Welcome! The whole aim of the Pivot Points business is giving you some extra satisfaction from animating. When you complete an assignment, you will be awarded with the corresponding amount of PP. More PP equals bragging rights, so make sure you're at the top of the leaderboard! To submit an assignment, simply post your animation in this thread.
Got complaints, suggestions or simply questions? I'm all ears!
Update as of 11-May-2016: Pivot Points has been moved to the Freestyle section and is being run by Chris. Go here instead.
Update as of 30-Apr-2015: Resubmit any animations that were submitted between the 23rd of March and 25th of April. Animations and posts were lost in the two week site roll-back and I need the animations again to add the points. You won't get your points back unless you resubmit.
Update as of 14-Mar-2015: This thread is now being managed by me (Jojishi). Thanks TBM for all the hard work. I'll manage this the best I can.
Update as of 02-May-2014: All old updates were by Rez/Lush, I (TBM) will be updating and moderating this thread from now on.
Update as of 12-Jun-2013: I'm back into moderating the thread. Sorry for the absence. Hope to see this thread's activity kickstart again. ----- NOTE: Just so I won't spam the thread, from now on I'll post less so often to acknowledge the animators that I have added their points for the submissions. Therefore, check the leaderboard frequently! I shall be updating it as soon as it is humanly possible.
*Pivot 4 is going to be the default version used by every animator who posts an animation on this thread; *ANYONE can participate! *Posting old animations is not allowed, nor continuations of old animations; *It is generally not allowed to do the same assignment more than once, though there are a few exceptions; *You can overwrite an old assignment with a new one, if you feel the new version could earn you extra PP; *Quality over quantity!
DD15 / 169 PP - Tony Hawk, Contributor, Tribute, Color Blind, Team Player, Zap (+2), Our Little Treehouse (+2), Take Your Time!, The Snow Under, Archer, Creative Mind, Next Dimension, Noob, Merciless, Sticks Are For Casuals, Up In Flames!, Creative Mind, Beyond What You See
Binh_vSliver / 154 PP - Pew Pew, Run Forrest Run!, Remarkable Patience, Take Your Time, Multi-Awarded
Ray / 71 PP - Skilled Hands, Point Of View, I Have The Power!, Animalistic, Run Forrest Run!, Diver, Point of View
7th Day / 50 PP - Next Dimension, Tribute, Boom!, Stairfall, Sharpheads, Zap, Hammer Time!
Stripes / 49 PP - Contributor, Beyond What You See, Feelings!, Short and Sweet, Peace And Calamity, Fuck Pivot, Tony Hawk
Anton / 45 PP - Center Origin, Contributor, Cardiac Arrest, Feelings!, Smoothness Level: Pro, Neverending
Kirin / 44 PP - Noob, Freefall, Center Origin, Feelings!, Zap, Elemental, Multi-Awarded
Teh / 40 PP - Noob, Pew Pew, Brains, Run Forrest Run!, Center Origin, Ironsmith, Hammer Time!, Point Of View, Freefall, Contributor
Extra / 36 PP - Next Dimension, Noob, Blob, Sticky Situation, Brains, Stairfall, I Have The Power!
