The "fighting stick men" genre has gotten quite popular with YouTube videos, and while it might seem amateurish, the simplicity of stick figures provide a great exercise in character animation. Using stick figures one can work quicker than animating a more realistic figure, but still get a great sense for timing and human dynamics. This course is broken down into separate parts for designing and rigging the basic stick man, walking and running, inverse kinematics, animating a fight scene, and finally adding sounds.