Stykz is a frame-based animation system where a user creates and manipulates stick figures composed of "segments" (limbs) and "nodes" (joints). Ken decided to release the Macintosh version first because of the needs of the Macintosh community, plus the fact that Windows users already had a stick figure animation tool. This date, affectionately dubbed "Stykzmas", became the first time the public had ever heard about Stykz. So he decided that it was time to develop the first cross-platform stick figure animation program that would address the limitations of Pivot and also continue to be actively developed and influenced by feedback provided by its end users.ĭevelopment continued off and on through 2008 until December 25, 2008, when the first Macintosh Public Beta was released. Ken had been creating software using Revolution for a long time and knew the benefits of its cross-platform development and deployment capabilities, along with built-in drawing and painting tools that could be scripted to allow the end user to implement them. Pivot was also no longer under active development (its last "release" being in 2005), so the fixes/additions that Pivot users were asking for were likely not coming any time in the near future. Near the middle of 2007, Ken Ray, a freelance software developer and consultant, began writing Stykz after discovering the limitations of Pivot, and the fact that there was no solution available for Macintosh users (forcing them to have to resort to using an emulator or virtualization program to run Pivot). However, a version hasn't been released since 2011. A version for Linux is being developed and is in an internal beta phase, and will be released as a Public Beta when it is ready. Version 1.0 for Windows and Macintosh has been recently released. It is similar to the popular Pivot Stickfigure Animator and builds upon many of the features from it, also adding its own functionality. Stykz ( ) is a freeware multi-platform stick-figure animation program, developed and maintained by Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
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