Pivot Animator Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Making 2d Simple Animations?

  I hope I'll catch onto someone's childhood memories but I used to mess around with Pivot animator. IIRC I'd make a fight scene, export it as a gif and import it into Windows Movie Maker. Last update it had was in January 2023. For simple animations it should work out. https://pivotanimator.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Is there a place I can make pixel art cutscenes at?

  Check this out: https://pivotanimator.net/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Anyone remember desktop destroyer spent a lot of time playing with this as a kid

  This, Pivot and Powder were what we used to play in high school back in 2010-2015 along with the usual cool math games, adrenaline games, etc. Source: over 1 year ago

• Animation software for a beginner?

  If you're still looking for the simplest possible software, check out Pivot Animator. It's old, but you can find some pretty impressive stuff made with it. Source: over 1 year ago

• HOW JAMESSTONKED LEARNED TO ANIMATE

  Phase2: after watching pivot animations for a while I went to pivotanimator.net and downloaded pivot animator 5 then I messed around with it I learned as I did I did experiments the tutorials I watched didnt help a lot so I just clicked random buttons and do random stuff in pivot animator till I know what they do it wasnt hard either it was easy then I learned video editor so I can add more life to my animations... Source: over 1 year ago

• Where to get started making stick figure animations?

  I'm not sure whether you're referencing stop motion or digital animation- stop motion will require cameras and lighting and some $$. However, if you're talking about getting into digital forms of stick figure animation, I'd recommend checking out pivot (https://pivotanimator.net/). It's a really cool basic, free, simple animation program for stick figures. It's very intuitive and will let you discover if you enjoy... Source: almost 2 years ago

• My daughter is 10 and she painstakingly makes these animations almost frame by frame. She enjoys making them despite having almost no viewers. It's not much but it's honest work.

  I know I sound really condescending, but at 10 I was literally making frame-by-frame animations in https://pivotanimator.net/, with hand-built assets. No sprites downloaded from the web, no tweening, all done by hand. If you want to get credit for "doing something by hand," you should actually have to do it by hand. Source: about 2 years ago