First steps of becoming a pivoter
If you're gonna do it, you might as well do it right.
The tools you need:
- A PC strong enough to run Sony Vegas.
Sony Vegas software (Don't try Windows Movie Maker!).
The newest Pivot Animator version: https://pivotanimator.net/Download.php
YTD Video Downloader szoftver: https://www.ytddownloader.com/
Steps for making a pivot video:
- Getting inspiration: Watch other's videos to find out what you're supposed to make and how.
- Coming up with ideas: Think about what kind of intro, skits and credits sequence you want to make.
- Getting and organizing your tools: Make a separate folder where you put your animation tools, video making tools and assets.
- Making of the pivot video: Pivot Animator->Sony Vegas->final video.
- Upload video to the internet and manage it. I recommend youtube.
Steps in more detail:
1.: Getting inspiration
Pro pivoters who already proved themselves:
2.: Coming up with ideas
You can either do that or not. Not much to explain here.
3.:Getting and organizing your tools
A list of sites where you can get some good assets from. The downloads are free on all these sites and registration is only necessary where I mention it.
| droidz.org | From here you can download pre-made figures like vehicles, weapons, stick figures etc.. |
| moviewavs.com | From here you can download sound files of movie quotes. They are important for talking stick figure skits. |
| findsounds.com | It's a sound effect downloading site. You might have to search a lot sometimes but this site has everything you might need. |
| freesound.org | Another sound effect downloading site. Registration required. |
| soundbible.com | Sound effect downloading site. |
| flashkit.com | Sound effect downloading site. You need to go to the Sound FX menu. |
| freesfx.co.uk | Sound effect downloading site. Registration required. |
| https://www.bottomap.com/Software/A4B/A4B.html | With this software you can convert gifs and videos into sprite sheets which you can later cut into separate images using MS Paint. For example that's how you can put the dancing banana gif into your animation. |
Another alternate method of getting the desired sound effect is to just cut it out of the video you found it in. All you have to do is to download the video using YTD Video Downloader and then cut it using Sony Vegas.
Once you have all your pivoting tools, here's a tip for how to organize them into a folder:
