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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted May 26, 2006 11:57 AM |
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Edited by william at 04:50, 25 Jun 2006.
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My Own Stick Animations
Here is some of my stick animations that I have made.
I hope that they turn out fine, and that they are good speed and everything:
Stick Animation 1
Stick Animation 2
Also if you have any stick animations that you have made, feel free to add them here 
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HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN STICK ANIMATIONS
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Firstly get a good stick animation program like Pivot.
Here is thelink
Now firstly what you do is this:
Here is what you can do.
Well here is the options form for being able to change the dimensions with the animation size.
Firstly to move your stick figure person or thing you must move a bit of its body or pivot on it.
The pivots are the red circles and you can rotate them many ways.
When you have done that you can then click next frame:
You can make frames by doing this, but it is best to make a frame when you actually move a body part or pivot as it will just be the same every time, and it will look like a still animation but that isnt what you want, unless you want to show your "animation" looking like it has frozen and then being revived again by someone or something.
This can create the element of magic and science fiction type animation like things.
Here is an example I made for you:
Thats just a quick animation showing you of the freeze time effect with your animations.
As you can see the person on the left or the main character doesn't move for a short time, alas the freeze effect I told you about.
But then what I did was add another character into there that does something with his hand and brings the main character back to life and starts moving again.
With your main pivot person the middle of it should have a yelow pivot like this:
You can rotate your pivot person or just move him around by selecting and moving all the joints/pivots on the pivot person.
When you have done moving all your pivots and moving and create all the frames you can now play your animation.
Have fun, and hope I see some good animations from you people
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Trogdor
Legendary Hero
Words in a custom title
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posted May 26, 2006 01:57 PM |
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Will has a lot more of these. He uses them while on MSN.
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"Through the power of the dollar you can communicate with the dead." - Artu
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irh
Famous Hero
Lizard
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posted May 26, 2006 02:31 PM |
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Nice . What program did you use?
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friendofgunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted May 26, 2006 06:12 PM |
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LOL
these were pretty funny.
Did you actually make these frame by frame William?
Or is there some kind of animator program you use?
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this_other_guy
Famous Hero
{0_o} heh...
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posted May 26, 2006 06:34 PM |
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Those are made with Pivot stick animator yea?  nice
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted May 27, 2006 02:16 AM |
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Edited by william at 04:36, 27 May 2006.
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yeah used and made them with pivot stickanimator.
I made and edited every little bit on the body frame by frame, I actually have another one.
Here is one that I have made ages ago, but it is pretty good.
I hope that this turns out alright.
I couldnt upload it with photobcket because it was under maintenence, so I will give you these links and I just hope that they work alright:
Dancing moves
Hope that these work.
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~Ticking away the moments that
make up a dull day, Fritter and
waste the hours in an off-hand
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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted May 27, 2006 05:02 AM |
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Edited by william at 13:55, 27 May 2006.
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Drewid
Hired Hero
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posted June 07, 2006 11:16 PM |
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haha you lot really have to go to www.stickdeath.com its great think thats the website anyway havnt been on in ages
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dread_knight
Known Hero
Converting Vegetarians
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posted June 08, 2006 09:52 PM |
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This one is a grade 12 Flash final piece of work for the semester.
It took quite a long time to make, and in the original one there was music but it is 24MB so it took a long time to upload.
Here is a the musicless version.
A story of a drunk
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TNT_Addict
Honorable
Supreme Hero
Beautiful Liar
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posted June 08, 2006 09:56 PM |
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dread_knight
Known Hero
Converting Vegetarians
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posted June 08, 2006 10:00 PM |
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It's not he who moves.
It's the environment around him 
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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted June 11, 2006 03:00 AM |
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Thats a pretty good animation there, good work haha.
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~Ticking away the moments that
make up a dull day, Fritter and
waste the hours in an off-hand
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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted June 14, 2006 01:31 PM |
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Well here is another one that I made the other day, again I hope you enjoy
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~Ticking away the moments that
make up a dull day, Fritter and
waste the hours in an off-hand
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LegendMaker
Promising
Famous Hero
The Metal Specialist
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posted June 25, 2006 04:53 AM |
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I LOVE that stuff ! Thx for sharing and for the quick guide to the ropes of the software ! 
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted June 25, 2006 04:55 AM |
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Yes Im happy to show you the ropes.
Later I will post some more advanced things that you can do with your animations.
So just watch out for when I make that
Happy to help guys and girls
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted June 25, 2006 05:55 AM |
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Edited by william at 07:39, 25 Jun 2006.
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Now onto some kind of advanced techniques on making your animations good and better.
Setting Backgrounds
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I have taken a couple of ScreenShots about the various stages into loading a background.
Thats stage one, which is quite easy to do, all you do is get your mouse cursor and click "file" and then go to "Load Background".
Theres the next phase with selecting which background you feel like.
Thats what your animation background will look like.
You have succesfully put a background into your animation.
Increasing and Decreasing sizes of Pivot people
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This can be quite tricky to master as it requires good thinking and patience to get it right.
Basically what you do here is you make a frame, then decrease the size of your stick person and then increase him slowly, making new frames with each increasement in the size of the stick figure.
It can be difficult because if your pivot person is small then you make a frame and then next frame he is instantly big again, it can look a bit weird.
Here are the steps in which to decrease the size and then increase the size of your picot person:
And here is an animation that I made, small but it shows you how you can do the small to big animations:
PS: This might not be the best quality but we aren't looking for quality we are looking at the animation and the trick provided 
Changing Colours
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You can change the colours of your stick man by clicking on the colours thing 
When you click on it a pallate pops up and you can select different colours to have your stickman in like so:
Here is what happens: 
As you can see that colour chaning thing can change your whole animation for good or for worse.
For example, here is a trick you can use:
You can make a frame having your stick man black, then make a frame, then the next frame make him red.
Creating the illusion that something magical may have happened.
It can give out really cool effects when done correctly like so:
That is a quick example that I procured up for you.
Later I will show you some more tricks of the trade
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dread_knight
Known Hero
Converting Vegetarians
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posted June 25, 2006 06:08 AM |
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I prefer flash
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Cabranth
Adventuring Hero
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posted June 25, 2006 04:37 PM |
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Hello.
Coolness.
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dread_knight
Known Hero
Converting Vegetarians
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posted June 25, 2006 08:30 PM |
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btw william, usually stickmen have a neck.
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william
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Undefeatable Hero
LummoxLewis
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posted June 26, 2006 01:40 PM |
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Yes well this is the way this program was made up lol, I cant help that they have no neck lol.
I will add some more tricks of the trade later on
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