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.
Excuse me, but how do you upload an animation to your own pictures/videos?
Once you export a GIF or MP4, it will show up in your Photos/Gallery.
I am having trouble with something, how do I remove the frames and settings? I want to upload this, so all of that gone would be helpful.
You delete frames with the “Delete” button at the top-right. As for settings, not sure what you mean by that?
Hello again I have a request for sounds. I would like there to be a charge up sound for dbz, a fusion sound for dbz, and a sound for a beam struggle and maybe a few others I can think of off the top of my head
Thanks for the suggestions, but I’m not sure if I want to add more DBZ sounds to the app by default. There’s already so many, and not everyone is into DBZ/those types of sounds so I don’t want to bog the app down with more. You’re free to download a DBZ sound pack/files from a Google search and add them to the app yourself, though.
Gun reload sounds
Now
Do it Ralph.
Ralph, or any one reading this, how do I add sound to my animations, I get very confused on how to add sounds and how they work for that matter
You can add sounds with the Pro version, do you have the Pro version?
If so, look under “Frame Tools” when you’re on the particular frame on which you want to add a sound.
Oh,frame tools, thanks Ralph, that helped, and I do have the pro version, but thanks for clarifying how to add sounds, I was confused on the FAQs on how to add them
Could I add sound without pro version
Mmm… Maybe, if you record your video with a screen recorder, like Airshou, then with a video editor you can add sounds, but you have to download them before, here’s some video editors if you are on android; power director and
I movie, if you’re on ios, like me, well i dont know, they’re all shi*, you hav to pay for the good ones
Ralph im kinda a good animator but I need to learn how to do combos like u beacause idk I can do them but urs r better sooooo
Ralph doesn’t make combos, search toturials on youtube, d4v1ddd anims makes them
Hi ralph its eddie again umm…
Can you make it to where there’s sounds on the demo version but they have limited soundsi have over 1000 subcribers on my youtube channel and they keep asking me to get sounds on my animations but i cant because i dont have a credit card or anything like that and i dont want to loose my fans. I cant let them down.Can you please figures somthing out
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Hi Ralph i downloaded the file
explorer like your tutorial said to do but why arent the packs showing up in my inventory of nodes? Please help. Im a very, very, ,very big fan by the way!
Did you export it to the stickfigure file?
You don’t need file explorer.I think it said for a zip file opener,or was that for IOS only?
For ZIP files, you need to extract the files first, the app can’t handle opening ZIP files on its own right now.
To do this, use an app like FX File Exporer. Open that app, go into /download/, unzip the ZIP file. That should extract all of the files into the /download/ folder. Now just go open Stick Nodes and it should see them since they’re now extracted.
You can just go on yo7r folder explorer(folders for android only)then, just go on donwload,choose your character,move them to sticknodes/stickfigures and the job is done,no need to have Fx file somefing
I have a 2 questions
If you buy the good version dose it save your animations drone the free version???
If you wanted to save it is there a save to Laboratory button or do you need a screen recorder???
Hi. Yeah, on Android Stick Nodes Free and Pro share the same folder.
On iOS, this is not possible. You will have to move the files from the Free version to the Pro version, but it’s easily doable. See this FAQ question here.
I assume laboratory was a typo, lol. But yes, “Export GIF” and “Export MP4” exports your animation as a GIF/video to your Photos app.
How do I upload stickfigures to that online place , FTL Ralph?
From within the app, under “Library Tools”, click “Submit stickfigure”. It gets emailed to me and I have to approve it, but it takes 10-14 days due to the amount of submissions I get.