Intuitive and fun animation tool for creating stick figure animations with ease.
Stykz is a freeware animation creator app and image animation tool developed by Sons of Thunder Software for Windows, it's easy-to-use, helpful and user friendly.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Create stick figure animations
Stykz is a stickfigure animation program that was inspired by the popular Pivot Stickfigure Animator software. In addition to cross-platform support it adds several feature enhancements along with the ability to import and use your existing Pivot (.stk) animations.
While similar in many ways, Stykz offers a completely different interface (multiple floating windows) along with in-scene editing, the ability to copy/paste figures, streching and distorting of elements, layer arrangements and more.
Stykz provides several tutorial to get you started with your first animation, as well as detailed information for users that are switching over from Pivot. Your animation can be exported to animated GIF, .MOV video (requires Quicktime) or a series of PNG or JPEG still images.
Features of Stykz
- "Draw" your figures by simply right-clicking and dragging, either directly on the Stage or from an existing node; segments are automatically drawn and added to your figure as you go.
- Arrow keys can be used to move selected figure(s) by 1 pixel; hold down the Shift key to move in 10 pixel increments.
- Figures can be created and edited directly in place.
- Figures can be rotated, scaled, flipped, duplicated, colorized and re-layered.
- Stykz is frame-based, letting you to work on individual frames of your animation.
- Test your animation in Stykz before you export it; export to QuickTime, Animated GIF, or a sequence of images.
- You can have multiple animation ȁCdocumentsȁD open at the same time and can cut, copy and paste between documents.
- You can share your Stykz files with others and even include information with the file that tells who created it, when it was last modified and even provides a place to include usage instructions.
Compatibility and License
Stykz is provided under a freeware license on Windows from image animation software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 1.0.2 is the latest version last time we checked.
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