Stick Figure Recorder

Drawing frame-by-frame animation takes serious patience—moving your own body, however, takes seconds.

Stick Figure Recorder is a browser tool that uses real-time pose estimation (PoseNet) to track your movements via webcam, instantly turning your body into an animated stick figure you can record and export.

Animating with Your Own Body

No motion capture suits, sensors, or keyframe tinkering required. Just open the page and move:

• Real-Time Skeleton Tracking: Tracks key body joints directly through the webcam stream, mapping head, torso, and limb movement into a fluid stick figure.
• Instant Export: Download your recorded takes right away as animated GIFs or vector motion data, ready to drop into pitch decks, web projects, or memes.
• Client-Side & Private: All computer vision inference runs entirely on-device inside your browser, meaning video streams never leave your machine.

An Unexpectedly Popular Gallery

The tool includes a built-in gallery where users can publish and share their creations. For reasons beyond me, it gained unexpected traction, quickly filling up with an eclectic variety of user-submitted stick figure performances.

An experiment in treating the human body as an intuitive input device for lightweight, browser-based motion capture.