How to Make free Animations - Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Step 2 Get Familiarized with the Program

An icon saying "Pivot Stickfigure animator" will probably appear in your desktop. If not, look for it in the start menu.

Open up the program

First, Let's get familiarized with the program.

The first thing that you'll notice is that theres a stickman in a Large White Space. This Large space is the canvas, where you will put your animation.

On the top of the page, theres a Long Empty Space, this is where each frame will go in.

On the left, you'll see some buttons: ( In descending order)

* Play - When pressed, will preview how the animation is coming along.
* Stop - When pressed, will stop playing the preview and go to your current point in the animation
* Repeat - If checked, will keep playing the preview until you hit stop, If not checkes, the preview will only play one time

* Add Figure - This is where you can insert a new figure. When you open up the program, it will say stickman. This is because the stickman is the default Figure. If You've created new figures, you can insert them by choosing the name of the figure and clicking "Add Figure"

Current Figure - Options for the selected figure in that particular frame

• Delete - Will erase the selected figure from the frame
• Center - Will move the selected figure to the center of the canvas
• Colour - With this button, you can change the color of the selected figure
• Front -
• Edit - WIth this button, you can edit and alter the figure. You can add or remove segments. You can also delete the whole figure and create a new one
• Flip - Will move the figure to the opposite position of the one its currently on
• Size - Determines the size of the figure in each frame
• Back -

* Next Frame - Saves the current picture as a frame and moves on to the next one

In the Tabs:

File:

• Open animation - Opens a saved file for editing. Can only import files made in Pivot
• Save animation - Save the current animation as a Pivot file for editing, or as a GIF image so you can put it on other places. Can also save as a bitmap.
• Load Background - Load an image or drawing made with Pivot, as a background Image. Different Backgrounds can be used in different frames.
• Clear Background - Erase the background from the selected frame.
• Load figure type - Upload a figure from another user or Internet site.
• Create Figure Type - Create a new figure. More about this in step

Comments

[jwest17]

Where do i download it, i cant find anything. i tried clicking the, download the PDF, button, but all it is is a whole bunch of pics.

[nike#1]

i stil dont get it :9

[Lili101]

hi i love pivot i play it at uni im 25

[The Jamalam]

typo, in the first set of bullets, you have said gifures instead of figures

[Keith-Kid]

Thank you!

[The Jamalam]

you haven't changed it lol...

[Keith-Kid]

hehe...? Sorry.......done.