Pivot - Taking Stick Men to the next Dimension!

[ciledog]

Err, Styks? :p

New program, read back a few pages if you wanna learn some more :)

No, I was implying that pivot is still better, by a long shot.

[Dakano]

indeed it is. it just breaks when i open it so i gave up.
i click and drag, nothing happens.
i click new frame and nothing happens.
i right click and nothing happens.
then everything just works in the wrong order and he looks like
http://forums.weebls-stuff.com/picture.php?albumid=185&pictureid=1288
well, something like that :D

[stykzman]

indeed it is. it just breaks when i open it so i gave up.
i click and drag, nothing happens.
i click new frame and nothing happens.
i right click and nothing happens.
Wow... I'm sorry to hear you're having so much trouble! When you say "it just breaks when I open it" do you mean something happens when you start running the program? Do you get an error window like saying it "can't find libraries"? And are you running Vista?

(The reason I ask is that I've had a couple of reports of Stykz not working right in Vista and there's a simple method to get it to work if that's the case.)

If you'd rather PM me about this instead of respond here, that's fine with me. I really want to get this fixed before the official 1.0 release in April.

Thanks!

[Kamikazi spoon]

the most frustrating thing with stykz i have is that the stickman keeps overlapping the joints, so i have to move parts of the stickman to get to one joint.

in the end i get loads of shakiness

new piv
http://i41.tinypic.com/2ufy5ps.jpg

[stykzman]

the most frustrating thing with stykz i have is that the stickman keeps overlapping the joints, so i have to move parts of the stickman to get to one joint.

in the end i get loads of shakiness
The segments overlapping the joints is the #1 complaint and will be fixed for the next beta release (due in a week or so). Not sure what you mean by "shakiness", though...

[Kamikazi spoon]

The segments overlapping the joints is the #1 complaint and will be fixed for the next beta release (due in a week or so). Not sure what you mean by "shakiness", though...

shakiness is where it moves in a different direction abruptly

heres and example:
http://i43.tinypic.com/a3iic8.jpg

the guy's legs in midair keeps shaking from side to side in the middle of the animation.

its harder on stykz because its hard to use techniques like duplicating the same stick figure and use the second stick figure as a basepoint to refer to with the onion skinning and to avoid shakiness and better foot placement

i bet your confused now :P

[stykzman]

shakiness is where it moves in a different direction abruptly

heres and example:
http://i43.tinypic.com/a3iic8.jpg

the guy's legs in midair keeps shaking from side to side in the middle of the animation.

its harder on stykz because its hard to use techniques like duplicating the same stick figure and use the second stick figure as a basepoint to refer to with the onion skinning and to avoid shakiness and better foot placement

i bet your confused now :P
Actually, yes. :) I look at the GIF in Firefox and it looks fine; when I download it and examine the GIF frame by frame, it looks fine there as well. I'm wondering if it's some way that a particular browser is rendering it? You could also try an experiment and put in a large frame delay in the export (like 50) and see if you see the same issue in "slo-mo".

You *can* duplicate the same stick figure (select it and choose "Duplicate" form the Edit menu). But this duplicates the figure with an offset. If you want a clone that's exactly on top of the one you're working on, instead of Duplicate, use Copy/Paste.

[dj stick]

OMG wow this place is still going strony eh?
Well guys im coming back to all this I hope I don't suck too hard.

[blahman111000]

NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK dj stik!!! good luck with your future pivs :)

[Kamikazi spoon]

i found a really cool bonus to pivot

its called beneton's movie gif.

and it helps edit all the animation and add cool effects to GiFs (not pivot files)

it can do cool effects,
FIX GIF RAPE!!!!
change the background
add custom colors
add extra frames to the animation

you should check this out

download link: http://www.download.com/Beneton-Movie-GIF/3000-2186_4-10566148.html

theres still some problems that i havnt found out yet, but its really catching on quickly :D

original:

http://i44.tinypic.com/6yf5kw.jpg

edited (has a few bugs that i need to sort out =/ )

http://i44.tinypic.com/2d9aed1.jpg

[Small Fry]

Like the two massive black lines through it? And being laggy as fuck?

[Teri]

Isn't laggy at all for me.

Black lines are there though.

[Kamikazi spoon]

like i said, i'm just asking how to get rid of them.

heres a better example on what you can do (not mine)
http://imageflock.com/img/1228618443.gif

i like the blurring effect though

[Small Fry]

Looks good there, I suppose you just need to iron the rough edges out.

