Josiah Brooks

JAZZA or Josiah Brooks is a professional animator. He was born on in April 20, 1989. He lives in Australia.

In 2003, he began animating, and after discovering the website via a request from the Star Syndicate to vote on their work, has since become one of the most notable authors on Newgrounds. His work, consisting of dozens of Flash submissions on Newgrounds, has covered a wide variety of genres, including drama, such as The Composer, fantasy action, such as the Paladin series, comedy, such as the Larry series, and several games, including Kill Kar and several games based on his various series. He also has 40 audio submissions, most of which are rated between 3/5 and 4/5.

One of his art submissions won a minor award.

Youtube
Brooks maintains 3 YouTube channels.

His main channel is Jazza Studios. He submits all his work here.

Brooks' music channel is Josiah Brooks Music.

His tutorial channel where he tutors his viewers on how to animate in Adobe Flash, is Draw with Jazza!

Ortus
Brooks launched a Kickstarter campaign on November 15, 2011 to crowd-fund a game called Ortus. His campaign goal of $20,000 was successfully reached, and the project was closed on December 24, 2011. There have been delays in completing the project, however Brooks made an update on Kickstarter on September 9, 2013, explaining that the project is back on track and the game's engine is in final phases of development.