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″ /]

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″ /]

New Animation Software

I’m afraid since we upgraded the work stations to Windows 7 (64bit), we have found Stykz a bit unreliable with some classes.  We have therefore moved on to the beta 4 edition of Pivot Animator. Pivot is a great piece of software that has a very similar interface to stykz, you should find it no problem to use at all. It is free software and I have put a

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