png format)įind a background on Google (bmp. JPG at the end of the name you can't use it!įind image on Google that you can use in Pivot Animator. PNG extension)įILE - LOAD FIGURE TYPE (Pick one animal or person that you like.) (You can use any school appropriate PNG image for a sprite image, PNG files have a transparent background) GOOGLE IMAGES - TOOLS - COLOR - TRANSPARENT (Make sure when you right-click to save it is has a. Find a transparent PNG from Google.įILE - LOAD SPRITE IMAGE - Google something that they can play catch with. This animation demonstrates the ability to add additional objects for interaction and story telling possibilities. This animation uses simple movements and adds an object and a different figure type. (You can use any PNG image for a sprite image, PNG have a transparent background)įILE - LOAD FIGURE TYPE (Pick one person that you like.)Īssignment #3 - Pivot Animator - Play Catch I saved it as a Gif file.įILE - LOAD SPRITE IMAGE - find the ball clipart in a folder call LANSCHOOL on your desktop. This animation uses simple movements and adds a ball and a different figure type. Title the slide JUMPĪssignment #2 - Pivot Animator - Play Catch Last EXPORT animation as a gif file and insert into your Google Slides. piv animation first to your desktop folder called PIVOT STUFF in case you need to make changes later. The more frames, the smoother the animation. Proceed to animate your figure to jump over the water. You can also click the numbers to the left. Use may use ALT and drag your figure to resize it.

Next FILE - LOAD BACKGROUND IMAGE (If it asks you 'Would you like to set the animation dimensions to the dimensions of the image?' Click 'Yes' Open Pivot and go to EDIT - OPTIONS and set the dimension to the same as your background 1200 x 8 00. FILE - SAVE AS - JPEG PICTURE (CREATE A NEW FOLDER ON THE DESKTOP CALLED PIVOT) You need to include blue water, brown ground, yellow sun and blue clouds. You need to draw a body of water that your pivot person will jump over. Open MS Paint and set the size of the image to 1200 width x 800 height. You create a new folder by RIGHT-CLICKING - NEW - FOLDER This will be where we save all your pivot animations.

On the desktop of your computer create a new folder called Pivot Stuff. Open Google Slides and title the Google Slides Pivot Portfolio. We will be putting all of our Pivot animations into it so that I can grade them. Pivot is FREE! You can download it at home and play with it! (Unfortunately, it does not work on a Chromebook)įolder to download to desktop for add-ons

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