
Status bar info at bottom of main window.Ability to modify existing figure types.Much higher segment limit per figure (30,000).Multiple colours and sprites per figure.Pivot 5.1 beta was released in July 2021, with several new features including:

Pivot 5.1 Short movie in Pivot Animator 5 New features include copying and pasting selected stick figures and sprites, a transparent figure builder window, and the ability to export images in the Scalable Vector Graphics format. Pivot 4.2 was announced on Decemfollowed by a beta release on January 1, 2015. Pivot Animator 4.1.10 was released as the "stable" version of 4.1 and is still the latest non-beta version so far (as of October 2015).


This version implemented the 'Stick Figure Builder', which allowed users to create their own stick figure designs saved in the STK format. The second major release of the Pivot Stickfigure Animator. This was one of the first animation programs available on the computer. Users were given few options of image optimization, compression or resizing when saving their animation. Animations could be saved in the PIV (Pivot Project File) or exported as Animated. Stick figures were limited to one type of stick figure, the default stick figure. The first version of Pivot Animator had several software bugs. It uses fixed-length 'sticks' to ensure size consistency during animation.ĭevelopment and history First release Pivot provides a simple, easy to use interface with a few features. 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).