Mat / 22 PP - Run Forrest Run!, Headshot, Head In The Game, Sticks Are For Casuals, Animalistic TBM / 22 PP - Archer, Head In The Game (2), Sticks Are For Casuals (2), Tony Hawk
Clauraz / 20 PP - Elemental, Sticks Are For Casuals, Trickster Echo / 20 PP - Feelings Skyline / 20 PP - First Person
Gary / 18 PP - Slow and Steady, Run Forrest Run!, Fuck Pivot, Up & Down, Archer, Suicide
LlamaPIVOT / 16 PP - Heavy, Adventures of Peter Bone, Contributor
Luka / 15 PP - Noob, Center Origin, We Have Liftoff!, Run Forrest Run!, Sticks Are For Casuals Waffles Mgee / 15 PP - Contributor, Beyond What You See, High Tech, Tentacles Mori / 15 PP - Zap!, Heavy
The Specter / 9 PP - Diver, Run Forest Run!, Multi-Awarded, Noob
Krovavaya Luna / 7 PP - Contributor, Run Forrest Run!, Slow and Steady Tuna / 7 PP - Slow and Steady, Contributor, Neverending
Fear / 6 PP - Fuck Pivot, Noob, Next Dimension, Pew Pew FourAcross / 6 PP - Run Forrest Run!, Beyond What You See
Sifter / 5 PP - Beyond What You See DevilDog / 5 PP - Yee-Haw! Caleb / 5 PP - Contributor, Run Forrest Run!, Color Blind
Aron / 4 PP - Noob, Next Dimension
Rimidalv / 3 PP - Run Forrest Run!, Tentacles
Rekd / 2 PP - Slow and Steady, Contributor Lord Pivot / 2 PP - Multi-Awarded
REMEMBER: Creativity and originality could give extra points!
Spoiler:
Contributor Suggest a new assignment (will only count if it's actually added) 1 PP
Fuck Pivot Make an animation in EasyToon, Flash or Stykz 1 PP
Noob Animate a custom stick figure beating up the default stick figure 1 PP
Pew Pew Animate a stick figure shooting another stick figure 1 PP
Run Forrest Run! Animate a run loop 1 PP
Colour Blind Make an animation only using gray scale colours (black stick figure on white background doesn't count, be creative) 1 PP
Slow and Steady Animate a walk 1 PP
Run for Your Life Animate a stick-figure getting scared and running away 2 PP
Central Origin Make an animation where the origin point (the orange node) is always in the center of the scene 2 PP
Tentacles Animate some kind of tentacle in an interesting fashion (no hentai you disgusting fuck) 2 PP
Sprite-tastic Make an animation using only sprites 2 PP
Fun Park Animate a stickman going down a slide 2 PP
In The Darkness, We Remain Unseen Animate a stickman turning on/off a light 2 PP
Connected Animate at least 3 stickfigures that are connected together using the Join Figure feature 2 PP
Slash Animate a stick figure doing sword sparring 2 PP
Speech Animate mouth movement on a stick figure 2 PP
Pole Dancing Animate a stick figure doing a staff combo 2 PP
Less Is More Animate a small stick figure beating up a larger stick figure 2 PP
Elastic Animate a stick figure with stretchy limbs 2 PP
Multi-Awarded Animate a joint with someone (more than two people allowed) 2 PP each
Tony Hawk Animate a stick figure riding a skate board 2 PP
Hairy Animate a stick figure with hair 2 PP
Decapitation Animate a stick figure being decapitated 3 PP
Next Dimension Animate a scene including obvious 3D movements 3 PP
Monochrome Animate using only the shades of one colour 3 PP
Craft Pro! Animate a stickman throwing a paper aeroplane 3 PP
Musician Animate a stickman playing a musical instrument 3 PP
Sticks Are For Casuals Animate a full-body character 3 PP
Ironsmith Animate a stickman using a hammer 3 PP
Kid's play Have a stickman play with a bouncy ball 3 PP
Run, Run, Ruuuuun! Animate a stickman on a treadmill 4 PP
Freefall Animate a stickfigure falling from a great height 4 PP
Hungry? Make a stickfigure eat food something
Rotoscoper Rotoscope something animated. Extra points for cool/creative/ambitious animations 5PP
Creative Mind Animate something that no one has ever thought of doing before 5 PP
Head Shot Make a sniper animation 5 PP
Peace And Calamity Animate something peaceful 5 PP
Shadows/Reflections Animate a shadow or reflection 5 PP
Sharpheads Animate a stickman with a spear 5 PP
