I did not make this but I'd bet we could figure out how to do it. I think it was a movie that was wider and the artist drew the stick figure by kind of tracing the real one but making a stick figure, starting about half way across, then deleted the actual movie from it. It's a fun thing to think about.

I'd say FencePost (Art) knows how to do it.

That is really cool!

I am not familiar with this stuff, but is it possible to combine a flash file with a GIF? If so, this could be the outcome. It would make more sense if you could put both together, but like I said, I am not a genius on this stuff.

Sorry - I just had to dig this one up. It is so brilliant!

now this would be an awesome tutorial...especially for the gimp magazine!

really brilliant and should be not too complex

Pivot StickFigure animator and a gif would probably combine real well for this.

I need a program like Pivot! I wonder if it runs on Wine.

Here are three i use. Wine should work with at least one of these programs.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-free-sti ... on-career/

Wine compatible Tisfat here
http://www.iwasdeportedandalligotwasthi ... at0684.zip

tisfat looks really cool, if only I had the time to learn how to use and play with it!

Pivot is fun to play with. Forgot all about stick figure animations.

Did anyone figure out how to do the task posed in post #1?

I think you if you could turn a movie clip into an animated .gif
then open that .gif and trace the layers. and remove the original content of where you traced and you have yourself this kind of traced animated movie.

Here's a sample .gif found on the net.



And then I just put a guide in the middle and traced each frame and deleted content and i have this.


PS: Thank god the example above only had 8 frames, otherwise I don't think i would have the patience to do it.