Pivot Setting up.

Hi, I'm Herl, Also known as LG59, I just want to help a lot of person who are just starting in pivot,
I know I might not be in the right place to give off such words or either it is my profession to be viable but I've been animating for almost 5 year with this program and seen that I was able to help a lot of people who're just starting animating using Pivot.

Before we get to the technicalities we need to go and take all the programs that are available at hand that would help us to our endeavor.

Essentials:

Pivot

Pivot is a Free Animating Software made by Peter Bone Himself Created with Delphi
for more information check link: http://pivotanimator.net/index.html

Download The latest version here:
http://pivotanimator.net/Download.php

Download Stick Packs from:
http://droidz.org/index.php
https://allpivoters.blogspot.com/
http://lg59.weebly.com/



Glass 2k

This program just simply make windows transparent, it is useful for tracing images, scenes from other animation and such.
Download and Information link :
http://chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml


E.g. of use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkQLMZUy3A






Aesthetic: (For producing Better Quality/Putting Sound Effect etc.)
Gimp

This program is a program for editing Photo's and is useful for editing Pivot files that is saved as SVG. Also this program is completely free. This also help produce a good quality GIF from pivot.
Download and more Info here: https://www.gimp.org/


E.g. of use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ySAbh8okEM




Macromedia Flash/Flash CS6:

I use this program for blurring effect, and adding sound effects. Sadly I can't give a link or distribute it as my own. So no download link for this one.







There Are many other programs used for producing High Quality Pivot animations.
Listed as:
Audacity for Audio.
After Effects for Video Editing.
Sony Vegas Pro.
And many more for post production.

Now that We have anything we Need we can get to the Basics!