Create 2D stick-figure and sprite animations using a set of straightforward actions.
Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator and usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and sprite animations, and save them in the animated GIF format for use on web pages and the AVI format (in Pivot Animator 3 and later).
Pivot provides a simple, easy to use interface with a few features. It uses fixed length 'sticks' to ensure size consistency during animation.
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Homepage: http://pivotanimator.net
Download: http://d1920iognmqxj.cloudfront.net/b74/9/gnh/pivot_v4-2.exe
Pivot Animation Forum: http://www.pivotanimation.org/
Pivot Animator 2 is the popular original version of the software. It doesn't have many of the features of Pivot Animator 4 but is included here for those who are more familiar with the original version. This version implemented the 'Stick Figure Builder', which allowed users to create their own stick figure designs saved in the STK format. This allowed a much wider scope of animation choice for Pivot users. It also fixed a few minor bugs, added the buttons to the main interface to bring a stick figure in front or behind other figures, and could automatically check to make sure the user didn't lose any unsaved projects.
http://www.resised-gihegi.com/pym/346/s3c/pivot_v2-2.exe