How to Make free Animations - Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Step 4 The Basics

Now Lets talk about the basics of making an animation.

Make a drawing, Change the frame, make another drawing, Rinse and Repeat

See an example:

When you download pivot, it comes with some demo animations to use as reference. Follow these instructions on how to open the walking demo:'

• Open up pivot.
• Click on the files tab and select "Open Animation"
• Select the one that says "walking"
• The pictures on this step are taken from the walking demo. Not made by me. The demo.

To make Your own walking animation:

Open up Pivot.

Since the stickman is already there, simply click next frame. and move the stickman to any position.

First thing you'll see is a gray figure behind the stickman. This is a very neat and probably the most important feature in Pivot that shows the position of the figure in the previous frame. Its very useful if you forget what hes supposed to do now.

In this step I'm gonna cover the most fundamental and probably most asked question of Pivot animation : Walking

Try this:

• Observe each ilustration.
• Make each illustration in 2 frames. That is, draw each picture and click next frame 3 times before making the other picture.
• When you're done click play
• You just made a walking animation!

The Best Advice I can Give You when it comes to animating: If you're stuck n something, stand up and re-enact it a couple of times. If you're stuck on walking, try standing up and walking around, so you can better understand how it works.

Save a copy of this project as a Pivot file by clicking file>Save animation. Call it walking. Trust me it WILL be useful in the future

Comments

[killer2510541]

how do you save it

[Dafroft]

fo to file then save animation

[19Lewiboi97]

Thanks, I Sucked At Pivot Before I Seen This. But I'm Now Uploading Animations On Youtube. Thanks!

[Keith-Kid]

Glad to hear it!