Advanced pivot – backgrounds and sprites

A few of you are working on swimming for your commonwealth animation. There have been a few requests for realistic water effects. In these tutorials we look at how we can use Pivot’s backgrounds and sprites to achieve the effect we want. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/R7RdY8XcLDs” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3KhAyC8Pl0A” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Joining objects together in Pivot

How do we make it look like one figure in pivot is holding an object? [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/uHk2DzeOd9Y” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Creating a new figure type in Pivot

Today we created an animation of a dog. We made use of some of the principals of Animation to make the animation more believable. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/xqGL1ZLk3n8″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/H7XAy3DBrX4″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/k4lYxxS7w8g” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Animation – Getting started with Pivot

Getting Started [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/sUgnPNznYPw” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Adding a new figure [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/k0p8IUqjvj8″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]

Introduction to Animation

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Animation Posts

I’m not quite sure what happened to the posts from this section. I will send them out again.

Finance – What is money?

Well today we started the finance topic and discussed names for money as well as our attitudes to money. All the videos for this part of the course can be found on this youtube playlist. Here are the names we used for money, there are a lot more names that we use for money.

S1 Fireworks

First of all let me apologise for not updating this sooner, I stopped using it when I found out that Glow was changing. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/VWxuFH-wuFo” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Right today in class we started making a fireworks display using PowerPoint. I have created a little video that let you see how to do it.