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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Movies with Pivot stick-figure animation

My 9-year-old son is a Pivot stick animation freak. I want to save his short animations on CD and online, but have no idea how to.
Laurence O'Toole

Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a small free program that enables anyone to produce short cartoons. You can save each animation as a GIF image file, which can be copied, stored and run like any other GIF. You can also add a GIF file to the timeline in the free Windows Movie Maker or a similar program. That lets you add titles and music, then export the result as a movie file. There's a 7-minute guide, How To Get Pivot On YouTube, on YouTube. In fact, if you search YouTube for pivot tutorials, you (and your son) can find guides to doing a range of Pivot tricks.

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