How To Use Pivot

Pivot is an awesome program created by Peter Bone that allows you to create a simple animation. This page explains how to use it. We recommend using Pivot 3 Beta while reading this.

Starting Out
When you open Pivot,there will be a Stickman inside a white square. If you have already created an animation,click on File and then Open Animation, browse for the file and you can continue on it.

Now, back to the Stickman and the white square. If you're using Pivot 3 Beta it will look like this:



Do you see those orange dots? Those are the parts of the stick that you can move. Now,you see the yellow dot at his waste? That is the base of the stickman that you can move to change the position of the stickman.

By dragging the yellow dot down and moving the orange dot at the tip of the left arm,it will now look like this:



Yay! We have created the first frame. Now click on the Next Frame button on the panel on the left. A similar but smaller scale frame of your work on the top panel.

Now let's ontinue on our animation. You can move the animation again like in Step 1. Don't forget to click on Next Frame!

On my animation I will raise his left arm again slightly. Now click on the Play Button on the right panel. The stickman should be moving by now. Click on Stop to stop the animation and continue working on it.

Continue doing Step 1,move the stickman,click on Next Frame then after making a few more frames,click on Play to move the stickman then click on Stop.

Want to learn more? Continue reading.

Pivot Parts


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