JB2A - Jules&Ben's Animated Assets

Dear patrons! Welcome to the newcomers and the returning members, and thank you all for the support, it really means so much to us. 💖 Also, thanks for your suggestions on Discord. It inspired us to make the ball bearings, the circular web animation and the return animations for both throwing axes T

Dear patrons! Thank you very much for the continued support!💖 The domain is fully moved and operational, the landing page jb2a.com is back and everything seems to be back to normal. Please let us know if you find a broken link, a typo or anything unexpected and we'll do our best to fix it. This mon

Dear patrons! Thank you all for the support!💖 In a few days, we'll be moving our .com domain, before the renewal of the hosting service. Between the heat wave and the anxiety, let's just say it will be a relief once it's done! 😰 It can take up to 7 days, but we're hoping it won't take more than 2.

Dear patrons! As always, we owe you a great debt of gratitude, thank you so much for the support ! 💖 Thanks to all the people who took part in the giveaway last month and congrats if you received your monthly subscription to Fantasy Calendar! We'll probably organise another giveaway next month. 👀

Dear patrons! Thank you all for the support, it means so much to us ! 💖 We're finally getting somewhere on our new naming convention. 😌 Once we're happy with it, and we have solved the remaining friction points and stumbling blocks, it should make splitting our module into smaller chunks a whole l

Dear patrons! We've decided to skip the release this month. We have started a few different projects for JB2A and inevitably, the time for our asset creation has been shortened. We want to spend a bit more time on these assets and on these projects. So, we won't charge you for this month, even thoug

Dear patrons! Whether you're new, returning or you've been here for some time, it bears repeating that we are truly grateful for the support. Thank you so much 💖 By the way, if you're new, please make sure you take some time reading through our wiki. The Getting Started section has all you need to

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 co

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

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 gratifyi

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 l

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 ge

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 f

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 mig

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-wee

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 hav

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 t

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

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 a

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 inter

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

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 modifications. W

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 gat

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 start

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? Ember is a massive open-world, exploration and adventure game in

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

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

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

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

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 tho

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

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

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 ni

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

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

Dear patrons! Happy Halloween! May your roleplaying sessions be scary and fun. 👻 Thank you all for contributing to the success of our project, we literally could not have done it without you ❤️ Getting back into learning Unreal Engine is challenging at times, but very fun and exciting. There is sti

Dear patrons! The quest to tame Unreal Engine has begun... once more. This month, we indulged in buying a couple of asset packs to draw inspiration from, change some textures, timings...etc More importantly, the goal was to focus more on experimenting with the rendering side of things, which has bee

Dear patrons! Hello 👋 We're back with some goodies for you! Ben is ok and got back to work in time to secure this release. Thanks for all your messages of support, it was very moving ❤️ Know that we do not take any of you for granted and very much wish to keep up to your expectations as much as we

Dear patrons! A recent emergency in Ben's family has understandably impacted his work. We find ourselves with too few assets to justify an update to our pack, so, we decided to postpone this month's release. We hope you all understand and that it won't be too much of a disappointment. All the best ❤

Dear patrons! The air is hard to breathe. The humidity is almost palpable. You just cleverly dodged a bunch of poison darts that were shooting out of the walls. Or have you? Your vision is blurred. No time to rest however. The ground is trembling with a low rumble... A giant boulder is rolling towar

Dear patrons! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For your generosity, for your encouragements, for giving us a purpose and a place in the VTTRPG community, thank you. Now let's play some... let's...uh, roll some dice! Some technical difficulties with the assets we said we would be releasing t

Dear patrons! A huge thanks to our patrons for the support, we appreciate it enourmously. 😊 This month, We've been working through quite a few patron requests that were starting to pile up. And we still have a long way to go! We haven't forgotten the "thrown shield" animation, nor the "rain of arro

"Zuala" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.6 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! Wow, thank you all for the amazing support. Never did we anticipate that 5000 people would one day be engaging with our animations and paying us to keep creating them! 🤯 We receive messages thankin

"Yeza" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.5 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! Before jumping into presenting the new assets in this release, let us welcome all of you, new patrons! Thank you so much for joining our project, we hope you enjoy our animations. And of course, a hu

"Xandis" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.4 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! During a DnD week-end, playing around the table with friends who came to visit us from the UK, we heard about the OGL debacle. The irony wasn't lost on us! 😅 I won't go into details here about wha

"Widogast" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.3 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! Happy holidays to you, we hope you had a lovely Christmas (for those who celebrate it, of course) and that New Year's Eve will be a fun and memorable one for you! 🎉 Whether you are a new patron

"Vecna" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.2 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! Hi everyone! We're proud to announce our JB2A two-year anniversary! What a ride this has been! 🎢 Reminiscing on how this project started, this was not always a very straight road but these twists a

"Uriel" is just a way for us to track our release! Module version v0.5.1 for FoundryVTT Dear patrons! Hello everyone and thank you so much for your patronage. ❤️ We moved into our new place, everything went smoothly, except internet that decided to bail on us for the release... Just this one release