Google Day 2

3 Goals of the Day:

1. Research for a file that includes new characters, backgrounds for the Pivot program.
2. Create a new animation that includes the new characters, backgrounds.
3. Practice the use of making characters by myself using the "Create Figure Type" button on the Pivot program.

Useful Links:

• droidz.org: A very useful site that contains packages for Pivot characters, weapons, backgrounds, etc. 
• http://pivotanimator.net/: The main website of Pivot, has a FAQ in which animators can learn more about the program, and how to use it in an advanced way.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtr04cnx5A&feature=related: This video shows an animation of an animation that is fighting the animator. The video shows how much detail these Pivot animations can go to when a lot of precious time is used. 

Evidence of What I learned:

Animation of Fighting Men

Animation of 3 Men Flying

Animation of a man falling off a horse

Today I learned that making a Pivot animation that is good and detailed takes a lot of time and effort. A pivot animation that lasts about 10 seconds can take up to 20 minutes to make if it is very detailed and well made. Making a Pivot animation is not only about creating each and every frame to be so detailed that it takes 1 hour to make a 10 second animation, it is about using your own effort to create a character, create a background, and organize them all together to make it look realistic. The creation of these animations are made frame by frame as if someone took a picture of each second of an action you did, which makes the animations very long to create. Some of these pictures below show the animations until now that I have created that are still in the stage of improving. 

Things I would like to learn next Google Day:

On the next Google Day, I would like to learn how to make my own Pivot character and actually implant him into one of my animations.