stick figure animation

is there a good freeware program out there where i can make stick figure animations like at xiaoxiao movies and stuff like that. Hopefully something that is pretty easy to figure out...

 

MS Paint. It rocks.

I've even seen lightsaber tutorials out there for it.



Damn OPPM.

 

lol, anything better?.....




EDIT: Perhaps something where you can use keyframes and animate different body parts at a time...if you haven't already, go to www.xiaoxiaomovie.com...that's the kind of stuff i want to do. just on a lower scale...

 

Flash, Powerpoint, or Pencil Studio Max.


*Goes back into hding*

EDIT: Oh, oops. No, only PSM.

 

Flash is freeware? Is it some kinda trial version?

 

yeah, i would like to know that too. all i want to make is just matrix style stick figure battles...and whats with that pencil studio thing....is that a joke?

EDIT: and how would you animate stick battles with powerpoint?

 

I've done this kinda of stuff. Use MSPaint, make it frame by frame then put it in something like Jasc. Download the free trail of Animation Shop? 3 and hack it so you can keep it forever, thats what i use, works very good

good luck

Edit: Or look on Kazaa

 

Well, if you are willing to actually willing to use a trial version, I know how to do stick figures in After Effects. You just need to find a download for the trial (and powerpoint can't really do much with Matrix-style stick figure battle...)

 

I do have animation shop...it comes with paint shop pro. I've tried using that for this before...does anyone know of any other programs? or does anyone know how to use paint/animation shop to do stuff like this?

 

He just told you.

Make the animation frame-by-frame. Put the frames in Jasc. There you go.


You're probably better off doing this in some kind of program you can keyframa is. Or, better yet, use a 3D program so you can motion capture

 

Like this?

My friend, Paul did that one. I got more of his if you wanna see. He does em in Paint and Flash.

 

That was awesome!

 

that was pretty cool, lol. and yea, kind of like that only bigger...