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Stick Nodes®
A stickfigure animation app created for mobile devices!
Create your own stickman animations on your Android or iOS device!
Stick Nodes®
A stickfigure animation app created for mobile devices!
Create your own stickman animations on your Android or iOS device!
If this were a homemade animation, I would definitely have to rate it 4/5 or 5/5 even, because the visuals are stellar!
Unfortunately, 10 seconds in, I realized all of them were traced.
There isn’t much to critique here. This isn’t an actual animation, just a drawn-out trace of actual animations. While the figures may look good, that doesn’t warrant anything above a 1/5.
There was work put in, but it was put in to copy, and I can’t really give much for that.
1/5.
man some of ya’ll are straight savage
This animation is a rather interesting one. The visuals are super unique, since it uses line art of the characters instead of traditional stickfigures. Sure, the line art is traced, but the amount of effort it would’ve taken to trace all of those and animate them the way they were is impressive. Though the fight wasn’t anything special, this animation was interesting just based on artstyle alone.
I can’t say much for the plot, since there isn’t plot present. It’s more or less just an excuse to get the two characters to fight, so it’s nothing special. Humor isn’t present either, so neither category is getting much attention.
Overall, I’d give it a 4.5/10.
I don’t understand how the effort gone into copying someone else’s work validates the existence of their work. This is not someone’s own style in work, but the art style of legitimate animators being paid for their skill, and that skill is being blatantly plagiarized. Of course, the visuals are unique, they’re copied off of legitimate good animation and art.
This is basically stating that “going through the effort of stealing another person’s hard work is worth 4.5 points.” It is unacceptable to reward that sort of creative theft. Perhaps focusing on any other aspect of a good animation besides obsession over detail would make this apparent.
PL Team Slave OwnerWas scrolling through a load of comment to see if there was anybody commenting on the obvious tracing, and there was. And the answer to “Did you just trace like every frame?” Was “yes, like 90%.”
While honesty is appreciated, the original rating would be a 4/5 knowing that there certainly was traced stuff. But if even more of that is traced, I gotta pull 2 stars away. The effort put in is commendable, but it doesn’t mean much when it wouldn’t improve too much on the original. It would make sense if it where traced for the sake of improving framerate or quality with a buff in resolution, but no. 4k resolution in SN is non existant. You can’t export that unless you take loads of time exporting quarters of the screen. By moving the camera around, and pressing export for every quarter, then putting it together in a video editor. But this video even then is 720p on youtube. I have to 1080p option to view it and the video isn’t even that clear. So really can’t give this much. I was entertained watching it, but if it isn’t actually made from scratch, then really can’t give it as much credit.
yo you’re absolutely killing it with all these reviews
PL Team Slave Owner*Still awaiting my special badge*
i remember when i first saw this, and this animation was back in 2017 so we’re approaching 3-years-old
very impressive, was the first “fullbody”-style SN vid I ever saw
I think there’s been a few more since this one and I hate I don’t remember them off the top of my head
its one of those things that’s tedious as hell to do and doesn’t necessarily require “too much” skill, but the result is still satisfying
…like building sht in Minecraft
as an mc builder
time is not real
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kinda shame this got the lowest rating so far. Despite how much time actually had to be put to this considering camera wasn’t even a thing back then.
These figures were literally stolen from legitimate animators, despite the “amount of time” that was put in. You can’t give high regard to an animation that has engaged in this level of creative theft. It’s like rewarding a thief because of the effort they go into stealing something. Even if you like what the thief did, it’s still stealing.
I’m pretty sure they understood your point the first few times you said it. You don’t need to keep shoving it down people’s throats, y’know.
It appears I do since not many seem to understand the apparent creative theft displayed here with their comments supporting the matter. I don’t think stealing another person’s work should be encouraged, so I am simply speaking that opinion. They have every right to agree with me or support this act of stealing just as I have the right to speak my case on it. I just don’t think it’s right to let this sort of stealing go unpunished or even favored in this case.
Would you agree that creative theft is unjust and should not be rewarded? Is that really a point we need to “shove down people’s throats?” If it is, that completely demonstrates the problem at hand. If it isn’t, I wouldn’t be making these arguments, because everyone would already have the common sense of how plagiarized work should be viewed.
So, to reiterate, no. They do not understand the point here. I don’t think this blatant stealing should be rewarded with praise over “the hard work it took to steal”. However, that is not an opinion many people here apparently share, which is a problem in itself. Wouldn’t you agree that a majority of people believing that stealing a piece of art, as long as “it took time and effort to steal”, is a problem that needs to be addressed? Or do you support that theft?
Okay, where are the figures then? I want them so I can do this, and just download them off of wherever you are so sure he just got these from. Sticknodes is not a program where creating hundreds of frames is feasible in this quality. Whether or not he drew these originally is besides the point entirely. He created hundreds of stickfigures, spent months assembling them in such a way that looked professional, and went through insane amounts of images to trace them with simple shapes is what is impressive here. Sticknodes is not nearly as robust as the professional programs that were used when creating the original drawings, especially three years ago, when the camera, polyfills, movieclips, and other things that are now present did not exist. There were also several limitations, like the node limit being 256, only being able to use 20 stickfigures in one frame, and the technical limitations of a three year old mobile device, likely even older. The fact that you fail to recognize the artistic prowess and immense will required to create an animation like this baffles me.
You attribute the major qualities of artistic success to a thief rather than a legitimate artist, a problem common for members of this community. Work put into creating something does not mean it is automatically worth something.
I recognize the artistic prowess of the original creator of these scenes and works. You recognize the “artistic prowess” of a thief copying off of someone else’s prowess and attributing it to their own. Just because it was “difficult” to steal frames and copy them does not mean it is acceptable in any way or should be encouraged.
These images are not original. He stole them. Contrary to your moronic statement, the fact that he did not draw them is exactly the point rather than beside it. It is not “artistic prowess” to blatantly copy off something, it is creative theft. That is true, is it not? If we can’t agree on something so simple and basic as that, then having a conversation with you would be a waste of time.
Honestly, the blatant support for animation theft in this community is baffling. Where did things go wrong for people to become this senseless?