Google Day 4

3 Goals for the Day:

• Revise all Pivot animations and correct tiny mistakes, etc.
• Show how a Pivot character can be made.
• Make a figure on Pivot (Upload pictures of the Steps to making a figure).

Useful Links:

• http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-a-Stickman-in-Pivot-Stickfigure-Animat/#step1: Shows how to create a figure on the Pivot animation program.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1H3ATJat8k: This link directs to a video on Youtube that gives a very good explanation and example on creating your own figure on the Pivot animation program.
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-FREE-Flash-Animation-Pivot-Animation/step3/Make-a-Stickman/: This website goes into a lot of detail into making a simple character on Pivot, it also explains what each of the modifying buttons do on the "Create Figure Type" tab in the Pivot animation program.

What I learned:

Today I made my own Pivot figure on the program that had a proper set of legs, arms, and a normal head alongside a regular body. Making the Pivot figure wasn't that hard as it was contained regular (basic) stick figure making options, if the figure was to be realistic it would have to be consisted of about 100 sticks for each bone of the human body. The pictures above show some basic steps of how the figure was made and a signature move from Usain Bolt. The signature move was able to be made as when editing the stick figure, you can always move the limbs of the figure to make it do anything.

What I'll be doing during the Presentation:

When I conduct my presentation to show my fellow classmates of what I have made, I will first start off by showing them how to make a simple Pivot figure (for about 3 minutes into the presentation). After creating a Pivot figure on the animation program, I will show them a few examples of the animations (taking up about 2 minutes or so) I have created using different figures that I have made such as the animation of the man falling of a horse, a man walking down an alley to pick up a newspaper, etc. Overall, I will show my classmates that making an animation takes a lot of time when the animation has a very realistic figure and a realistic background, as every frame, the limbs of the figures and the background has to be changed to remain a realistic animation of constant movement.