If you're new to Stick Nodes or stickfigure animation in general, check out some of the tutorials below to hopefully have some of your questions answered!
Also keep in mind, these are just some tutorials picked over the years. There are countless tutorials made by community members all over Youtube. Just search "Stick Nodes tutorial" or, more specifically, "Stick Nodes walk tutorial" etc...
Youtuber Mr Onyx has a channel full of well-made and concise Stick Nodes tutorials. Video topics range across many different aspects of Stick Nodes and animation in general, including easing, camera movements, close-ups, and everyone's favorite - blood!
Community-Made Tutorials
These are tutorials I've seen on Youtube made by Stick Nodes users trying to help out other Stick Nodes users. There are many more not listed here, so just search "Stick Nodes tutorial" on Youtube!
How To Make Polyfill Hair (by TriZZby)
Me Making a Background Timelapse (by TriAnims)
How to Use FILTERS (by AutoAngel / Stick Nodes Tutorials)
Creating a Face (by Mici Animations)
How to Download Packs on Android (by Napalm)
How to Animate a Run Cycle (by Napalm)
Creating Boxing Shoes (by Mici Animations)
Creation Of The M4A1 Reciever Time Lapse (by Explosive Bullet)
Learning the Basics (by Mr Onyx)
Tips and Techniques 2020 Edition (by VariousPond)
Community-Made Skin/Mod Tutorials
Applying a skin to SN is something relatively new that some people don't know about. Good thing there's some neat tutorials on the subject. Also, see @arcionek's page on skins for more information.
Stick Nodes Tutorial: How to Make Custom Themes on iOS (without iTunes) (by Squi)
How to Make Your Own Stick Nodes Theme (by Kaido Mation)
Online Guide
Check out FrostBite Productions well-made online guide (with pictures!) on how to do some of the basics in Stick Nodes.
Link: https://giogioboi.wordpress.com/
Anything else you'd like to see a tutorial about?
Also if you have a tutorial you made and would like featured here, leave that in the comments too!
If you have QUESTIONS, its best to ask on either the FAQs page or better yet, make a post on the Activity section of the website.
How do I sumbit a stickfigure to the website because when I’m sumbitting a stick figure on the app it says I dont have a ccount or something
You can use the online submission form if you need https://sticknodes.com/submit-stickfigure/
As for in the app, it uses your email client, so I guess that’s what it’s telling you that you don’t have an account for? Is your email set up on your phone?
Why do you cough in the video? Not being nasty but it’s loud could you maybe edit it out next time? Thanks man
I was confused until I realized you were talking about that one user-created tutorial I have here. Yeah, that’s a bit distracting. You’d be better telling the video’s creator in the comments of the video though, not here, lol.
Hi Ralph could you do a video about how to make a sword instead of downloading them please 🙂 (amazing game you made
Ralph could you do more tutorials and could you do a how to make a scarf please
Hi aurelio.
I probably won’t, sorry. I really just don’t have the time to make such minor tutorials. Search Youtube though, there’s lots of user-created tutorials about everything in Stick Nodes, animating and creating stickfigures.
But there’s really no secret. You just add some segments to the neck-area of a stickfigure and you have a basic scarf.
Oh yeah Ralph what inspired you to make this game
Pivot, mainly. I used to spend days just messing around in Pivot back when I was younger. Then one day about a year or two ago I just started coding up my own version of it for mobile devices. Eventually the project got bigger and bigger and Stick Nodes was born.
How do you make a outline for your stick nodes character?
How I download sticky figures in iOS
Sticky figures, lol.
Please see this FAQ section.
Ralph it’s me xonegameing can you make more sounds for the game
Do you have anything specific in mind? I try to add a few new sounds each update.
Yeah blood splatter,eating and kicking sounds ralph plz add them
(This Subject is about rage of stick nodes) WHY CANT I USE ANY PIVOT VERSOIN INSTAID OF JUST OLD ONES I AM REALLY MADE ABOUT THIS IF YOU DONT CHANGE THIS I WILL RATE 1 AND ALSO MAKE THE MAX NODES HIGHER!
Hi, how’s it going?
Can’t use Pivot 3.0 or 4.0 STK files because I’m honoring the request from Pivot’s creator Peter Bone to leave those files exclusive to Pivot.
I can up the max nodes, but I won’t. It’s the biggest source of lag for many users and it’s a safeguard to prevent crashes and really bad lag.
You can be very creative with 256 nodes, just use them sparingly (use one node to “color” in an area rather than 5 or whatever). Look at FearlessAnimation’s MixMaster and the amount of detail he was able to include with just 256 nodes.
PLEASE HELP ME WITH EASING IDK WHAT TO DO FOR IT
Who would put 1 star to this fantastic app? Seriously, the app is just perfect. This is amazingly smart to limit nodes, so you can avoid lag and crashes and in my opinion, 256 nodes are a lot.
This app deserves 5 stars, Ralph thinked about everything to make the app easy to use and performant.
Let’s see how you’ll react when your app will have bad ratings.
Performant huh?
“Whether or not performant is actually a real word has been debated for some time. It does not appear in the dictionary, nor does Google definitions include it.”
Not sure if I can call you out on this or not…
IT STILL EXISTS :3
Could you PLEASE do me a favor: in ios whenever i try to design characters its hard because i cant set the length however i need so if you could add a feature where you can set the length and create squares possibly if it doesnt take too much trouble to do this too then add a possibility to add pictures to specific frames and be able to move them PLEASE!! Thanks for reading 😀
I don’t think squares will happen mainly to keep the draw tools as minimal and simple as possible. Plus, a square is just a segment with the correct length to thickness ratio. Length values are something I’ve debated myself, as I’ve even found that it would have been useful to have it sometimes. Still not sure, since I don’t want to clutter the tools area any more than it already is…
Thanks for the suggestions though, I’ll see what can be done.
Canu make one about smoothness
Help me Ralph, I can’t export and when I export at the original size what I can only see at the video is green
Try to post the vidéo on youtube and watch if there is still green screen. If not, your device don’t like sticknodes’ exports lol.
I’m looking into this issue, but for now, your animation is actually fine (it’s not green). When people have sent their “green” MP4s to me, I could view them fine. Also when they upload them to Youtube they’re fine too. So just upload/share it like normal and others/Youtube will be able to see it fine. I believe it has to do with some video-playing app that some people use. Which are you using?
Hey man, i see the tutorial of how make a stickman and i tried it, i made my stickfigure black, live ever, and he have a red tail, but i cant add color to the tail ( ligated with the movement point ) but when i change the stick figure color it color all the stickfigure
Sorry im Braziliam and havê bad english, if you can answer me pls do it
Dude chill I have done loads with this app it was actualy my first animation tool