The best thing about stick figures is that they are straight and simple. Even the least artistically gifted person could draw one and can also do it on the computer.
In this context I wanted to report three really nice programs, fun for those who love creating simple animations of stick figures, without having to learn complex software .
Looking at the figure, maybe someone could be a little bad in seeing such a spartan graphic, but I thought this style is precisely the strength and distinction of this small and simple PC program.
1) Although with stylized graphics, anyone, with the free Pivot program, can create animations of any kind, starting from scratch and drawing as if they were playing.
Nothing complex then, without any three-dimensional effect and without any ambition to create an animated film, Pivot is suitable for pure fun and pastime (nothing to do with the professional 3D Blender drawing program)
The functioning of the program is essentially based on the construction of figures made of points and lines .
A little man then becomes a ball representing the head, one line for the body, 4 other lines for the limbs.
The joints between one line and another are points that look like tacks and are distinguished in red and pink points.
The lines connected to the red dots can move while the pink dots are stationary.
This program must have been inspired by the animation effect that lies at the basis of the cartoons: After drawing the same figure in different positions on a notepad, quickly browse the sheets under your finger and you will see that figure moving.
According to the same concept, the animation is created frame by frame by moving, in small doses, the body and parts of the little man's body.
Whenever you make a change, click the "Next frame" button to create a photograph of that position and, after having created some of them sequentially, you can press play and see the quick reproduction of these photos, one after the other .
Whatever changes have been made and the frames created, you will see the little man move.
To add new figures you can create them from scratch by pressing the "Add Figure" button which opens a very easy to use interface always based on points and lines and rounds.
At the end you can save the animation created in a gif file that can be opened with any image viewer.
2) A program very similar to Pivot is Stykz, equally simple and fun to create men made of lines and circles.
3) TISFAT is a free stick figure animation tool made from image frames, with many more tools and a little more complex.
