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I think you should work on animating multiple things at the same time, like have man number two moving while man number one shoots him.

Yes, that's another problem.

I do know that it's rather annoying to do that though.

I've tried it before but I always forget to move one and then it looks weird.
Edit1: The prolouge sucks so I'll tell you the story myself.
Years ago in stikland, all stik's were white and couldn't disagree on anything, no fights, no arguments, no wars. It was paradise, one day however, a demon rose from hell and gave a young stik a book, the stik read the book front to end. He learned spells and magic from the book, he could heal, he could do amazing things. And he did, as he grew older, got married and such, his skin grew darker, and darker. when it became jet-black he suddenly gained powers even better than that of the book, he also lost his mind and killed his wife and everyone within a 10-metre radius of his house in one big explosion. He teleported around the world, killing everyone. He was unstoppable.
Another stik found the book which amazingly was unharmed, more stiks studied the book without the dark consequences, due to them already happening to the other stik. The stiks studied the book alll the way through until they worked out the dark purpose of it. While the book itself was indestrucable, the pages coul be taken out, which they were. The stiks used the pages to create flags, some red, some blue, and one white. The darkstik carried on killing until he got to the magicstiks, they fought him but could not win, the last of the stiks used all of his power and even all of his life-force to seal the darkstik inside the white flag. An angel came from heaven to see the barren wastland, this angel happened to be the angel of darkstik's wife, she used the power left over from the deaths to create life, redstiks began to appear out of the red flags and bluestiks began to come out of the blue flags. The ange returned to heaven, having done her duty, while the blue stiks found a note, written by on of the last stiks.

The magic in the book is amazing! But we can't afford the blackstik find it, we have planned to take the book apart and create flags with the pages, if the blackstik wants the book he'll need to go all over the world!

The bluestiks noticed the red flags and tried to take them, but the redstiks had already worked out they needed them to finish the book, they fought over the flags and have been ever since.

invertin wrote:I've tried it before but I always forget to move one and then it looks weird.

That's the same problem I have, but you should try anyway.

And nice story!

hey, i like the spy one its pretty good..capture the flag was pretty cool too..heres a short thing i did with pivot...i used to have heaps but my computer crashed a while ago and i lost them all....ohwell

IMO, that looks better than Stik.

I'm not saying Stik is bad. I already voted that I liked Stik.

i have lots of stick characters and stuff including and alien..i just made a quick alien animation...

What is that? A giant virus?

haha nah its my attempt at a stick alien (like aliens from alien or alien vs predator)

That looks good hamish, glad to see another pivot user! My newest animaion is based off of http://www.linetested.com/studio/icantc ... animations these animations, I call it; Asteroids.
http://www.freewebs.com/invertinpiccies/asteroids.gif
WARNING: Lots of things happen at once in this and I lost track of where the asteroids were moving, do not be alarmed if they change direction.

Not bad, and nice on the extra activity! Also, I think you might've increased the frame rate a bit since earlier animations?

By the way, I love the icantcolourin animations, especially the tetris fan animation. Just so you know, I didn't just find out about it now though, I've seen them all a while ago (About a year or something)

http://www.freewebs.com/invertinpiccies/spystikii.gif
I didn't look that fast until I put it on the internet, so the ending and intro are screwed up because of that.

That one's better. It has some Prince of Persia charme to it (the original).
But it's still kinda choppy, you might want to find out how to make really fluid animations with your tool.
Isn't there some keyframe animation tool out there that deals with stick figures? That should produce smooth results.

No choppyness! But that was too easy, it was just to see if I could.