Stick Nodes

Stick Nodes is an app designed for those who love animation and want to learn how to animate their own characters. While it may look basic at first glance, it comes loaded with custom features and allows you to share all your creations.

If you ever wanted to learn how to make animated characters but couldn't afford college or online classes, this app can teach you all the fundamentals that you need to know. It starts out with simple stick figures that you can make move and dance across your screen. You can zoom in on the joints and other features to decide how each body part should move. The app has an undo feature for those times when you make a change and don't like how it looks and a redo feature for anything you want to fix.

You'll find other tools in the form of buttons on the side of the screen. Those buttons allow you to copy a stick figure that you made and paste it into another file or to paste a figure that you copied before into your current file. There are also buttons that let you tell the app how to move your figures. While using this app can take some time, you may have fun experimenting with all the buttons and features to see what each one does. If you need any extra help, you'll find loads of free videos available on YouTube.

Once you feel more confident in your skills, you can go beyond simple stick figures. This app allows you to customize your figures with clothing and hair or other features. You can make figures that look just like any of your favorite animated characters. Some users disliked that the app only lets them save 40 characters in total though. As you become a better animator, you may need to delete some of your older figures to give yourself some room.

With support available in five languages, Stick Nodes is a suitable app for animators from around the world. It has a simple interface that asks you to pinch your fingers together and move them to make changes to your figure and to move it across the screen. You can save all your work in videos that use either an MP4 or a GIF format and export those files to websites such as YouTube. Stick Notes is one of the ultimate free apps for budding animators of all ages.

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
• Is quite challenging to use
• Some users reported frequent crashes

◆ Fixed empty import lists when opening project

◆ Dropdown boxes now have a search filter to more easily navigate your imported stickfigures/movieclips/sounds

◆ Fixed bug regarding Quick Resize Tool turning on/off at wrong times

◆ Fixed bug regarding 0-length node smart-stretch issue