Pivot is simple to use and kids love exploring the possibilities of making their own creative animated stories. So, I’m looking for a simple video editing tool so we can see if they can manage that.ĭownload Pivot Stick Figure Animator here. Assignment: Pivot Stick Figure Animator is a free fun program to teach animation basics. The reason for this is my boys now want to include sound effects. The program saves the files as animated gifs – which is delightfully old school – but I have been experimenting with possible conversion tools and you can get some slightly pixilated, but decent avi files out of it. Extending aspects: There is an extension area that allows you to design your own “stick figures” and import them into your animation.My eldest worked out by increasing the size of an animation over many frames makes it look like it grows. A range of simple functions: Single click functions that allow a change of size and color which add to the animation pleasure.This is important, especially for kids in the early primary years.
Speed: The nature of the one click frame creation combined with the click and drag animation style means results can be achieved quickly.Simple Click and Drag animation: The click and drag style of animation that leaves a “shadow” of the previous position of the arm, leg, whatever until you click.After a few days they had realized they could create their own stick figures to animate and had begun to use the simple drawing tool to save their own stick figure props like beds, cannons and barbells. Backgrounds can be inserted into the frames but each frame cannot have its individual background.Despite my own beliefs in the capacity of children and their ability to do things that we never acknowledge (so never see them do), I was amazed at the speed at which they picked up the basic concepts using Pivot. You can modify each Pivot Animator frame in any way you want, by changing the stick-man, adding color, or changing the size. Pivot supports onion skinning, so drawing the next frame on the basis of the previous one is easier. You can add up to 256 stick figures in each frame.Īs in all animation tools, the job is to create Frames where each frame differs from the previous in a way that resembles movement. Color and scale are the other things which can be changed with just a click. In the Stick Figure Builder, you can change the thickness and length of the segments.
Using the handles, the segments can be moved to the positions desired. Stick figures are easily created by adding line segments for the body parts and a circle for the head. You can create one from scratch using the Stick Figure Builder. It opens with a default stick-man figure.
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