vs. Animation V" (December 5, 2020). Finally, on January 12, 2021, all instances of Flash player ceased operation, all Flash media refused to play, and Adobe Flash was officially retired. Due to the conservation efforts of Project Flashpoint, and because of big hosting platforms like Newgrounds and Kongregate developing their own workarounds, the Flash community, and, with it, the stick figure animation subgenre, were preserved from extinction. Creators from that point onward found alternatives for the now defunct software, such as Pivot and Flash's official successor, Adobe Animate. Unicode As of Unicode version 13.0, there are five stick figure characters in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block. These are in the codepoints U+1FBC5 to U+1FBC9. OpenMoji supports the five characters along with joining character sequences to give the other figures a dress. For example, the sequence , , (🯆‍👗). See also 1903 — In Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Dancing Men, Sherlock Holmes solves the puzzle of a mysterious sequence of stick figures. 1908 — Emile Cohl's pioneer animated film Fantasmagorie features a stick figure as its main character. References External links Gerd Arntz and the Woodcut Origins of the Stick Figure The 50 AIGA symbols BlueMaxima's Flashpoint (Flash Conservation Project) Drawing Animation techniques Articles containing video clips