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Offline Bolt

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Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« on: October 06, 2008, 07:58:23 am »
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=14246.0

A long time ago the Pivot V3 BETA was posted here and I thought I might keep you up to date.

http://www.darkdemon.org/downloads/PivotHotkeys.zip
This is a hotkeys version of Pivot V2. V2 is the more commonly used version of Pivot because of it's stability, compared to V3. However here's a link to V3 with hotkeys as well:
http://www.darkdemon.org/downloads/PivotHotkeysV3.zip

In the hotkeys version you can use some shortcut keys to make things easier and faster, for example, pressing space presses the next frame button. I thing there's a whole list of the commands in the zip file.

(Note: This is simply a modified version of Pivot by a few of my fellow staff members of DarkDemon.org, the creator of Pivot had no affiliation with the modification. Credit to the hotkeys modification goes to DarkDemon and Toastmaster of the DarkDemon.org Forums)

Here are a few of my animations, I've been Pivoting for almost 3 years now so I'm pretty decent at it now :]

This is my most famous animation that I'm known for, Blawb:


And here's Arro, one I made very recently:


http://www.darkdemon.org/bolt/animations/ - For more of my stuff.

Offline Decaying Soldat

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2008, 10:31:49 am »
You're right, these are really decent animations! No, awsome, actually! Make more, maybe soldat-related ones.

Offline ~Niko~

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2008, 11:04:04 am »
they rule, I was never able to do anything with pivot :D

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2008, 11:09:56 am »
Nicely animated, I use the program but I just can't time the frames right.
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Offline Kagesha

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2008, 07:25:03 pm »
Damnit Bolt I knew you were good at pivot when I saw that DD.org tag of yours in soldat >_>. I remember i think it was Lord Frunkamunch or Laser Guy I think, did some really good pivot animations. I also had my fair share of pivot animating although they weren't amazing I wasn't as consistent, so i quit ^^.

Offline Lord Frunkamunch

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2008, 08:53:58 pm »
Oh, you're THAT bolt. I always liked that blawb thing at DD.

I'm going to have to check out v2, the novelty of easytoon's ease with special effects has worn off. At least I got an avatar out of it  :|
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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2008, 09:58:41 pm »
I never was too great at Easytoon, however here's my best with it:



Offline Decaying Soldat

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2008, 10:25:19 am »
Very good animations indeed, but mind posting anything Soldat-related? I mean, no problem posting non-related stuff, but better have something Soldat-related in this thread, after all, it's the Soldat Fan Art Forums.

Offline SDFilm

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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2008, 07:00:28 am »
While it would be nice for this place to become an animator's heaven that will rival Newgrounds, this is indeed Soldat Fan Art'n'Movies. What Soldat-ish plans do you have for this animator program?
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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2008, 08:50:29 pm »
I think he was just posting it here in case any of us wanted the new version, which makes sense; this being the most art-like subforum.

'Sides, who cares whether they're Soldat related or not? If the only reason you care about the rules is because they're there, then you're not getting much out of them.
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Re: Pivot Stick Figure Animator
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2008, 09:17:50 pm »
I think he was just posting it here in case any of us wanted the new version, which makes sense; this being the most art-like subforum.

True. I was getting werey of this being used as shallow advertising; but I suppose there's no harm in that since this program can help people make their own animations.

Plus, things like non-soldat-specific art tutorials/concept-art are welcome here too. Since it'll be kinda stupid for people to not be allowed to post their own art tips just because they don't have Soldat-men in them. If it helps the community, I'm all for it.
« Last Edit: October 09, 2008, 03:24:03 pm by SDFilm »

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