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If cave paintings are anything to go by, stick figures could be what man first learned to draw. They are so simple, we barely pay attention to them, and we move on to make our figures more fleshed out.

But the best thing about stick figures is that they are straight and simple. Even the most artistically inept guy could draw one. Well, a lot of people do draw stick figures.

From toilet door signs to Flash games, from cartoon strips to movie posters, stick figures are there where nothing else quite fits in. There's no doubt that stick figures are universal symbols. You just have to do a search on YouTube to see how virally popular they are.

If it's so simple then how do we make a few stick figure animations for ourselves? We can use it in a PowerPoint presentation, use it for education, or just do it for animated fun. We start out with an idea. Then we look at the free software available that can help us give it life.

Let's take a look at three free stick figure animation programs that can help us draw a story in straight lines.

Pivot Animator

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is the oft-quoted stick figure animation software when it comes to freewares. The Windows freeware is used to make animated stick figures which can be saved in the GIF format. Stick figure animations can be used in webpages or converted to videos.

The interface is very simple. It opens with a default stick-man figure. You can create one from scratch using the Stick Figure Builder. Stick figures are easily created by adding line segments for the body parts and a circle for the head. Line and circles can be toggled.

Using the handles, the segments can be moved to the positions desired. In the Stick Figure Builder, you can change the thickness and length of the segments. Color and scale are the other things which can be changed with just a click. You can add up to 256 stick figures in each frame.

As in all animation tools, the job is to create Frames where each frame differs from the previous in a way that resembles movement. Pivot supports onion skinning, so drawing the next frame on the basis of the previous one is easier.

You can modify each Pivot Animator frame in any way you want, by changing the stick-man, adding color, or changing the size. Backgrounds can be inserted into the frames but each frame cannot have its individual background.

Hit the Play button and set the speed to see how the animation turned out.

Stykz

Stykz is very similar to Pivot Stickfigure Animator apart from a few differences. The interface is as simple but the stick-men can be drawn in place as Stykz has done away with a separate editor and everything is done on the stage.

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is the oft-quoted stick figure animation software when it comes to freewares. The Windows freeware is used to make animated stick figures which can be saved in the GIF format. Stick figure animations can be used in webpages or converted to videos.

The interface is very simple. It opens with a default stick-man figure. You can create one from scratch using the Stick Figure Builder. Stick figures are easily created by adding line segments for the body parts and a circle for the head. Line and circles can be toggled.

Using the handles, the segments can be moved to the positions desired. In the Stick Figure Builder, you can change the thickness and length of the segments. Color and scale are the other things which can be changed with just a click. You can add up to 256 stick figures in each frame.

As in all animation tools, the job is to create Frames where each frame differs from the previous in a way that resembles movement. Pivot supports onion skinning, so drawing the next frame on the basis of the previous one is easier.

You can modify each Pivot Animator frame in any way you want, by changing the stick-man, adding color, or changing the size. Backgrounds can be inserted into the frames but each frame cannot have its individual background.

Hit the Play button and set the speed to see how the animation turned out.

Stykz

Stykz is very similar to Pivot Stickfigure Animator apart from a few differences. The interface is as simple but the stick-men can be drawn in place as Stykz has done away with a separate editor and everything is done on the stage.

Stykz and Pivot are nearly kissing cousins. You can import Pivot files into Stykz. Stykz gives more export options (GIF, PNG, transparent PNG, MOV) than Pivot. The one thing it lacks is the feature to add a graphic background.

Stykz lacks a help file but it has a pretty vibrant forum.

TISFAT

TISFAT (This Is Stick Figure Animation Theatre) a free stick figure animation tool that you don't need to install. It comes with a slew of tools, a timeline, and more options that make creating stick figure animations a more controlled process than the previous two freewares. For instance, the finished stick figure animations can be saved as GIF, BMP, Flash, and AVI movie files.

TISFAT (ver. 0.67) is a 1.2MB download and it runs on Windows and Linux or MacOS via WINE.

The interface may look more complicated at first glance, but it is usable by someone who does not have any animation experience. The software comes with a detailed help file. It also has a community of users.

