Pivot Stickfigure Animation
Pivot is a great tool to learn the basic concepts of animation. Animation is the rapid display of images that creates an illusion of movement. Pivot allows you to easily create frame-by-frame animations. You can move the sections of the stick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. The results can be saved as an animated gif.
This “free” application must be downloaded and installed on a local computer. There are many sites that allow you to download Pivot – here is just one of them: Pivot Stickfigure Animator software at CNET. This software only runs on Microsoft Windows. If you are looking for a comparable product for the Apple Mac OS, try Stykz.
This “free” application must be downloaded and installed on a local computer. There are many sites that allow you to download Pivot – here is just one of them: Pivot Stickfigure Animator software at CNET. This software only runs on Microsoft Windows. If you are looking for a comparable product for the Apple Mac OS, try Stykz.
There are Pivot sites that allow you to download stickfigures for your animations. The Droidz site is very popular, but I don’t have a lot of experience with it. Parents need to determine if it is appopriate for their children to access this site and/or download stickfigures. Please note that students are NOT allowed to “download” anything on school computers, so there is no need to visit this site during school.
Examples
Grayson made this one in fourth grade
Pivot Football (Freestyle)
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Gymnastics
Stick Em Up
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How To
Here’s a Getting to Know tutorial tool for new users that you might find useful.
Basics Tutorial
How to Get Pivot Animations on YouTube
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You can find a lot of YouTube videos that describe how to use Pivot. Just search YouTube using the keywords “Pivot Animation Tutorial”. Here are a couple:
Tutorial on Running |