An easy way to create basic animations
Creating animated cartoons sounds a bit daunting, but if you start by creating doodle stick animations with Stykz, it's a different story.
Stykz is a dead easy animation tool with which you can create basic animated sequences with stick figures and other geometrical shapes. You can't use your own drawings or add a background, but on the upside Stykz offers you complete control over each single frame, and a dozen points in each figure to create movement.
Each new frame you insert in the animation sequence shows an outline of the previous position so that you can create the new movement with higher accuracy. The program also includes a built-in player to preview the final animation.
Stykz lets you export your animation to several different formats (animated GIF and QuickTime movie among others) but has one main drawback: the Undo tool doesn't work. The author has promised that it'll be fixed in future releases though. Meanwhile, you can save at different stages along your work and revert the animation at a previously saved point as a workaround.
With Stykz you can learn and practice the basics of animations by creating basic animated sequences with simple stick figures.
User reviews about Stykz
by DarkIce Wizard
Stykz is good for any user from simple to professional..
Stykz is a very good program that can provide basic animations or complicated i would suggest it to any of my friends who want to do stick figure animations.
Pros:
the pivoting works very well
adding landscapes is easy
Cons:
there is not rotating th whole character (at leasdt that i'v found) More
by Anonymous
Review Corrections.
The review by Elena Santos was based on a very old version of Stykz. 1.0 supports more than a dozen points (you can add your own if you like), and has full undo. More
by Anonymous
Really nice,...but.
For say the truth I keep it without know anything about it, so I wasn't waiting for a lot. But now I think it is pretty nice. Truly! Many things that's possible do with it, about scenery, colorizeit etc. Really pretty funny and easy to use. Just a couple of "sin", till now I wasn't able to "put" eyes or mouth on the head, so I could appreciate better when I move it and ....the truly sad thing...I don't know haw to "put" the little "movie" that I made with that program, on my blogs! The rest is CUTE!!!!!!!! More