I can’t say I remember what my first step into animation was, but I vaguely remember there being a 3d animation app on Androids that used Minecraft’s assets and artstyle. I also remember making an animation with that app of someone breakdancing (awfully) and showing it off to some friends at school. Wait, did I actually show it off to them…?

one time (probably like 2014 or 2012) while I was at a cousins house, I saw them using pivot. so first thing I did when I got home was download it, make some zombie animations, then try (and fail) to upload them to YouTube.

That computer later died a horrible & terrible death in 2018 so all that stuff’s forever lost to time.
probably for the better

I’ve always had a knack for drawing. Any bit of animation or drawing completely fascinated me. I was enthralled with it. But I guess I got it from watching Allen Becker. His stick figures finding themselves in the funniest scenario’s. Then I found sticknodes. And here we are

I think my inspiration to start creating animation came somewhere around from youtube or something lmao.

I started like 11 or 12 years ago with making mega bloks and lego stop motion on my Nintendo 3DS, I still have a huge collection of garbage on there. Then I eventually switched from stop motion to making 2D animation, I really don’t make stop motions anymore.

Definitely watching stickfigure animations on YT, got me interested. When I surfed across all the boof ones is when I said “no way it’s that hard”. That was lil Arzen. Now I understand people have different skill levels and skill sets. Still better than they were.

sticknodes randomly appeared on my school tablet. i deleted it and a couple years later i was like “hey what was that sticknodes thing” and here we are.

Mine started around 5 years ago when I was watching those stickman Shock videos and I thought it was so awesome. I was already really into drawing stickmen and Lego stop motion and post-it note animations. So when I found this app I just let my imagination go wild and it just went on from there.

It started when my brother was animating SSJ4 Goku and Canon Goku destroying Naruto (Yes that is true), It caught my eye for a while and soon, I downloaded the stick nodes app… the free one-

I was into BATIM so I made stks of those but then data was lost bc I made It all on a chromebook so I started making Godzilla Stks but that also vanished and then I made Godzilla Stks again but they all also perished.

I believe I was looking for more stks to modify when I saw this website, I was just a guest for a good few months.

I remember like it was yesterday (there’s 2 tho)

1) 2018 of February I was watching YouTube on the TV before going to school, that was when I saw a YouTube video on my recommended called Animation Vs. Minecraft.
Seeing that video just unlocked new parts of my brain and I instantly developed a love for stickfigures and 2d animation, and I wanted to start animating.

2) 2019 of November and I was sitting at my school lunch table until a kid named Caden was making comic books with me but soon after he showed me Stick Nodes. (If you want the full story about how I ended up here go to my 2021 end of the year post)

As I remember it, I was bored one day just sitting around. I was around 6 – 8.

I was looking around for apps in the play store, and I don’t really remember how but I was drove over to animation. Probably because of the animations at hyun’s dojo were cool.

So I downloaded Stick Nodes, and the exact moment it all began:

I animated naruto lifting his leg in 2 frames. The project no longer exists so it’s somewhere out there in space and time.

I would get okay at animation over some years, I switched from stick nodes to drawing cartoons, and then on my pc I would get pivot animator, switch between drawing cartoons and stick nodes again, then finally as it is now I would stick with stick nodes. Not because it was a better app than any other, but because I found out there was a community.

Then I spoke my first words: “I have some stickfigure coming soon uwu”

Somewhere in between all of this though I had gotten good at piano and art during the time which is why my skill lies where it is now.

I have always been one with the art
Then a couple days after my birthday I was like, “Yo this stick figure stuff looks fire, might try it”

And now here we are

I just kinda tried to find an animation app that was something like yours when I was somewhere around 8. I was browsing the App Store and came across Sticknodes. It all started with the animation “two guys,” and everything else isn’t that interesting.

Well my friendingly friend friending friendilingilng friendzilla friend. Mine started when I just got the urge to animate things. I looked on my tablet (didn’t even know about pivot, just got the idea) and decided that I wanted to animate 2d rigged animation, kinda like 3d. I looked and didn’t find anything. Then I came across Sticknodes, I was so happy. I was confused at first like how to add more figures, the I figured out how. Then I animated. It stunk, I wasn’t that good since I just started, but I was happy. Then I wanted to learn how to join stickfigures together and color separate nodes, which I found out. Then I learned about tween and used that. Then, I made my first smooth and decent animstion without tween. Symbiotic Spiderman vs Wolverine. I put a lot of effort into it. It wasn’t bad, but now I can make a similar animation in like 5 minutes. So that shows improvement. So I just kept animating without tween and soon I stumbled across undertale. I thought it was a weird game but downloaded it anyway. And 20 bags filled with tears later I decided to make animations of it. So that’s when I started to make undertale animations. Then I made a Sticknodes group. And after becoming the most hated person on Sticknodes after 1 day, I realized my mistake, apologized, and made a new undertale group to erase the drama. And that’s where I get here now. Day 3-4 on Sticknodes. So that my friendiling friend friendly chum friendilingly friendadengadingdong is how I started.

i dont remember the exact event because i was pretty young but i think that i uh.. searched animation or something in the appstore because i was unhappy with most animation apps
that or it was recommended to me in the appstore

It was Stop Motion Animation. Y’know, That dead art that was popularized when cgi wasn’t a thing.
We moved, and I was unable to continue animation due to shit that was lost in the move.
Then I remembered a stupid 2D Animation app I downloaded when I was 10. Viola.

Started using the app around early 2018, didn’t even know there was a website until 2020.