Dude completely forgets StickDeath.com which came before all of this…
The woke crowd of today would have gotten stickdeath.com banned from the internet were it made today :)
When stick figures fought
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#62Ah man, these are some awesome memories! Hot damn I liked these when I was a kid! I was first introduced to them on a LAN party. We would pass these kinds of things to eachother between CS 1.5 matches (VLC can play any file format!) I remember towards the end of my lan party going days, these sick fights were finally outdone by the much more advanced Killer Bean. Just a bean, trying to get some sleep. Those were the…
Killer Bean! That's exactly where my mind went as well.
I'm so happy people still remember it. We used to watch 2.1 at every LAN, too.
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#63I assumed this was going to be about Stick Death but I was mistaken! I had never heard of XiaoXiao before this article...
Stick Death was online when I first starting used the WWW, I was obsessed with it! It was just incredibly to me that someone could easily make these animations and get them online for everyone to see! I believe this around the same time as 2advanced and the "Flash intro" craze...
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#64I owe my technology career to Flash. Still find it incredibly sad that Adobe and Steve Jobs were able to destroy it together. This tool was able to draw in creative, previously non-technical people and provide a gradual ramp of complexity that we could navigate. Nothing has come close since.
I remember the white MacBook Core 2 Duo with 100% CPU, fans maxed out while watching YouTube 720p. This was months before the iPhone announcement. I can see why they killed it.
Because it was a security nightmare
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#65I used to make animations with https://pivotanimator.net/ a lot as a kid, trying to make fight scenes like these. A sort of related thing is ToriBash, which is kind of a multiplayer 3D animation game where you fight each other by making decisions on which muscles to contract at each time interval. Loved this stuff so much. I miss my summers off from school, where I would never think of a day gone as time "spent".
Oooh, I really liked ToriBash! I didn't play for very long for whatever reason, but I did think it was a creative and fun game.
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#67I remembered Alan Becker ( https://youtube.com/@alanbecker ) who creates stories with an array of his stick figure characters. Sometimes, they interact with real world too!
Yes when I saw stick figures mentioned on HN I immediately thought of his "Animator vs Animation" [1] (to which I've just rediscovered the title!) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npTC6b5-yvM
Yeah, I discovered the channel through this series as well.
"Animation vs Physics"[1] was video which got started me with the channel. The presentation is beautiful there!
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#68That's so cool. I watched all of his work, and was in the animation scene, and I didn't even realize at the time, the creator is Chinese! I learned how to use Flash, dabbled into scripts, learned to do very basic stuff on 3DSMax, as a ~10 year old little shit, and all of that most likely wouldn't have happened, if it wasn't for his work -- it's safe to say that my life was dramatically impacted by him. Thanks for sharing this, OP!
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#69Ah, XiaoXiao. Under the amazingly named `E:\Storage\Old\Fun\old\XiaoXiao` I have fight (xiaoxiao1).avi, XiaoXiao_City_Plaza.swf, and xiaoxiao2.swf - xiaoxiao9.swf
I'm jealous. My files from those days did not survive; too many hard drive failures and lost or destroyed CDs.
This is particularly sad to me because I dabbled in Flash animation too back then, since I was in art school at the time. None of my creations survived. Some were even acceptable work.
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#70Oh man I knew exactly what it was when I read the title. Xiao Xiao (and Madness) was the best. Watched them over and over again with friends on my family dell. What a great memory.