Stickman Animator

Stickman Animator is a stickman animation tool. It allows for quick import and creation of animated images, with customizable frame rates for smoother animations. It features a simple camera with panning, zooming, and rotation capabilities. Various shapes and colors can be added to any stickman model. A text box allows adding text and voice to the animation. Built-in sound effects enhance the animation's impact. It supports over 3000 stickmen and can export to GIF format. Keyframes can be added to the timeline using keywords. It's user-friendly with a guided mode.

Features

Import and animate images as well!

Automatic customizeable frame-tweening, make your animations smoother!

A simple camera to pan/zoom/rotate around the scene, similar to the "v-cam" in Flash.

Movieclips allow you to create and reuse/loop animation objects within your projects.

A variety of shapes, color/scale on a per-segment basis, gradients - create any "stickfigure" you can imagine!

Textfields allow for easy text and speech in your animations.

Add all kinds of sounds effects to make your animations epic.

Apply different filters to your stickfigures - transparency, blur, glow, and more.

Join stickfigures together to easily simulate holding/wearing objects.

A large community full of all kinds of interesting people and other animators.

Over 30,000+ stickfigures (and counting) to download from the website.

Export to GIF (or MP4 for Pro) to share your animation online.

Compatibility with pre-3.0 Pivot stickfigure files.

Save/open/share your projects, stickfigures, and movieclips.

And all the other typical animation stuff - undo/redo, onion-skin, background images, and more!

Please note, sounds, filters, and MP4-export are Pro-only features

How to Use

Open  Stickman Animator and create a new project, then set your canvas size and frame rate.

Add a stickfigure from the community library or create one with shapes and color gradients.

Block key poses on the timeline, insert frames, and enable tweening to smooth movement between poses.

Adjust the camera to pan, zoom, or rotate for each shot, then place images or join figures to add props.

Preview the sequence, refine timing, and export to GIF or MP4 if you use Pro, then share your animation.

Advantages and disadvantages

Pros

Offers an easy way for you to design and animate your own characters

Includes a Quick Menu that makes it easier to use

Available as a free app and Pro (paid) app

Many different custom features are available for users

Has an export feature for sharing your creations

Cons

Limits you to just 40 saves

Has a short lag time

User comments

Great animation app! The ads, from my experience, only happen when you open the app, then never again, the design and layout is great, the community is creative, and it's overall a really good app! I would definitely recommend! I'm an amateur animator, and this helped me a TON! If I could give this more stars, I would! The pro version is also quite cheap! only $3.99 for so much features! I personally prefer the pro one, however this one is still great!

I absolutely love this animating app!!! it's help learn and create my own animation, when I was a beginner I was overwhelmed by the confusing buttons and option, but when I'm getting hang of it, it was actually helping me developed lots of skill and thank you Ralph!! keep up the great work!!!

Its an amazing app overall. Even if your not good at animation, it simplifies it and it still looks awesome, and you instead could use the easy but very powerful stick creator to make figs and share/let others see/download your figs! Overall, just great. Five stars :)

Summarize

Harness the power of simplicity with Stickman Animator, an intuitive app designed to breathe life into stick figure animations effortlessly. Ideal for enthusiasts and creative minds, this application stands out by enabling rapid animation—slide a stick figure in your desired direction and watch it animate without the need for frame-by-frame manipulation.