08Stick figure in the real world
a white-line stick figure drawn into real footage
Stick figure animation draws characters as simple black-marker lines with flipbook jitter.
07Simple stick-figure animation drawn in black felt-tip marker on plain white paper: the girl is a stick figure with a circle head, dot eyes, a curved-line smile and a small triangle skirt, and the rooftop, pots, tomato plants and city skyline are sketched as a few simple outlines, everything in single wobbly black lines on bare white paper, the lines jittering slightly from frame to frame like a hand-drawn flipbook. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a stick-figure girl with a scribbled ponytail waters potted tomato plants with a simple outline watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and a few drawn water droplets fall onto the leaves. 2–4s: a little outline paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: everything stays black-marker stick-figure line drawing on white paper, the lines jittering like a flipbook, one continuous take.
Simple stick-figure animation drawn in black felt-tip marker on plain white paper: the girl is a stick figure with a circle head, dot eyes, a curved-line smile and a small triangle skirt, and the rooftop, pots, tomato plants and city skyline are sketched as a few simple outlines, everything in single wobbly black lines on bare white paper, the lines jittering slightly from frame to frame like a hand-drawn flipbook.
Give the stick figure one or two identifying marks (a ponytail, a triangle skirt) so it stays the same character from beat to beat. Expect a slightly fuller face than a pure circle head.
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