How to Improve Your Animating Skills in Pivot

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Download Pivot 3.0

   Inside, make the following folders:
   Backgrounds, and animations.
   
   This will help you stay organized if you make a lot of animations. , Make a large area to draw in, then draw a line for ground and a chair.
   
   Save it to the Backgrounds folder. , Click "File" and then click "load background".
   
   Select the background you just made. , Watch the animation when you are done.
   
   Does it look choppy? Try moving him less between frames and raise the FPS. , Name it Chair
   1. , Use the same background and try to make it look better when he sits.
   
   When you are done, save it as Chair
   2. , When it does, make him read a newspaper or call somebody on a cell phone. ,
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   Step 2: as older versions are inferior.

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   Step 3: Make a folder on your desktop named Pivot.

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   Step 4: Open Microsoft Paint.

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   Step 5: Open Pivot.

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   Step 6: Try making the stick man sit in the chair.

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   Step 7: Save your first attempt to your animations folder.

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   Step 8: Start over.

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   Step 9: Repeat this until it looks great.

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    Step 10: Continue this method until you can create animations with ease.

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