Stickman Low-poly 3D model

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A stick figure is a straightforward drawing of a person or animal, consisting of minimal lines, curves, and dots. The head in a stick figure is often depicted as a circle, occasionally enhanced by details such as eyes, mouth, or roughed-out hair. Typically, arms, legs, and torso are represented by straight lines. While details like hands, feet, and a neck might be included or omitted, simpler stick figures often display unclear emotional expressions or irregularly sized limbs. Graffiti featuring stick figures have been discovered throughout history, frequently etched with a sharp object on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete walls. Stick figures are commonly employed in film storyboarding sketches. The earliest roots of the stick figure date back to prehistoric art. Later, tens of thousands of years passed before writing systems emerged that used images for words or morphemes—e.g., logographies like Egyptian and Chinese—which started simplifying people and other objects into linguistic symbols. A modern history exists which can be linked in part to Rudolf Modley's extension of figure usage from Isotype for commercial purposes. The first international use of stick figures occurred during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Pictograms developed by Japanese designers Masaru Katzumie and Yoshiro Yamashita served as the foundation for future pictograms. In 1972, Otl Aicher created the round-ended, geometric grid-based stick figures utilized on signage, printed materials, and television for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Drawing from these and other similar symbol sets used at the time, in 1974 and 1979 AIGA (commissioned by the U.S. Department of Transportation) developed the DOT pictograms—50 public domain symbols for use at transportation hubs, large events, and contexts where people speak many different languages. These pictograms, or variations derived from them, are widely used throughout much of the world today. London-based graffiti artist Stik incorporates stick figures in his work. Comics like The Order of the Stick, Nothing But Stick Figures, and xkcd portray characters using a stick figure style. Stick figures often feature in animations produced with Adobe Flash software. These figures can be drawn quickly and animated faster than full drawings. Online cartoon series such as Xiao Xiao have been created using this software. Many other stick figure animation suites exist, enabling the user to create an animation frame by frame or extrapolate intermediate frames between a start and endpoint. Animations can be exported in various formats and shared online. Software such as Pivot Stickfigure Animator is used for stick figure animations. Italians animated TV series La Linea depicts a figure outlined by lines, thus not qualifying it as a real stick figure.