[Kamikazi spoon]

after having a day off from homework, i have done it!

everything always breaks when i'm not on admin...

anyhoo, it looks much better now
http://i44.tinypic.com/2n8tysl.gif

[pivotlover]

this has a giant burger

[Small Fry]

By burger do you mean 'problem'? Because it doesn't even play.

I think he does.

[pivotlover]

teh burger!

the burger was not made by me it was by pivotmasterdx

and i need to post enough cause im new

omg

i like pie

[Kamikazi spoon]

teh burger!

the burger was not made by me it was by pivotmasterdx

and i need to post enough cause im new

omg

i like pie

I think that bad grammar just gave me a seizure...

cant you just post the [/IMG] code?

[Teri]

I think that bad grammar just gave me a seizure...

cant you just post the [/IMG] code?

IMG code still requires you to post a link which you can't do until you've made 15 posts.

[Kamikazi spoon]

original:
http://i42.tinypic.com/90p0eu.jpg

second:
http://i41.tinypic.com/mkyqns.jpg

third: (i thought this looked cool)
http://i39.tinypic.com/2rcsi9e.jpg

[blahman111000]

Dude the second one looked pretty raw.. pretty cool program u using.

[Viper1703]

Long time no see >.<
man this place brings back major memories
for people who used to know me im Stick Doctor ahha i just cant seem to view this thread on it i think it got banned or something so yeah (y)
hey to all the old people :D
ima start coming back here a bit more :)
and ill post some things after i practice abit ahah xD
im a little rusty :D

[crazyMLC]

Instant blurring effects on stykz?
Neat.
Gradient backgrounds look a bit cheesy though.

[Eoin the Bald]

Hello everyone, hadn't posted on this in ages so I decided to make an animation really fast. This took all of 10 minutes:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3734/failedescape.gif (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=failedescape.gif)

[Kamikazi spoon]

pivots can easily be reflected on how much time you put in, so, this one isnt so great as its kinda rushed

[Small Fry]

This took all of 10 minutes:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3734/failedescape.gif (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=failedescape.gif)

You can tell.

[longman]

it does look a little to rushed...more care should have been taken

[Small Fry]

Having said that, I encourage you to make more; just spend a bit more time on them :)

[TheGodzalo75]

go to droidz.org for a bunch of diff .stk files

[Eoin the Bald]

You can tell.
Yeah but the script took months...

[Aerial]

Here's something that I'm currently working on:
http://pimp.darkdemon.org/6861/1242744077.piv

This animation is in .piv format, because when you convert the animation into a .gif, the colours used in the animation get raped ):

This isn't finished yet, but it will be soon. All the .stk files are made by me, I don't use other peoples.

[Kamikazi spoon]

heres a punch:
http://i43.tinypic.com/21awxw7.jpg

http://i40.tinypic.com/2bpnjt.jpg

[Small Fry]

Nice pivots, as always. First looks good :D

Only two criticisms of the second KS, one being the uppercut, which doesn't seem to have enough force or follow-through and the second being the blood. It's...horrible, to be perfectly honest. Looks unrealistic, like it was drawn in paint and it doesn't move with his body properly when he falls. I like the glasses though, suppish as fuck.

[Aerial]

http://imageflock.com/img/1208461803.gif
Made this a while back, but still one of my favourites.

[MrExDee]

Haha, i love pivot. im pretty good at my pivots, if you want to see them, search for "MrExDee" or "SyluxXD" on youtube.

[Oistaroo]

Haha, i love pivot. im pretty good at my pivots, if you want to see them, search for "MrExDee" or "SyluxXD" on youtube.


I checked out your stuff and they are very good! :)

My experience with Pivot is bad, you would probably all laugh at me :(

[Aerial]

I checked out your stuff and they are very good! :)

My experience with Pivot is bad, you would probably all laugh at me :(

Hey man, don't be so down on yourself. It might sound like something rubbish ad common to say to people, but keep practicing. If you post your animations, I'll kindly tell you what parts need to be improved on, what you done good, and etc.

[Oistaroo]

Bah my animations are long gone.. I'm more into 3d stuff now. >_<

[JCM]

I've grown quite fond of Pivot. Here's a test I made a few months ago.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/8396/ladderfall.gif

Note: No stickfigures were harmed in the making of this animation.

[Dakano]

In my opinion, you should have used a faster framerate, but otherwise, good jobs.

[paris_below]

my first and only pivot GIF
http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q333/paris_below/hitlerboogie.gif

i know the quality is really shitty...sorry.