Multimedia - Pivot
Pivot is free product that I am using to introduce Animation and Multimedia to some of my students. Pivot is the creation of Peter Bone and is a simple, easy to use and fun product.
Pivot has a range of pre-made figures with different “Pivot” points on the limbs, so to animate you figure you simply move the limb into the required position and click “next frame” to add another frame. Once completed, with multiple figures, backgrounds etc, you can then export it as animated GIF.
For me, I use this tool to teach students about framerate, resolution, continuity of motion within the animated character. I also use it for simple story boarding process to. Once the students have storyboarded a animation, I can then have them quickly do a stick figure rough cut. Importing the GIF into movie maker allows them to overlay voices, music etc.
You can get Pivot by going to Peter’s Yahoo page or downloading from this URL - http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html.
Interesting: When I gave this to my years 10 to use (its a big class) only 3 had not used this before.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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