Blob Animate a blob 5 PP
Up & Down Animate two stickmen on a seesaw 5 PP
Light As A Feather Animate a stickman with a kite 5 PP
Fluid Dynamics Animate a decent amount of particles 5 PP (may vary)
Merciless Animate a stickman hitting a punching bag 5 PP
Beyond What You See Make a detailed background, doesn't need to be animated 5 PP
Adventures Of Peter Bone Animate the Peter Bone sprite (found in Program Files>Pivot Animator>animations>sprite_demo) 5 PP
Bungee Animate a bungee jump 5 PP
Felony Animate a stick doing something illegal (within in restraints) 5 PP
Diver Animate a dive into water 5 PP
Hammer Time! Animate a Stick Figure using a hammer to smash enemies 5 PP
Assassination Animate a figure stealthily killing/assassinating another stick 5 PP
Heartbroken Animate two stickfigures breaking up </3 5 PP
Zap Animate a stick figure getting electrocuted 5 PP
Animalistic Animate an animal 5 PP
Yee-Haw! Animate a stickman riding a horse 5 PP
Oldschool Make an animation where the style is clearly inspired by some of the very old Pivoteers 5 PP
Boom Animate an explosion 5 PP
What is Gravity? Animate a stick figure in a situation where normal gravity does not apply 5 PP
Archer Animate a stick figure using a bow and arrow 5 PP
Piggy Back Animate a stick figure giving another stick figure a piggy back ride 5 PP
Tarzan Animate a stick figure swinging from a rope 5 PP
Suicide Animate a stick figure killing itself 5 PP
Hover Animate a stick figure riding a hoverboard 5 PP
X-ray Animate a close-up scene of a limb breaking, showing the bone breaking 5 PP
Bounce Animate a stick figure jumping on a trampoline 5 PP
Head In The Game Make an animation based off a video game 5 PP
Brains Animate a scene including zombies 5 PP
Yoyo Play Animate a stickman using a yoyo 5 PP
Ballsy Animate a stickman playing with a ball of some sort 5 PP
The Art Of Movement Animate a stick figure freerunning 5 PP
Neverending Make an animation that loops smoothly, at least 20 frames 5 PP
Petty Thief Animate a stick figure stealing from another stick figure 5 PP
Sticky Situation Make a stickfigure turn into goo 5 PP
Lightsaber Animate a stickman with a lightsaber 5 PP
Beast-man Make a stick transform into an animal 5 PP
Crowded Make an animation involving 5 or more stickfigures 5 PP
Quite a character Make an animation involving forum member(s) as characters 5 PP
Our Little Treehouse Animate a stickman climbing a tree 5 PP
Toilet Humor Animate something silly and humorous having to do with something absurd 5 PP
The Best Around Make a stickfigure prove its stupidity 5 PP
Batter Up Have a stickfigure use a baseball bat 5 PP
Finish Him! Create a Mortal Kombat fatality in Pivot 5 PP
Thinking with Portals Make an animation with the Portal gun 5 PP
Dracula Make an upside down animation 5 PP
Trickster Animate a stickman tricking 7 PP
Matrix Animate slow motion 7 PP
Primate Intelligence Animate a stickman on monkey bars 7 PP
Bike Skills Animate a stickman on a BMX 7 PP
Team Player Animate a team sport 7 PP
Smoothness Level: Pro Animate something at a higher fps rate than 24 7 PP
Close Call Animate a stickman doing close combat attacks on another stickman 7 PP
Stairfall Animate a stickman falling downstairs 7 PP
Misery Loves Company Animate a stick killing itself and dragging other sticks along with it 7 PP
Unsafe Heights Animate a stickman skydiving 7 PP
Marvel-ous! Animate a superhero of sorts 7 PP
High Tech Make an animation where gadgets, technologies, etc. are the main focus 7 PP
Invisible Make an animation about an invisible figure interacting with the environment 7 PP
Ouch! Have a stickfigure do a grapple move to another stickfigure 7 PP
A Racket And A Ball Animate a stickman playing tennis 8 PP
Get Down, Soldier! Animate a stickman crawling 8 PP
Down We Go! Animate a stickman on a rollercoaster 8 PP
Who's Your Daddy? Animate a stickman using a whip 8 PP
