Since Grundy’s homecoming was this past week, I decided to animate two figures playing football. This isn’t my first time using Pivot Animator; students who have previously been enrolled in this course had already downloaded the software onto my high school’s computers in library, the room where we take online courses. I had animated a couple of shorts when I had nothing else to do, so I was already familiar with the software. However, I had never completed one 100+ frames, which was what this one was–104 frames! The hardest part for me was animating the movement of the ball. While this animation is still not as smooth as I would have liked it, I am still proud of its narrative and the fluidity of the characters I managed to achieve.
This took me the better half of an hour because I am a perfectionist. I couldn’t find a background I liked, nor a football I liked, so that really ate up a lot of time I could have spent creating my GIF. Still, despite that, I am happy with how it turned out. Using Pivot was not as challenging once I remembered how to re-position characters, though I was at a loss for, roughly, 10 minutes when trying to find out how to save the file as a GIF. Another issue I had was when I was trying to insert images I liked into Pivot. There were several football fields that I thought would be fine, but the dimensions were either off horribly or the file would refuse to be inserted.
Overall, I found this to be extremely enjoyable. I overthought the process a lot, such as how I am not entirely familiar with the exact mechanics of football or if the stick figures were proportionate to the background. Regardless, I thought my GIF turned out fine and all my worrying was worth it.
Thank you for viewing and I hope you enjoy what I’ve created!
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