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3Animated works featuring a StickFigureComic aesthetic, most of which are done strictly for comedic purposes.
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5They have a cult following, especially within the Flash community. It's worth noting that during the early 2000s, this style of animation became quite common. Due to the general lack of detail on stick figures, this makes this style incredibly easy to animate for even those with the most rudimentary animation skill.
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7Compare StickFigureComic which is the non-animated variant.
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11* The ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'' series focuses around a stick figure fighting it's creator. Well, until the fourth part, where the two sides become friends. After that, the stick figures explore different games and websites.
12* ''The Battlefield'' series. (flash animation one, seen at Newgrounds)
13* The ''WebAnimation/CastleSeries'' is an interesting subversion: [[SeriousBusiness it's more dramatic than comedic]], and it's very cinematic and well-written. The characters just happen to be stick figures.
14* In ''WebVideo/CGPGrey'', humans (excluding [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Historical Domain Characters]]) are drawn in stick figures, including CGP Grey himself.
15* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie''.
16* ''VideoGame/DefendYourCastle''
17* Basically anything that parodies children's drawings have this. Case in point, an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' that was written by a little boy, and they animated it somewhat in this style.
18* ''WebAnimation/DickFigures''
19* Creator/DonHertzfeldt (''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}'' especially)
20* Creator/EddGould, many of his early animations featured stick figures when he began his online animation career at Website/StickFigureDeathTheater.
21* Creator/FamousStudios did a handful of cartoons done as children's crayon drawings. Ironically, they are among their only cartoons to get any kind of critical acclaim.
22* The ''VideoGame/GameAndWatch'' provides a classic VideoGame example.
23* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}'' short "How to Play Golf" a stick figure is used to show proper swinging form, but then steps into the story proper to caddy Goofy.
24* ''WebAnimation/GradeAUnderA'': A {{rant comed|y}}ian who uses crude drawings of simple stickfigures in minimalist, Windows Movie Maker animations.
25* The VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries combines this with {{Gamebooks}}.
26* ''WebComic/{{Irrelevator}}'' It's a webcomic, but it has animation and stickfigures and animated stickfigures.
27* The 'Kuzco's Doodles' segment from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''.
28* The ''VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures'' games.
29* Very popular in Fluidanims even though it is a general animation site that allows non-stickman animations.
30* ''WesternAnimation/KaputAndZosky'' has both title characters, as well as some characters, drawn with stick arms and legs.
31* ''WebAnimation/KillingSpree''
32* Humans (and cats and sheep) in ''WebVideo/MinutePhysics'' are drawn in stick figures, to the point they made a video on how to draw a stick figure.
33* In the game ''One Finger Death Punch'', both you and your [[MultiMookMelee many, many enemies]] are rendered like this.
34* Used in a few episodes at the start of the fourth television season of ''Series/OurMissBrooks''. For example, in "Who's Who", Miss Brooks narrates her efforts to beg a favor from Mrs. Nestor. The backdrop to Miss Brooks' narration is a stick figure picture of Miss Brooks pleading with Mrs. Nestor.
35* Various animations made using Pivot Animator (formerly known as Pivot Stickfigure Animator and often shortened to Pivot), such as the ''Stick Figures on Crack'' series and its [[FollowTheLeader countless derivatives]] and unofficial installments.
36* The 2D world in ''Animation/RabbitAndDeer'' looks like this. When Deer becomes 3D, he still keeps the stick figure aesthetic.
37* ''WebAnimation/RevoltTVAnimation'': A web animated duology commercial
38* Flash animator Terkoiz's ''WebAnimation/ShockSeries'', and [[http://www.stickpage.com/topstickplay.shtml Top Stick]], his tribute to the genre.
39* ''WebAnimation/SlushInvaders''
40* ''[[VideoGame/StickFight Stick Fight The Game]]'' combines this with... [[ItMakesSenseInContext Well.]] FightingGame.
41* ''WesternAnimation/StickGirl'': The entire show is an animated stick figure cartoon show.
42* [[http://www.stickpage.com StickPage]] is an entire site that's dedicated to collecting and showcasing works in this genre. This is where some of the popular animations such as ''Joe Zombie'' and ''WebOriginal/RockHardGladiators'' comes from.
43** ''WebAnimation/XiaoXiao'', which is one of the TropeCodifier works.
44* ''VideoGame/StickWar'': a real-time strategy game trilogy.
45* ''WebAnimation/TheStickworld'' is a series expanding on the premise of stick figures risking their lives by jumping or flying across a cliff.
46* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'' is a rare mainstream example of this.
47** Stick Figure Theatre from WesternAnimation/LiquidTelevision counts as well.
48* ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad''
49* ''WebAnimation/{{Tetrisd}}'' is a ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' fan animation.
50* Mr Skeleton Head, introduced on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' during Elmyra's ADayInTheLimelight episode. Later appeared on the "Good Idea Bad Idea" segments of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
51* Resh's animations featuring {{WebAnimation/Umbrella}}.
52* In the WebOriginal, there is the rageface comics {{meme|ticMutation}}.
53* The Stick people in the informational section of Nash's ''[[WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou What The #### Is Wrong With You?!]]'' videos. They've become silent, recurring characters who only use Sign Speak. Whenever he elaborates on the topic of the day's news he uses good old Stickboy and stick animation to elaborate.
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57* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Porky's Preview", this is result of Porky Pig trying his hand in animation.
58* In ''AKingOfInfiniteSpace'', people who were frozen and remade into a new body had a computer embedded in head that showed stick animations to show how things are done while re-learning how to do things while their brains reconnect to memories.
59* ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} made one in "Cartoons Ain't Human", starring himself and Olive Oyl.

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