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Two years ago, flash animation "small" in the online really fire a, this simple line composed of the villain can make a variety of movements, especially its imitation of the "Matrix" and other martial arts films in the martial arts action, but also very lifelike, stunning. In fact, through the small software pivot stickfigure Animator (hereinafter referred to as pivot), you can easily create a wonderful "small" animation, let it demonstrate that you have designed the action.
Pivot Small File
Software version: 2.2.5
Software Size: 484 KB
Software Nature: Free software
Adaptive platform: Windows 98/2000/XP
Download Address: click to download
Combat: A "little" design Dance
Below please everybody with the author together, let "small" do a basic dance action "forward roll".
The first step: After starting the pivot, it automatically creates a new file, which already contains a persona. This role is connected by multiple segments, each with two nodes (see Figure 1).
Figure 1
The second step: Drag the Red node with the mouse, you can arbitrarily adjust the limbs, torso and head posture. Drag the center yellow node to move the character as a whole. As shown in Fig. 2, is the ready posture of the adjusted "forward roll". Click the next Frame button in the lower-left corner to display a sketch of the image on the first frame of the timeline.
Figure 2
Step three: Continue to adjust the posture of the characters, each adjust a posture, to click the "Next Frame" button to add it to the timeline. As shown in Figure 3, it is all the action postures designed in this example. Click the Play button on the left to preview the animation effect, and click the Stop button to stop playing. Tick "Repeat", you can loop.
Figure 3
Step Fourth: Click File→load Background to select a prepared background picture from the Open dialog box for "small" animations. Take a picture of the CS battlefield, for example, can make the animation a lot.
Fifth step: After all the actions have been adjusted, click "File→save Animation" to open the Save dialog box, in the Save Type Drop-down list, we can have three choices: PIV is Pivot's own unique format, save all the editing information, it is best to save a file in this format, To adjust the animation in the future; GIF is one of the popular animation formats, very convenient to apply to the Web page; BMP is a static picture, select this format, then we produced the animation file will be automatically decomposed into multiple static pictures.
Sixth step: In general, after we save a PIV file, we also need to save the file as a GIF animation, when you save the GIF will display an option dialog box (see Figure 4). The most critical of this dialog box is "Frame Delay", 100 is 1 seconds, through which you can adjust the speed of the animation playback, if you think the GIF animation is too fast, you can adjust the rate of frame delay. Click OK to create an animated GIF, so you can enjoy your work.
Figure 4
More versatile
It introduces the pivot animation process, in fact, we can do a lot of editing work: Click the "Add Figure" button to add more characters to the scene; Click the Delete button to delete the selected person; through Center, Flip, Colour "and so on button can move the character to the scene center point, the inversion character, for the character coloring and so on; through the" Front "," Back "button can adjust the relationship between the individual characters.
Clicking the Edit button also allows you to edit the animated characters, drawing elephants, horses, and other animal images (see Figure 5), which are left to the reader's friends to explore.
Figure 5