Jan 02, 2011 The goal of Stykz was to be a superset of Pivot Stickfigure Animator, which only runs on Windows. So it was very important that we made a solid version of Stykz for those who wanted to migrate from Pivot, or at least to have an alternative. Jan 02, 2011 Multi-Platform Animating. Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know), so you'll be able to use Mac OS X and Windows to create, edit and preview your animations. Pivot Compatible. If you've ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you'll feel right at home working with Stykz. It was designed to be a superset of Pivot's feature set, so we know you'll appreciate the similarities to Pivot as well as the extra features that.
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The figures are drawn using lines, or segments, which are connected to each other using nodes; these nodes are also the figure’s joints. Functions such as onionskin lets you simplify editing by displaying the previous or following frame on the scene.
Figures which you create can be rotated, scaled, duplicated, colored, and flipped. You can also select several figures at the same time in order to line them up. The final animation can be saved in a MOV format movie clip. The creation of animated GIFs is still not supported.
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For OS X 10.4.2 or later.
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The animation system of Stykz is based on frames and squares, that means that you have to create the different frames one by one or modify the previous one.
You can apply some effects to the figures such as rotate, scale, flip, duplicate or color. The function called onion paper will be very useful, because it allows you to view the previous frame while you create the new one.
Finally, the output movie can be saved as GIF.