I have arranged them in chronological order to show the progression of Pivot from version 1 to 3. These animations were mainly made to test Pivot as I was developing it. These are almost all the Pivot animations I've ever made. Frames are created showing multiple 'onion skins'. The Ctrl key is used while dragging to change the length of the arm. The Alt key is used while dragging to rotate and scale the stickman. Three body part figures are joined together to form a stickman with different colours. This video demonstrates some features of Pivot 4. Pivot 4 - Joining figures and using Alt/Ctrl dragging Camera movement (pan, zoom, rotate) using muli-select This video demonstrates multi-selection in the upcoming Pivot 4. Changing the position of the orange handle Deleting a single segment or a whole branch Using the Ctrl key to more quickly change the segment thickness Changing the circle fill between white, solid and clear Some features of the figure builder in the upcoming Pivot v4. The sprites were then joined to create a fully moveable figure of me. The old handles were disabled using the static tool. When given an initial push, it will swing back and forth at a constant amplitude. This is a weight (or bob) on the end of a massless cord suspended from a pivot, without friction. This was done by adding new lines to create new handles and using the origin tool to set the origin at one of the new handles. Simple gravity pendulum The simple gravity pendulum is an idealized mathematical model of a pendulum. The handles were then repositioned so that they body parts pivot in the right place. I then loaded the body parts into Pivot as sprites. I cut out the body parts using the Gimp 'free selection' tool and pasted them into ms paint.

The animation was created starting with a photo (of me). Read the ReadMe.txt file in the program to see a list of new features and bug fixes.Īs this is a beta version, there may still be bugs that will be fixed in future versions. You can also view or download the first draft of the Pivot 4 help file. The installer can be downloaded from here Many thanks to Jadon Barnes for creating this video

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