How to Create Stick Figure Animations
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I am definitely not an artist. I have trouble even drawing a simple stick figure! Thank goodness there’s software out there that will help me. It’s a lot of fun, too! Stykz is cross-platform, and won’t cost you anything.
Stykz is frame-based, letting you to work on individual frames of your animation. Figures can be rotated, scaled, flipped, duplicated, colorized, and relayered. Figures can be created and edited directly in place; no separate “editor” window is required. Stykz’s PolyFill tool lets you fill shapes with just a few clicks! You can individually adjust the line segments in a figure, setting their length, width, color, and angle.
As you can see, it’s not just some boring old software that lets you make simple designs. Oh no! Stykz is full-featured, allowing you to create very complex little stick men and women!
Windows and Mac versions can be downloaded now, but sadly, the Linux version is still in beta form, so it’s not available just yet. The Linux public beta is coming soon – so stay tuned! The program is awesome, and a lot of fun!
- FLIP BOOKS
- Animation 1: Learn to Animate Cartoons Step by Step (Cartooning, Book 1)
- How to Animate Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants
- Animate Form
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One Comment
Craig Mathhews
July 15th, 2009
at 4:20am
Stykz is a bit like Pivot Stickfigure Animator (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html) But Pivot Stickfigure Animator is not cross-platforms ;)