Stick Figure Animations

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2009-09-30T23:49:45Z

Stick Figure Death Theatre

1996

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Stick Figure Animations <h2>About</h2> <p><strong>Stick Figure Animations</strong> are a widespread artistic style on the Internet, popular for their simplicity and ease of animation. They started off as simple animated GIFs and went on to become often complex full-length videos.</p> <h2>Pre-internets History</h2> <p>The stickman dates back to the earliest prehistoric human art, where it’s used as basic symbol for a human being. Today, the simplicity of creating and animating a simple stickman has inspired the creation of thousands of stick figure animations on the internet, and been a critical component of popular viral hits like “Stick Figure Death Theatre” and the web-comic <a href="http://xkcd.org">xkcd</a></p> <h2>Stick Figure Animations</h2> <p>One of the first stick figure animations to appear on the web was from <a href="http://www.webreference.com/javascript/960527/animation.html">JavaScript Tip of the Week</a>, a site that, like it says, gives tips weekly concerning the object-oriented scripting language, JavaScript. It was presented on May 1996 to teach people about animation speed. Here’s the little guy used for the animation:</p> <div align="center"> <p><img src="http://www.webreference.com/javascript/960527/wave1.gif" alt="" /></p> </div> <p>That same year, Matt Calvert launched Stick Figure Death Theater on his website calvert.com.</p> <ul> <li><a href=http://web.archive.org/web/19961227111953/http://www.calvert.com/>Calvert.com Archived 1996</a></li> </ul> <p>Two years later, on July 1998, a site called <a href="http://bennyhills.fortunecity.com/southpark/346/stickmen.html">Stickmen Deaths Page</a> appeared on the net. All of its animations were created with <a href="http://www.rainbowpcm.com/gif_construction_set.html"><span class="caps">GIF</span> Construction Set</a> which is considered “the mother of all applications for creating all sorts of things with <span class="caps">GIF</span> files.” Most (if not all) of the site’s videos were made by the administrator, a person who calls himself Ash (in reference to the Pokémon series main character) and his friend, a person who calls himself Pikachu-Z:</p> <blockquote> <p>Stickmen Deaths Page was Created By Ash and Pikachu-Z is a friend who is working with me on the site. Oh yeah! DON’T <span class="caps">STEAL</span> MY <span class="caps">ANIMATIONS</span> (or Pikachu-Z’s)!!! <span class="caps">ASK</span> ME IF <span class="caps">YOU</span> <span class="caps">WANNA</span> <span class="caps">PUT</span> <span class="caps">THEM</span> ON <span class="caps">YOUR</span> <span class="caps">SITE</span>! <span class="caps">AND</span> DON’T <span class="caps">STEAL</span> <span class="caps">ANY</span> OF <span class="caps">THE</span> <span class="caps">FAN</span> <span class="caps">MOVIES</span>!!!!</p> </blockquote> <p>The site was discontinued and relocated to <a href="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/">Angelfire.com</a> and was renamed <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/on/ashsticks/">Sdp</a> on December 2000.</p> <p>On January 2001, <a href="http://www.sfdt.com/">Stick Figure Death Theatre</a> was moved to sfdt.com. The site advertises itself as “the largest collection of stick figure flash movies on the internet”.</p> <p>On February 2003, <a href="http://www.stickpage.com/">StickPage.com</a> was created. It is a site that presents the “best online stick figure movies and stick games, with flash games, movies, all free Xiao Xiao style” (in reference to the popular series).</p> <p>Most stick figure animations nowadays are made by using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash">Adobe Flash</a>. The popularity of stick figure animations had established the creation of several flash tools such as Cutout Pro Stickman, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_Stickfigure_Animator">Pivot Stickfigure Animator</a>, <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISFAT>This Is Stick Figure Animation Theatre (<span class="caps">TISFAT</span>)</a>, and Stykz.</p> <h3>Documented Stick Figure Memes</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-fail-guy"><span class="caps">EFG</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stfu-when-im-talking"><span class="caps">STFU</span> When I’m Talking / Cereal Guy</a></li> </ul> <h3>Other stick figure sites</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.stickdeath.com/archives.htm">Stick Death</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickfigureninja.com/">Stick Figure Ninja</a> (<span class="caps">NOTE</span>: The videos are only made by one man)</li> </ul> <h2>Famous Stick Figure Animations</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html">Xiao Xiao</a></li> </ul> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hw4wzwYeZ0Y&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hw4wzwYeZ0Y&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/joezombie.html">Joe Zombie</a></li> </ul> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jtxVne2gEaU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jtxVne2gEaU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/castle">Castle</a></li> </ul> <p><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K8iCKj3gNWE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K8iCKj3gNWE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li>Metallic Knights</li> </ul> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PDYPXhPt0so&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PDYPXhPt0so&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/killingspree.shtml">Killing Spree</a></li> </ul> <p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1LDm-vOEE8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1LDm-vOEE8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <h3>Examples from Stick Page</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/animatorvsanimation.shtml">Animator vs. Animation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/animatorvsanimation2.shtml">Animator vs. Animation 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/breakingthebank.shtml">Breaking the Bank</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/flairseries.shtml">Flair Series</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/anicedaytodieseries.shtml">A Nice Day to Die Series</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/operationseries.shtml">Operation Series</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/pirateslife.shtml">A Pirate’s Life</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/shock1.shtml">Shock</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/shock2.shtml">Shock 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stickpage.com/stickdudekillingarenaseries.shtml">Stick Dude Killing Arena Series</a></li> </ul>

2009-11-19T00:34:29Z

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