TISFAT introduces a few enrichments which the previous two freewares did not have.

Timeline is the stage which holds every component you create and moves it through time to create the animation effect.

Layers are very much like transparent plastic sheets which can hold one object at a time. Layers can be manipulated to hide, reveal, or change the order in which objects are arranged.

Keyframes and Framesets are what the object is at one point of time in the animation. Framesets are a collection of keyframes.

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It is the combination of layers, keyframes, and framesets on the timeline that creates the animation.

TISFAT's tools can be used to create shapes, readymade stick figures, or curved lines to give more definition to the animation.

Added features onion skinning which helps you to see a faint ghost image of the previous frame so you can position the artwork for the next frame make it all the more easier. TISFAT also supports backgrounds and sound support is expected in the next version.

The three stick figure animation programs featured here are great for going through the basics of animation. Pivot and Stykz are dead simple, while TISFAT is a bit more feature laden.

Stick figures are great for quick animations. They can be learnt by kids, by teachers who have no previous experience in animation. Put in some more patience and you can make your stick figures dance to your tune.

Would you say it's a great way to kickstart your animation career?

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Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator and usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and spriteanimations, and save them in the animated GIF format for use on web pages and the AVI format (in Pivot Animator 3 and later).^[1]

Pivot provides a simple, easy to use interface with a few features. It uses fixed-length 'sticks' to ensure size consistency during animation.

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Development[edit]

History[edit]

First release[edit]

The first version of Pivot Animator had several software bugs. Stick figures were limited to one type of stick figure, the default stickpoop. Animations could be saved in the PIV (Pivot Project File) or exported as Animated .GIFs (Graphics Interchangeable Format). Users were given few options of image optimization, compression or resizing when saving their animation.^{[citation needed]} This was one of the first animation programs available on the computer.

Pivot 2.2[edit]

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The second major release of the Pivot Stickfigure Animator. This version implemented the 'Stick Figure Builder', which allowed users to create their own stick figure designs saved in the STK format. This allowed a much wider scope of animation choice for Pivot users. It also fixed a few minor bugs, added the buttons to the main interface to bring a stick figure in front or behind other figures, and could automatically check to make sure the user didn't lose any unsaved projects.^{[citation needed]}

Pivot 3.1 Beta[edit]

This release was sent intentionally to the Pivot AnimationMSN groups for testing but the Beta was leaked from various unofficial sources to the general public.^{[citation needed]} There was an improved interface, with new icons, a better default stickman with bolder arms and legs and a reorganization of the features. New features included the ability to import any image as a sprite to be moved around in the animation like a stick figure. Another added feature was the ability to have multiple backgrounds in an animation. When a user saves a .piv file, the frame rate is saved with it.

Pivot 4.1[edit]

Pivot 4.1 beta was released on January 2, 2013, with new features including.^[2]

• Figure opacity
• Extended canvas area
• Multi-select and edit figures
• Stretch segments using the Ctrl key
• Rotate/scale figures using the Alt key
• Image based figure and background selector
• Split a segment into 2 in the figure builder
• Copy and paste frames
• Improved Gif export options and quality
• Avi video export
• Join figures tool
• Png support for sprites and backgrounds
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Multiple languages and the ability to create your own translation
• Multiple frame onion skins (0-9)
• Undo / redo
• Image preview of Stk files when loading figures

Pivot Animator 4.1.10 was released as the 'stable' version of 4.1 and is still the latest non-beta version so far (as of October 2015).

Pivot 4.2 was announced on December 23, 2014 followed by a beta release on January 1, 2015.^[3]New features include copying and pasting selected stick figures and sprites, a transparent figure builder window,^[4] and the ability to export images in the Scalable Vector Graphics format.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Adrien-Luc Sanders. 'Animation Software Review: Pivot Stickfigure Animator'. About Technology. about.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
2. ^'Pivot Downloads'. Pivot Animator. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
3. ^'Pivot Official Website'. Pivot Animator. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
4. ^'Pivot Downloads'. Pivot Animator. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

External links[edit]

• Pivot Animation Forum
• TheDarkDemon Forum (once recognized as the largest pivot forum, currently the most decrepit)

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