Awesome Stick Figures

A zoetrope animation works by rapidly spinning a platter or cylinder with sequential images and viewing them through slits, under a strobe light, or by photographing them frame-by-frame. In this video, artist LimbaTrip shows how even a simple series of dots and lines can create a compelling zoetrope animation. Money shot at 3:08.

The latest in animator Alan Becker’s Animation vs. series starts with a stick person pushing a mysterious button. After discovering its effects, Sticky can’t get enough and goes back to the well too many times. The 11-minute short film is a poignant tale about the nature of addiction and mental health struggles.

Alan Becker’s Animation vs. series usually has stick figures battling the animation process or other stick figures. But in this short, our stick figure hero encounters a new challenge – mathematics. Things start with simple addition and subtraction, but the calculations quickly become harder to solve, especially when Euler’s Identity shows up.

Alan Becker continues his long-running Animator vs. Animation series with this action-packed short. It follows a super-powerful character on a thrilling journey to outsmart their adversaries and escape their digital confines. It’s like The Matrix and an Avengers movie but with stick figures.