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Turn an idea into a polished stickman video with a consistent visual style.
I'm testing popular stickman animation styles from across the web and sharing the workflows here, free and open source. Install the Skill, give your AI a topic, and get a script, animated storyboards, and prompts for narration and sound effects.
Next time you want to make a stickman animation, start here. For YouTube explainers, TikTok videos, workplace and motivational stories, educational content, and punchy shorts about everyday life.
Minimalist Monochrome
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Modern Tech
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Prehistoric Dark Comedy
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Cozy Storytelling
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Historical Cartoon
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More styles coming soon… |
5 styles · 7 visual options · Tested examples · Free and open source
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A few lines can explain a big idea. On a pure-white or pure-black canvas, characters, props, and accent colors do the storytelling. A good fit for fast, clear explainers.
- The look: Round heads, line limbs, consistent stroke weight, and occasional simple expressions. Up to three vivid accent colors distinguish emotions, risks, or actions. Turn anxiety into a cage or attention into a progress bar.
- Best for: Science, psychology, motivation, self-management, business breakdowns, and explaining concepts.
- Which version? White backgrounds feel clean and direct; choose black backgrounds for stronger contrast, tension, and emotional impact.
| Style 1A: Black on White | Style 1B: White on Black |
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| White canvas · Black figure | Black canvas · White figure |
The red beanie and yellow T-shirt make this character easy to recognize. Use a clean tech setting to explain a product, or take the character into bedrooms, streets, and open landscapes for a story.
- The look: One recognizable character, two kinds of world. 2A pairs white space and a faint grid with floating glass interfaces and cyan-blue light. 2B uses colorful settings, cinematic lighting, and depth.
- Best for: 2A suits AI tools, tech products, tutorials, and feature demos. 2B suits personal growth, everyday situations, adventures, and motivational stories.
- Which version? Choose 2A to explain a tool or method; choose 2B to follow a character through an experience.
| Style 2A: Minimal Tech | Style 2B: Cinematic Story |
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| White space · Faint grid · Cyan glow | Colorful settings · Cinematic light · Story atmosphere |
Take today's problems back to a world without phones or offices. Caves, animal hides, campfires, and exaggerated expressions turn familiar workplace frustrations and human quirks into stories with a twist.
- The look: Rough hand-drawn outlines, white-filled heads, dark stick limbs, animal-hide clothes, and earthy scenery. Character interaction, reaction shots, and comic timing matter. Cast adults, children, or elders to fit the story; every story needn't use the same face.
- Best for: Prehistoric what-ifs, workplace satire, observations about human nature, dark comedy, fables, and children's English stories.
- Why choose it? For a short setup and an unexpected payoff—especially when modern relationships become absurdly familiar in a prehistoric tribe.
| Example 1: “How Did Humans Get Their First Job?” | Example 2: “Humans Discover Fire” |
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| Prehistoric workplace comedy | Fire discovery · Community creation |
A mug you've been saving for a special occasion. A message you feel compelled to answer. An afternoon you finally keep for yourself. Simple characters step into colorful everyday settings, with actions, expressions, and camera work carrying the story.
- The look: White-filled round heads, slender bodies, dark stick limbs, and small, natural expressions in full-color 2D cartoon environments. Wide shots establish the place; close-ups catch hesitation or relief; tracking shots keep the story moving.
- Best for: Relatable everyday stories, personal growth, relationships, warm moments, habit building, and children's English content.
- Why choose it? To help viewers recognize themselves in a small moment. Color and lighting follow the topic: warmth, anxiety, exhaustion, or a fresh start.
| Example 1: Message Anxiety on the Commute | Example 2: Making Time for Yourself |
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| Train station · Tracking shots · Emotional close-ups | Outdoor café · Warm light · Everyday gestures |
History, with a cast you can follow. Send a samurai through Edo's streets, meet a black cat in an Egyptian temple, or follow a soldier into a Roman camp. Period costumes, colorful settings, and small comic turns make the past feel like a story rather than a slide deck.
- The look: White-filled round heads, simple black oval eyes, bold outlines, and thin stick limbs, with period clothing, soft cel shading, and painted backgrounds. Change the wardrobe, buildings, props, and score for each era—not the underlying character style.
- Best for: World history, surprising facts, everyday life in the past, historical figures, and history-themed comedy.
- Why choose it? To turn a fact into something happening to a character. Use a clear situation, a telling reaction, or a twist to carry the explanation.
| Example 1: Everyday Life in Edo Japan | Example 2: Cats and Mummies in Ancient Egypt |
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| Edo streets · Samurai clothing · Everyday surprises | Painted temple · Black cat · Historical curiosity |
Style and prompt contribution: Lawal Ridwan / @leksautomate. Japanese sample provided by the original creator.
It plans the writing and the visuals together—not just a stick figure's appearance.
| Part | What you get |
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| Script | A hook, progression, and payoff, with narration and a reference translation where needed. |
| Visuals | Character actions, props, camera moves, transitions, and sound cues. |
| Continuity | Character, prop, and narrator profiles, plus transitions between clips. |
| Framing | Composition and shot choices adapted to landscape or portrait. |
| Revisions | A proposal to approve before the final prompts. |
First, review the director's proposal: narration, scenes, camera work, and sound design. Once you approve it, get standalone Gemini Omni Flash video prompts for each segment, plus stitching, transition, and subtitle notes.
