Hello! I always liked watching stick animations, now that i got pivot i m thinking of making some of my own and YES I SUCK AT PIVOT, I need tuts and some practise blurgh!

You seem like a nice enough guy, I guess. Look in the pivot tutorials section. Theres lots of things that could help there. Also, welcome to Stickpage.

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Hello! I always liked watching stick animations, now that i got pivot i m thinking of making some of my own and YES I SUCK AT PIVOT, I need tuts and some practise blurgh!

Hello, I see you're new to Pivot and that's nice to see because it's good that somebody new is interested in this program.
It's a very simple program but you can go very far with it.
Well, if you compare your animation to the animations of people who're on this for a while now, you'll see that yours... can't keep up with those, but that's normal, you can't be born a master.
There are some keywords you'll hear all the time. One of them is smoothness. It means that the movements are smooth and look very realistic, without being choppy and looking totally unreal. To do this, you need to make a movement many frames long. You need to animate the frames between a foot on the ground and a foot in a face instead of both those two. To give you a hint, I used to make my kicks about 6-9 frames long when I still animated.
Yes this takes time, but there's no need to rush your animations. If you're fed up for a moment, save the animation and continue somewhen else. That's just normal, everybody works that way.
Then, there's the stiffness. See, what you do is just move the limb that's used for the thing, like a leg for a kick or an arm for a punch. But that's not good, you should look at yourself in front of a mirror, punching. The movement of your arm affects other parts of your body, they move, too. Try to get this into an animation.
Then, easing is hard to explain. What you do is animate a movement and then just stop. It's like this:

|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|

But that's unrealistic. When animating, make the movements start slowly, then get faster and then calm down again, like this:

|-|--|---|----|---|--|-||


It's a bit hard to explain but I hope you get it.

Now, for you're not very good at animating, post your animations in this thread: http://stickpageportal.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35330

It's a thread for Beginners to post their animations. If you post them here on the forum, you'll propabely get flamed for that because we don't want a load of beginner's posting it here.

Have patience and I see you being a very good animator in no time. I've seen many rise from Newb to Veteran (Two, actually), and you can do exactely the same.

Sw33tness. You people have the coolio animations ev3r! Just like Zeus I'm also new and wana try to make some animations. You guys make it look so easy :p Imma try pivot.. If u have any non reasonable special tips pm me (''\(;,,,,;)/'')

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Sw33tness. You people have the coolio animations ev3r!

Don't do that.

Yes sir,! I gotcha

GO to easytoon, it's better for everyone.
And well-cum.

Really? From watching the YOU-tube vids pivot seems more cooler... I'm not the best drawer and from looking at how you use eztoon it seem u have to draw more -_^ whats your take on the + and - of these programs?

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Easytoon will help you more in the long run, and......it's just all around better.

Don't forget the other programs that no one knows about.

hi im new, just started using Pivot, you will be seeing some of my animations soon, it would be great if you left some constructive criticsism about them so i can learn to make better ones, and you wont be cringing when you watch them.
looking forward to learning form you, see ya round

Hmm. Another animation thingy you can use is Koolmoves. It's fifty dollars but it auto smooths and tweens. Meh.

finally was able to join. No more using Raidforce to post my stuff. Well, im 14, have been animating in flash for 2 weeks, have been animating on paper for 2 years, drawing for 4 years, and writing for 4 years. :D

hi my names nick ive been messing with pivot for a while just never got into youtube and forums like now so i hope to get more experienced