Pivot Program Provides Preliminary Problem

"Pivot" is a great animation program that kids can use to create story lines and animate them frame by frame. The grayed out area shows your last frame so lining up each new frame is a snap. Here's a story created on Primary Election Day in PA. which concerns an elephant, a donkey, and a man.

IN order to use a background created by a student, we had to figure out how to change the file type of the file from a "Word" to a "Paint" file, as pivot looks for graphics file types only to upload. That took alot of thought, and in the end we learned how to use the "Print Screen" button to paste a Word doc. into Paint to save it to a .jpg file. Pivot is then able to use your own graphic created in Word as a background. You could have created it in Paint all along and saved the time, but then we wouldn't have learned how to use the Print Screen button!

Pivot allows you to create your own people or animals or even words to have even more fun. If you think it looks easy, give it a try! It's a real workout if you have a story to animate.

I've added a link on the right to download "Pivot" to your computer.