The Skill plans the video and writes the prompts. Flow or another video tool generates the clips; a video editor handles the final assembly and subtitles. No API or MCP setup is required for the Skill.
Send this to your AI assistant:
Install this Skill for me:
https://github.com/kaomei/stickman-video-director
Send a topic, draft, or article. For example:
Make a stickman video called “How Did Humans Get Their First Job?”
Choose settings → Review the proposal → Request changes → Approve and get your prompts.
If you haven't chosen an aspect ratio or style, the Skill asks. Pick landscape 16:9 or portrait 9:16, then a style from the gallery. It won't ask again for settings you've already given. Videos default to 60 seconds; say “let's try 30 seconds first” for a shorter test.
Next comes the director's proposal: story structure, narration for each segment, character actions, camera work, and sound design. Review the whole plan and request changes before approving the final video prompts.
“How Did Humans Get Their First Job?” | Landscape 16:9 · Style 3: Prehistoric Dark Comedy · 30 seconds
This is the storyboard approved before making the example above. The sample's original narration is preserved:
| Time | Scene and action | Voiceover |
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| 0–10s: Keeping trouble out | A caveman drags his stone club into the cave and collapses onto a straw bed. A huge saber-toothed tiger's shadow appears at the entrance. He opens one eye: “Again?” He rolls a boulder across the opening, dusts off his hands, and goes back to bed. End on his satisfied face. | “Ten thousand years ago, one man finally solved all his problems. He shut them outside.” |
| 10–20s: The boss finds you | Just as he closes his eyes, three knocks come from the entrance. The boulder shifts open a crack. The chief leans in, smiling, and offers a spear. The caveman waves it away. Then the chief produces a roasted leg of meat. The caveman sniffs, eyes suddenly wide. Cut outside: spear in hand, he's being nudged toward giant animal tracks. | “Then someone offered him food… in exchange for a small favor. Congratulations. Employment was invented.” |
| 20–30s: The price of progress | He returns to the same cave covered in dust, drops the spear, and holds out his hand for the meat. The chief offers a tiny piece with a professional smile, then presses a whole bundle of spears into his arms, pats his shoulder, and leaves. The caveman looks from the meat to the spears, then slowly at the camera. He lies back down, but the spears jab him upright. | “The reward got smaller. The workload got bigger. And somehow… they called that progress.” |
Don't like a line or a scene? Say what to change. Final prompts come only after your approval. This 30-second example produces three roughly ten-second prompts covering characters, action, camera work, narration, and audio.
Submit the prompts to Google Flow in order. Assemble the clips in CapCut or another editor, adjust the joins, and add subtitles. A 30-second video usually uses three roughly ten-second prompts; a 60-second video uses six.
For a first run, follow the complete production walkthrough. There's also a Flow tutorial. Both are in Chinese. The Skill is free; video generation costs and model availability depend on the platform.
Landscape or portrait?
| Format | Good for | Composition |
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9:16 |
YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels | Vertical action, a central subject, and mobile-safe framing |
16:9 |
YouTube and landscape educational videos | Lateral movement, wider scenes, and side-by-side comparisons |
Use it for faceless explainers, history and business topics, personal growth, everyday stories, and product demos. English narration with bilingual subtitles added later also works for English-learning content, short dramas, and close-reading videos. Durations can be any multiple of ten seconds: 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, three minutes, and beyond.
- Keep character, prop, and narrator profiles consistent across the whole video. Choose any voice changes in the proposal first.
- If one clip's character, props, or voice drift, adjust and retest that clip rather than remaking everything.
- Improve the writing without inventing facts, statistics, or product claims.
- 2026-10-20: Made English the default homepage and added Turkish and Indonesian pages. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese remain available. Skill rules unchanged.
- 2026-10-20: Added Style 5, Historical Cartoon, with Japanese and Egyptian samples and the Japanese film in the hero preview. Thanks to @leksautomate for the style and prompt contribution.
- 2026-10-15: Refined the Chinese homepage, installation steps, and examples; added lighter previews and a Star History chart. Skill rules unchanged.
- 2026-10-14: Added Style 4, Cozy Storytelling, with train-station and café examples.
- 2026-10-13: Refined Style 1's character descriptions and current-pose constraints.
- 2026-10-12: Improved shared voice-consistency rules and added prehistoric and community examples.
Already installed? Homepage changes alone don't require a reinstall. Update the Skill if you want Style 5 or installed before the character and voice-rule changes. Detailed changelog (Chinese).
These styles are planned, not available yet:
- Mixed-media worlds — Exploring 2D stick figures in richer environments.
- Blackboard Explainer — Lessons and talks with blackboard interaction.
- Style 6: Illustrated Storybook — Fairy tales, fables, and children's stories.
- Style 7: Graffiti Action — Fight scenes, short action films, and combos.
- Style 8: Two-Character Sitcom — Banter, everyday misunderstandings, and workplace twists.
- Style 9: Card-Game Adventure — Level-ups, monster battles, and game-like storytelling.
Suggest a style, share your work, or report a problem in Issues. For style requests, include a reference and a topic you'd like to try. For submissions, include the video, style used, and an author link so we can credit you.
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I'm Kaomei. I'll keep testing styles and sharing useful prompts, workflows, and the mistakes worth avoiding—all for free. Less time wrestling with tools, more time for the stories you actually want to tell.
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