pivot-stickfigure-animator

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

I have had this program for quite some time and thought i would share it.
It is free ware so have fun with it.

http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.so ... com/images

Willy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:33 pm **(#2)**

Very Cool Looking Rod! I'll bookmark and take a look after these Fractal Craze passes over me

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

I was actually wondering if there was such a program, because there should be, for peeps who like to experiment movement animations.

It's cool to know there is such a program.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

Well M1GU3L05 was asking how to create better looking stick men and i thought of this program.Maybe he can get some better ideas using it.

M1GU3L05 · **Joined:** Mar 07, 2011 **Posts:** 206

i heard of that but its not for gimp is it?

Willy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:30 pm **(#6)**

Nope, seperate program in itself, but you can save as GIF which can then be loaded into GIMP for editing

M1GU3L05 · **Joined:** Mar 07, 2011 **Posts:** 206

oh then that sucks u can pretty much do anything with gimp

jakeyjoey · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2011 **Posts:** 105

Pivot is awesome!!! I made a short little thing, but how did you change the background?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

jakeyjoey wrote:

Pivot is awesome!!! I made a short little thing, but how did you change the background?

File/Load Background - find any JPG or BMP on your computer and it will work as a background setting.

BMP seems to work the best however.

SHOW SPOILER

Willy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:24 am **(#10)**

Nothing seems to accept PNG...

Anyone explain the reasoning?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

The PNG image format has been around since 1995
A lot of newer software supports PNG format.
Much of the older graphic software just hasn't been updated to except PNG.

Willy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:33 am **(#12)**

Vista doesn't even let you use PNG as desktop backgounds :lol

way to go Microsoft

And I figured this would be newer than 2000

mikethedj4 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:30 pm **(#13)**

I already knew about this program, never really liked it though

Amanda47 · **Joined:** Mar 08, 2011 **Posts:** 155

Well I think it's cute and clever and I've been messing a little with it. My first animation! His running off at the end cracks me up. He was supposed to walk off screen, but making stick people walk is hard :P

paynekj · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:40 am **(#15)**

Nice one.

Here's something to aspire to:

Video from : www.youtube.com

pogogogo · **Joined:** Apr 22, 2010 **Posts:** 123

Stickfigure in action. http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/ ... becker.swf

saulgoode · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:17 am **(#17)**

paynekj wrote:

Here's something to aspire to:

Or if you are really (really, really) ambitious:

Video from : www.youtube.com

Errol shared quite a bit of information about making the video on his weblog. Some this information would undoubtedly be useful for animating two-dimensional stick figures.

paynekj · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:12 am **(#18)**

saulgoode wrote:

paynekj wrote:

Here's something to aspire to:

Or if you are really (really, really) ambitious:

Errol shared quite a bit of information about making the video on his weblog. Some this information would undoubtedly be useful for animating two-dimensional stick figures.

Now that is inspiring. I have a few Stikfas characters so maybe I'll have a go:

Kevin

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14715 **Location:** USA

That is one bad little stickman dude. :lol

Saul are those rockem sockem robots?

Those are great - a little know thing people do not realize about this program is that you can add your own stick men.

- and cloth them.

ccbarr · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:32 am **(#20)**

I tried Pivot a few years ago. The thing I found fun about it was using it not only for animating human-like stick figures:

Person In Wheelchair

*notice my wheelchair person pops a wheelie (very small wheelie

)

Couple On Seesaw

But also for animating other items also:

Pendulum

Weight Making a Scale Unbalanced

Crawling Ant

I never got into it a lot, and the animations above are quite simple, but once I started making other animated objects, then it showed some neat possibilities in addition to making the animated stick figures.

Synfig would also be very capable of making such animations, but it would require more time, planning, and work. The neat thing about this program is you can get nearly instant results with minimal effort.