table, we're so very proud and humbled to know we have some impact in your games! 😊
This release, we have some new aura-type animations and there are so many variations possible!
We hope you'll like them!
Five of these variations caught our eye from our experimentations with different textures but we're planning on adding s...

JB2A - v0.7.7 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all so much for the support! ❤️
We're quite happy about the new blueprint we made in Unreal for Niagara particle systems to follow splines.
So we've finally made our first "burrowing creature" animation as a ranged asset to go with the "burrow-out" animation we made a while ago.
Looking forward to finishing this elusive melee setup in Unreal. In the meantime, we dug up the Blender project to add some new melee animations.
There is now a Frying Pan...

JB2A - v0.7.6 Release

Dear patrons!

A heartfelt thanks to all of you for your continuing support!
We've been wanting to make this radar animation for some time and we're happy with the result! There are quite a few ways to combine the assets to make it interesting and with a bit of code, it could make for very cool interactive ideas!
We've considered adding a cone varation and the large version (30ft) is almost ready if that's something you'd be interested in?
We're still trying and struggling to ma...

JB2A - v0.7.5 Release

Dear patrons!

Happy new year! 🎉
We've added a troubleshooting section to our wiki that we can build upon over time. Let us know what you think. Any suggestion or feedback is welcome. We have started and will continue to prune our website from old outdated or redudant sections, and the same will be applied to our Discord server.

Colour themes have been on the forefront of our mind for a ve...

JB2A - v0.7.4 Release

Dear patrons!

Good news, we finally have a prototype for our wiki!😊

We went down a few rabbit holes to find a template flexible enough and not too complicated for two beginners in web development like ourselves. The one we selected in the end was the Astro/Starlight theme with some modificati...

JB2A - v0.7.3 Release

Dear patrons!

Spooky season is here once more! We hope you're having fun getting scared👻
Thank you all for your continued support, we're endlessly amazed by how much people engage with our animations, the praise and encouragement we receive daily and the overall kind and heartwarming commnunity gathered around what we love to create. ❤️
Whilst working and experimenting with materials for trails, we really enjoyed the way some of them came out and also realized that generic ...

Small Blunder

Hum, apologies if you received a mail with the Master Post information, this was a mistake.
We have since updated the post for the release, it should be all fixed on Patreon.
Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113094105

That's all, thank you! :)

JB2A - v0.7.2 Release

Dear patrons!

As always, we're so grateful for your ongoing support and patronage. ❤️
What has started almost four years ago as a "let's cross our fingers, hopefully some people will like what we do" project has now become our main focus and our daily routine! 😆
Thank you!

News

This month, we started by continuing our work on the melee attacks. The import of the keyframed animations from Blender into Unreal was not easy but we're happy with the r...

FoundryVTT - Ember Kickstarter Promotional Post

Hello everyone!
We're excited to promote the Ember kickstarter project for the Foundry VTT team!
They've been hard at work on this project for a couple of years and oh boy, do they have a lot to show for it!
What is Ember, you may ask?...

JB2A - v0.7.1 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all for the patronage and we hope you had a pleasant summer holiday!
We actually took a whole week of holidays ourselves this month, to enjoy the company of a friend and his family coming to visit. First real holiday we've had in almost three years! It was awesome! 😎
Feeling refreshed and more motivated than ever, we consolidated our workflow on the beam we created last month and jumped on the opportunity to create a few more variations.
Our priority ...

JB2A - v0.7.0 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so all so much for the support! ❤️
It means everything to us. We couldn't do any of it without your support and we truly couldn't dream of a better community.
Summer is definitely upon us now, we hope you're having a great time with family and friends.
Speaking of, we do have some family and friends coming to visit at the minute and during next month, so we may be less available than usual. 😎
We'll try to keep an eye on Discord and Patreon and ...

JB2A - v0.6.9 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so much for the continued support! ❤️
We've received so many encouraging comments about our animations, we feel incredibly lucky to be allowed to continue making some cool visual effects for you. 😊
Also, thank you for your patience and understanding, I know some of you were frustrated with the manifest link not working. It should be good now, more info below.

News

There was an issue with FoundryVTT V12 and manifest links for large modul...

JB2A - v0.6.8 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all so much for the support! It genuinely means a lot.❤️
It's a priviledge to realize how much impact we have on the VTT scene.
Slight issue for the "Only New Stuff" zips... Probably because of how many files there are in it.
That's because we've converted more than 300 webms from VP9 to VP8 on top of the new assets for this release. Our Command line to create a differential between two Github commits did not like that apparently... 😅
So we'll ...

Announcement

Dear patrons!

We grossly underestimated the amount of work that was required to adapt our melee animations from Blender to Unreal Engine. 😅
And despite spending many days on it, we just don't have enough assets this month to really "justify" a paid release like the ones we usually deliver.
Even though the "Per Creation" system on Patreon would allow us to do so, we decided it was best not to publish anything rather than perhaps making you feel "cheated" or "short-changed" with ...

JB2A - v0.6.7 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all for the support! We're very grateful for you allowing us to continue making these cool animations. ❤️
If you have ideas or references, please share them with us here or on our Discord. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how you think some animations "should" look like, at least in your mind's eye.
For example, there are so many ways to interpret the "metal aura" or "wood aura" for the PF2e Kineticist and even though many forums are talking about the...

JB2A - v0.6.6 Release

Dear patrons!

The positive comments and growing numbers of people supporting what we do on our Patreon is heart-warming and humbling.
We thank you all so much and hope you'll like what we have in store for you.❤️
The new chapter of our book "Jules and Ben's struggle with Unreal Engine" is a long one!🤪
To be brief and not bore you with too many technical details, we tackled our ranged animation blueprints and the task was... bigger than expected to say the least. 😵 2024-02-29 23:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post

JB2A - v0.6.5 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you so much for the continued support
It bears repeating: you make all this possible and we're ever so grateful! ❤️
This month, we busied ourselves in Unreal Engine with figuring out why the anti-aliasing was messing with our timings and why there was a discrepency between the niagara preview and what we could see in the level.
We tweaked the settings for the anti-aliasing, removed the motion blur when not necessary, which makes for a sharper image and...

JB2A - v0.6.4 Release

Dear patrons!

Happy new year! 🎉✨🎇
We hope you're spending quality time, surrounded with friends and family for the end of the year celebrations.
Thank you so much for the support and best wishes for the year ahead from both of us! ❤️

Our setup on Unreal is getting better every day. We improved our experimenting and rendering phases drastically and we're happy about it!
Still a few things to figure out of course but it does speed up the whole process, which i...

JB2A - v0.6.3 Release

Dear patrons!

Thank you all so very much for the continued support.
Three years can seem like a long time and yet, times flies by! Our to-do list has become an ever-growing monster.
Little did we know or suspect how much impact we would have on the FoundryVTT community when we first started!
We have almost reached 6000 patrons and almost 10000 people joined our Discord server... what? 😱
Every now and then, like everyone else, we get anxious and even overwhelmed by what ...