During my animating in pivot I did proceed over to Macromedia Flash (Adobe Flash). I learned allot of my skills the same way I did in pivot. Practice and practice while learning new techniques. There are mounds of work that I was inspired by and could list it all day. Here is a list of a few animations I made in flash.
Playing Around In flash.
Some of these will be pivot and some flash. But was like a basic intro to the program.
First Feature flash. War
A war animation i made for a final project in My A-Level B-tec course in Design.
Kick.
Small animation made in my own time while at college
More recent flash work has been made but i will showcase that in my next update for the the first project of my Foundation Degree. :)
Also some video editing i did to get the hang of video editing software and sound/music syncnorizing.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a great application that allows you to create stick figure animations that range from the simple to impressive - with a little time and patience. Working on the normal basics of stick figure animation, create individual frames of action and then view them in sequence, producing the animation. Think of a story, design the frames and watch your work ofart in action! Of course, you can modify each Pivot Stickfigure Animator frame in any way you want, using some of the pre-set characters, creating your own, adding color and changing the background with your own creations. Once you are happy with the animation, hit play to see how it's turned out. You can view the frames in miniature, editing, moving or erasing them as necessary. Once finished, you can save the Pivot Stickfigure Animation as a .GIF file. There aren't many configuration options apart from ones relating to the stick figures themselves, but I didn't notice anything I would really like to change. Creating a cool animation takes time and patience, but the process is fun and challenging. Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a winner all around!
I then went on to use this for many years and thrived on becoming better and better. With the help from different communities and forums such as www.darkdemon.org i learned new techniques and skills as-well as sharing my own.
Through the years I created more and more projects and better aniamtions.
2005-2007
Heres a group of my first animations, these were create about a year after discovering pivot and as i got the grips of animating.
2007-2008
Another small group of my animation i like added into another compilation.
2008
Through the year i became less interested in the adolescent way of animating and wanted to peruse my animating skills into fairly more advanced software like flash, which i will talk about later. This was the reason in animating in pivot less and less. But i released that i could create better animation by animating less and spending more time on one animation in pivot. Obviously :P.
These were basically one animation for each main animating event at darkdemon,org which were my last two animations in pivot. :(
New to making blogs i am going to get straight to it and tell the stroy of my work. Being inspired by the stick animation games Xiao Xiao. PLaying these games i always thought of how these were made if if i was capable of making similar games are animations. I decided to research animating programs and software through websites and animating forums until i came across free animating software called 'Pivot Stick Figure Animator'.
