>be a teenager
>make a short, yet creative animation on early youtube just for fun
>it gets really popular especially for the time
>make a couple of sequels in the years following
>fast forward to present day
>have several animators and artists working on new episodes, sell merch, basically what you'd expect from a modern indie animator
>still able to keep a consistently great quality for the new episodes without any drama bullshit
What is this guy's secret? Where did Alan succeed where nearly everyone else failed?
I guess he keeps to himself
hes a stickman animator, just like Dojo he will make the stickmen fight for the current or future generations or die trying. Madness Combat is still alive so Stickmen must also stay alive
Stickman have been around since the beginning when the cavemen drew the first stickman and they will surely be here when humanity disappears.
he gives everyone such personality
Annoying Orange had characters with personality, yet it still failed.
>Annoying Orange had characters with personality
What?
it turns out you can do a lot when you keep to yourself, let the characters you make be expressive and have cool fight scenes
who would have thought?
You now remember Xiao Xiao. Whatever happened to that?
>Xiao Xiao
Who?
Don't make me feel so old.
sorry anon, most newbies have never been to stickpage.
I've been to stickpage plenty but I don't remember checking out Xiao Xiao
>I've been to stickpage plenty but I don't remember checking out Xiao Xiao
Me too.
>stickpage
>Flash is no longer supported
🙁
Bluemaxima's Flashpoint. Look it up.
>stickpage
He tried to sue Nike over the use of a black stick figure in one of their commercials, won I think before getting told to frick off and losing right afterwards
I remember reading on how the Chinese are israelites on steriods and I'm seeing why that is
>over the use of a black stick figure in one of their commercials
Isn't it a common symbol with no Trademark?
Yea, no idea why Zhu thought he could get away with that but it was the early internet where few people could make a name for themselves and Zhu was the stick figure animator guy at the time so that's probably why he tried to sue
>What is this guy's secret?
persistence + effort eventually gave him results
the guys made several animations before making animation vs animator
If you keep making animations like he did you're bound to eventually make a good one, then it's just a matter of making "good animation episode 2" and so on
he was lucky to retain the rights to the original animator vs animation video though, if he hadn't been warned he probably would have sold the rights for $100 or something
his secret
>dont be gay
>dont be a furry
>dont be a moron
>dont be a pedophile
>make good animations
Truth
Stick animations usually dont have voice actors so its 100% visual aside from text. its truly the purest form of storytelling bros