There is a war between the Professional Adobe Flash CS4 vs. Pivot Stick Animator. The “new bones” tool in Flash CS4 can now really compare to other Stick Animating Programs like the popular Program Pivot Stick Animator.
1. Simplicity
Flash isn’t just stick animation; it can make games, calculators and even Stick Animators like the one on this website; http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17282. Flash has a bones tool which means you can make smooth movements with real people in photographs.
While Pivot on the hand can only make characters by using joints of circles and lines. This helps people who have no what so ever exprience make simple stick figure animations. The link I showed you before looks practically like Pivot. Pivot is just simply a tool for people who just need an animator which is small and can do most things for stick animation.
Round 1 goes to Pivot, while using the bones tool can be useful you will still need to know how to make a skeleton for your character,
2. Portablity
Flash is not so portable being about 3.5gB+ and cannot be installed on flash-based storage devices like USBs, SD Cards and others. With Warez becoming popular now you will be able to download portable versions which you can put on flash-based storage devices, but let me ask you one question; is it worth it?
Just like before Pivot is on the other side of life and is portable. Its size is about 5mB or smaller compared to 3.5gB+. It has the ability to be installed on practically any portable device which has more than 5mB.
Round 2 goes to Pivot again, while you keep installing Flash on different computers can be cumbersome and
downloading warez is illegal so Pivot is the way to go if you don’t want an encounter with the law.
3. Variety
Flash has a lot of variety like being able to input a programming language called ActionScript. The current one is number 3.0 which has a lot of changes compared to 2.0. When using Flash you may use color and most settings are able to be changed. You can also make your own Workspace and save it. Flash can be used to make games like most on Miniclip, which were made with Flash.
Pivot doesn’t have any variety like for instance you can’t even use different colors. You can only make stick figures with circles and lines which is pretty much a total lack of variety. The tools you can use also lack mostly variety.
For the first time Round 3 goes to Flash because of the lack of everything in Pivot.
4. Main tools
For making stick animations in Flash you would mainly need tools like the line tool, circle tool, bones tool, pencil tool and paint bucket.
In Pivot every tool there is useful although the lack of variety which was explained in Round 3.
So this Round also goes to Flash with less tools required.
5. Stability – Final Round
In Flash, bugs are constantly found and fixed with new updates. Which means a stable environment for you to make Stick Animations.
Whilst in Pivot there aren’t many known bugs which is a good thing, but it is hasn’t been updated since 2005 I presume.
So the Final Round goes to Flash. Making it the winner out of Flash vs. Pivot
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