

An alternative method for opening a PIV file is to drag the PIV file icon onto the Pivot Animator program icon in Windows Explorer. If the animation is long or contains many backgrounds images or sprites, then it may take several seconds to open. Opening an animation Navigate to the file, select it and click ‘Open’.

Native animation format used by Pivot Animator, a program for creating stick figure animations contains stick figures that have moveable parts, or “joints,” which can be moved and saved as individual animation frames.

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). Adobe Flash What is Pivot how is it helpful in animation?
