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First tutorial, the closest to a manual so far. StickyPy by Joshua Worth. Project kindly hosted. This is possibly the most well known and popular stick figure animation software of its time. The software was made by Peter Bone for his brother who needed something very user friendly and simple to use, that was back in 2004, now it is widely used and available in several different languages, the latest release was V4 in 2016.
| Features | ||
| Import PNG, JPEG, GIF, PSD (Photoshop) | ||
| Animate in Photoshop or GIMP | ||
| Create line drawings on infinite canvas | ||
| Animate with key frames, control points, switches, matrix | ||
| 3D-like interpolation of size | ||
| Path tool | ||
| Pick up and drop items | ||
| Control body poses, switches with keyboard | ||
| Generate walk | ||
| Create your own figures | ||
| Unlimited undo and redo | ||
| GDI+, AntiGrain rendering with OpenGL acceleration | ||
| Deform and effect nodes | ||
| Slide physics for 'line rider' like simulation | ||
| Pivot Stickfigure 2.2.5 integration | ||
| Speech bubbles | ||
| Unlimited cameras and animation length | ||
| Expressions | ||
| Many features for reusing graphics between projects | ||
| Sound with animated triggering, volume and pan | ||
| Record sound util | ||
| Export to 9 popular video formats | ||
| Export to Flash | ||
| Snapshot a frame, export frames as PNG sequence | ||
| Stop motion, capture video of desktop or webcam util | ||
| Put video clips together | ||
Examples
This amazing movie was created by Karine Andresen based on a child book. The characters are designed with Photoshop and animated with Stickman. Norwegian voices.A music video demonstrating skeleton and camera movements.
A short story created by a 9 year old boy!
Weird but funny music video of Maple Leaf Rag.
A blue Stickman figure skating, demonstrating animation on background images.
Scott Dickinson, Coombabah State High School:
'Stickman is great software too, and really suitable for junior high school. It is a mature, stable product that has been exceptionally well designed. It makes a great bridging product to Flash. I particularly admire software with a low learning curve such as Stickman so that students can spend more time being creative and less time learning which buttons to press.'
Ray Koefoed:
'First I want to say that I have tried several different programs that claim to make creating animations easy. Everything from Toon Boom and Anime Studio Pro to 3D programs such as Daz Studio, Moviestorm, Iclone, and so on. I have to say that your program is the simplest and most fun of all of the software I have tried to date. In only 2 days of using the trial version I have become efficient enough to create animations almost as fast as I can imagine what I want the characters to do. I have wanted to create an original cartoon series since about the first season of South Park, and I am pleased that it seems I may have found just the software to do it.'
Chris Boucher:
'Gidday from Australia! Firstly I'd like to congratulate you on Stickman. I have used practically all 2d animation apps available and none of them have been as easy to operate as Stickman. The first time I used it I spent 7 hours dabbling around with little to no frustration, except my eyeballs became fused to my sockets from gazing at the screen for so long and my partner had to drag me away!'
Frank B.
'The user interface is very easy to use for anything.'
Jo?o Peter:
'The movement is VERY good, does not need to use the PC for 2 hours to only move a finger. The distribution of the 'points' of movement is perfect ... summarizing: Excellent!'
Thomas Taylor:
'I currently use Toon Boom Studio 4 but your character rigging and walk cycle are absolutely terrific !'
Stick Fight Animation Maker
Jared Schappert:
'Fun, easy to use ... and a child friendly amazing program!'
Ivan Bogardi:
'Thank you for this marvelous program! It is not only for children an amateurs. It is for experts too, because it is possible to do everything what an expert wish. Or is it too easy for experts, they need more complications?... Now I use Gimp instead of Photoshop, Inkscape instead of Illustrator and now Stickman instead of Flash. Perfect!'
McClan Games:
'This is very user-friendly animation software that is easy to download and can create very nice animations. 4/5'
Tom Erik (Norwegian):
'Elevene her har fått sans for Stickman, og har raskt laget animasjonsfilmer på rekordtid. Nå har vi begynt å studere figurbygging i Elemento, og dette går også veldig fint. Takk for et godt og inspirerende program!'
Amy Stockman:
'My son Frank, who is 11, was very excited to try out your program. He is a very big fan of the stick man animations and games online - he was thrilled to be able to try to make them on his own. Thanks for developing this program that is so easy for someone his age to learn.'
Tony Petri:
'Your program has saved my life in school. i have used it for numerous projects and am planning on using it for my final exam in health class. Your you tube tutorials have been infinitely helpful in making these animations. I have been using Stickman since Version 4.9'
Stick Figure Animation Program Free
Sam Wood:
'Your program is really cool and easy to work with!'
Create Your Own Cartoon Movies
Stykz
A free and fun little animation program, Pivot Stickfigure Animator is exactly that -- an graphical animation utility which creates animated GIF files of stick figures doing whatever you want them to do.
The basic character in this program is a stick figure-type man. You can make it do various things by moving around the red point. Clicking 'Next Frame' adds another frame; when changing the position of the stickman, you will notice a gray shadow depicting him in the previous frame.
In addition to the typical VCR-style controls (play, stop), this application also includes shortcuts to character editing which can be saved and loaded.
Stick Figure Animation Program
This game/image animator is fun and allows you to create funny scenarios starring a stick man. You can also find more en on the Pivot Stickfigure Animator web site.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is software which can create animated GIFs.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator 4.1.10 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from image animation software without restrictions. Pivot Stickfigure Animator 4.1.10 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
Filed under:- Pivot Stickfigure Animator Download
- Freeware Image Animation Software
- Major release: Pivot Stickfigure Animator 4.1
- Animation Creation Software