by Mitch » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:35 am
Exactly, fucking thank you Toast. It's a program where the degree of complexity that the community has realized in the program stemmed from innate simplicity. For something like flash that offers different forms of execution, tweening has it's place.
I'm not saying pivot is simple because it's not due to it's evolution prompted by the community. However with all of pivots intricacies aside, it offers 1 form of execution: the core concept of just moving different colored dots is an aesthetic that still exists, and still doesn't need tweening to function as a skillful medium of animation.
The thing that makes pivot stand out in my opinions is it's bare bones charm that just says "here is some dots, now learn to fucking animate without being babied." Pivot doesn't need to offer a HUGE degree of intricacy in it's design because the possibility for intricacy is in the hands of the animator, and the animator needs to work for his desired outcome. So like I said before, all of pivot's insane complexity stems from simplicity.
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