Stick Figure Death Theatre

Stick Figure Death Theatre is an animation showcase website, created by owner Matt Calvert in 1996. As the name suggests, this site is home to stick figure movies of characters (usually) meeting their doom. Movies were originally rejected if they had stick figures and no death, but this has been widended to include anything with stick figures. Mr. Calvert has this to say of its origins:

"In 1996, I was working for an ISP in California and was just starting to learn web design. One of the things I wanted to learn was how to make animated GIFs. Thinking back to my days in high school and college, I remembered doodling in the margins of my notes. One of the things I would doodle were stick figures getting hit by a car, getting their heads chopped off, etc. So, I decided to create these as animated GIFs.
I made three short movies and, since I didn't want my work to go to waste, I created a sub-site on my then personal site and called it Stick Figure Death Theatre. Over time, the site got good word of mouth and it grew and grew over time to the juggernaut you now see before you."

SFDT has received notice in Wired, Maxim and Details magazine. Initially, users could submit animated GIFs only, but this was eventually opened up to allow Flash animations as well. GIFs eventually fell by the wayside and Flash movies are now the primary submission file-type.

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