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rotation How To Use Pivot hi there, I noticed on pivot that when you press edit,you can draw stuff.I was making a shooting animation project for schoolwork,and I obviously had a man holding a gin,the gun pointing at a 45 degrees angle downwards.I wanted to rotate the bullet bang thing I drew,to make it look like its coming out of the gun.How do I do this?is it possible? thanks tom ...
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How To Use Pivot - The stickfig animation maker

Arttymis
Jun 17 2005, 06:29 PM
Hey Guys and Gals I wanted to show everyone Pivot.
What is pivot you may be asking well its a stickfig animation maker . Not many have heard of it so ill instruct you on how to use it and where to get it.

Where to get Pivot
You can get pivot here:
Pivot
Now download it and install it.

Now that you have it installed it load it and you'll see a screen like the one below:


Now what you may be asking. You see the little red circles click on one and drag it to the right. It moves amazingly. Now click Next Fram and now your screen should look sort of like this:


Do that but this time to the left and click next frame. Do that over and over and then click play to see your animation.
Here is mine i made:

Enjoy and have fun and catch my next tutorial for pivot how to make your own characters in it.

Ok for some help I made a video to show you some basics to it:
Click here to watch help48

 

 

 


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truromeo
Jan 11 2006, 12:15 AM
QUOTE(Nate @ Jun 17 2005, 06:29 PM)
Hey Guys and Gals I wanted to show everyone Pivot.
What is pivot you may be asking well its a stickfig animation maker . Not many have heard of it so ill instruct you on how to use it and where to get it.

Where to get Pivot
You can get pivot here:
Pivot
Now download it and install it.

Now that you have it installed it load it and you'll see a screen like the one below:
user posted image

Now what you may be asking. You see the little red circles click on one and drag it to the right. It moves amazingly. Now click Next Fram and now your screen should look sort of like this:
user posted image

Do that but this time to the left and click next frame. Do that over and over and then click play to see your animation.
Here is mine i made:
user posted image
Enjoy and have fun and catch my next tutorial for pivot how to make your own characters in it.

Ok for some help I made a video to show you some basics to it:
Click here to watch help48
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I have not tried mosaics yet but would guess it would be easier to use Picture
Window (PW) Pro 2.5 than either Photoshop 4 or 5. Back in the old days when I was
using Photoshop 2.5 (no layers) for tricolor stacking of images, it was quite
difficult to move and then rotate images to match them up. With Picture Window it
is much easier as the movement and rotation is done automatically. Also the
multipoint registration should help in aligning images with curved fields and other
optical aberrations. Also PW is far cheaper and easier to use when registering
images than any of the Photoshop versions.
Regarding your question, Photoshop 4 has no central pivot point (that I can
see) in FREE TRANSFORM that you can move. It seems to merely pivot at the center of
the image. However, Photoshop 5 does have a moveable pivot point in FREE TRANSFORM
as the article indicates. As is typical with Photoshop they have also changed the
location of FREE TRANSFORM. In order to get there you now click on a selection tool
(e.g. use a Marquee), then EDIT and then FREE TRANSFORM. You will see in the center
of the free transform box a central dark circle with small cross hairs. This is the
pivot point which can easily be repositioned with your mouse before you rotate.

 

 

 


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Burgin
Mar 5 2006, 07:43 AM
Very nice tutorial there m8, i'm sure it'd help anyone with animation. Ive tried that Pivot program before and its very good smile.gif Im going to try and get an animation up and running soon so you can see it.
Thanks,
Burgin!

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Kitsune Illusions
Dec 8 2006, 11:07 PM
What an awesome program! And a good tutorial aswell. Thanks for posting this!

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Flawless
Jan 6 2007, 01:51 AM
o cool. that program looks very cool and fun while bored...though i am not bored with hockey and counter stike source ohmy.gif lol.

Also snow skating not boarding snow skating like a skateboard but with no wheels rubber grip tape and smooth plastic bottom really fun but no snow all Christmas break im so pissed off.

Well atleast I got this free web hosting to look forward to. Is it a sub domain like www.yourname.astahost.com?

I'm going for the 5GB(5000MB hosting 30 credits woof lol)

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04dsmith86
Jan 15 2007, 06:54 PM
Nice. I had no idea there was such a program. Now I have yet another way to waste away my Sundays on my computer! Thanks for sharing.

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Jimmy89
Mar 5 2007, 12:14 PM
ive done a similar thing in flash. These simple things are so much fun to make! i once had to make a whole stick animation, its hard work (contrary to popular belief) but its worth it when you play it!

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kentweather
Mar 5 2007, 07:40 PM
looks cool will give it a try later

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Arkane
Mar 28 2007, 03:11 AM

thats what I got

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Downlinker
Jun 30 2007, 08:47 PM
Great! Now i understand more about this program. i'we downloaded it yesterday, but i hawent used it yet. Hawe someone seen stick figues in crack on youtube? those movies are made with this program!

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iGuest
Sep 20 2009, 04:14 PM
rotation
How To Use Pivot

hi there,

I noticed on pivot that when you press edit,you can draw stuff.I was making a shooting animation project for schoolwork,and I obviously had a man holding a gin,the gun pointing at a 45 degrees angle downwards.I wanted to rotate the bullet bang thing I drew,to make it look like its coming out of the gun.How do I do this?is it possible?

thanks

tom


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iGuest
Apr 1 2009, 10:49 PM
pivot rules!!!!!
How To Use Pivot

I like pivot but only on verson 3 beta,its heaps better becuse you can animate pictures and move them around you can download v3 here:  Pivot v3

-reply by michael parry


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iGuest
Feb 11 2009, 08:58 PM

Pivot is an awesome program and go on you tube and check out PivotMasterDX channel, he's really good at pivot! and there is another pivot version , beta 3.0 , look up on google "filefront pivot" you can put pictures and animate them =)

Keywords: pivot tutorial

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iGuest
Nov 21 2008, 08:43 PM
saving gif
How To Use Pivot

When I try to save it as a gif it works until the last minute and then it says program erroe or something code 87 and that the parameter is wrong---I don't know what a parameter is! and I wonder if its cuz the fim is too long if it is then I have know idea how to save it! Please help I really want to make it a proper movie! 
 
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Running With Scissors
Nov 6 2008, 09:03 PM
QUOTE(iGuest-anthony @ Nov 5 2008, 01:59 AM) *
How do you make animals on it I know you can I just saw some other animatios and they had animals.


If you click Load Figure Type a list should pop up and you can pick horses and elephants. After you do that the next time you can just click the drop down arrow above the add figure button. Then when it is on the figure you want click add figure.

To the orginal poster I don't know if I should thank you for showing me the link to were to download this amazing product or be mad at you for the hours I wasted playing around with it lol. I love this thing a lot. Before this I would use flash to make this stuff but Pivot makes it so much easier. I made a short video that was over a minute long. For one of these things to be that long it takes a lot of slides and a whole bunch of time. This thing is a great time waster but not so great when you have school work to be doing lol. I wanted to post my video here but when I uploaded it to photobucket it over took about the first five seconds.
If anyone can tell me how to post a minute long pivot video on a forum that would be great so I can show the people on my forums and maybe post it here if you guys wanted to see it.

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