Get Rekd Kid! Animate a stickman getting bullied. 8 PP
The Snow Under Animate a stickman snowboarding 8 PP
We Have Liftoff! Animate a stickman flying a jet pack 8 PP
Breathe! Animate a stick figure choking to death 8 PP
Hi, I Work At IKEA Make an animation of a stick figure building/assembling something 10 PP
Tumbling Clinic Animate a stickman executing the requested combo of acrobatic movements flawlessly, as close to realism as possible (see the current challenges in the official thread) 10 PP
Spooky Scary Stickfigures Try to animate something creepy or scary 10 PP
Do You Even Lift? Animate a stickman lifting weights 10 PP
Mechanical Animate a robot doing robot stuff 10 PP
Sky High! Animate someone sprouting wings and flying 10 PP
Heavy Animate something to show weight (eg: struggling to pick up an anvil) 10 PP
Smoking Kills Animate a stick figure smoking, and then getting killed 10 PP
Ping-Pong Animate two stickmen playing table tennis 10 PP
Boing, Boing, Boing! Animate a stickman bouncing on a pogo stick 10 PP
Spectral Spook Animate a ghost 10 PP
Catchin' Speed Animate a stickman skiing 10 PP
Pair Of Rope And A Wood Plank Animate a stickman on a swing 10 PP
On Fire! Animate a stickman being engulfed in flames 10 PP
Strength In Numbers Animate 2 or more figures working together to complete a task or overcome an obstacle. 10 PP
Booty Swing Animate a stickman showing off different dance moves 10 PP
Don't drop anything Animate a stickman juggling things (cones, balls, other stickmen etc) 10 PP
Multiplicity Animate a stick figure fighting at least two other stick figures at the same time 10 PP
Spontaneous Combustion Animate a stickfigure spontaneously exploding with a lot of blood and gore 10 PP
Tribute Make an animation that clearly tributes another pivot animator 10 PP
Rush Hour Animate a car chase scene 10 PP
Come 'ere! Animate a stickman capturing an enemy with a lasso 10 PP
In Chains Animate a stickman locked in chains trying to escape 10 PP
Now You See It, Now You Don't! Animate a magic trick 10 PP
Cardiac Arrest Animate a heart attack 10 PP
Diversity Combine two animation programs into one animation (eg. Flash & Pivot) 10 PP
Elemental Animate a stick figure manipulating the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air) 10 PP
I Have The Power! Animate a stick concentrating heavily its energy (aura, etc), and hitting something with this charge 10 PP
Other Half 10 PP Animate a stickfigure getting ripped/cut/whatever in half, by another stickfigure
Mirror, mirror Animate a stickfigure mimicking one another 10 PP
Short and Sweet Animate a short story 10 PP
Trapped! Animate a Stick figure getting/being trapped inside of something trying to get out 15 PP
Prehistoric Animate a stickman with the idiotic traits of a caveman 15 PP
Aye, Sailor! Animate a stickman sailing a boat 15 PP
Drunken Style Animate a drunk stickman's movements 15 PP
Point Of View Animate from a first person perspective 15 PP
Feelings! Animate a stick figure clearly expressing emotions like sadness, surprise, happiness and so on 20 PP
First Person Make a first person shooter animation 20 PP
Skilled Hands Animate a stickman drawing/painting 20 PP
Outer Shell Animate a stick having an out of body experience 20 PP
Up In Flames! Animate a Phoenix 40 PP
Take Your Time! Make a 500-frames long animation about anything you like (points will be awarded only if it lives up to your current standards) 50 PP
Remarkable Patience Make a 1000-frames long animation about anything you like (points will be awarded only if it lives up to your current standards) 100 PP
2 in 1 Animate 2 or more of the assignments in a single animation. (PP varies for which assignments and quality/quantity of animation)
Look at the spoiler under assignments, they list plenty of things you can animate. Once your done post the animation in this thread and your name will be added to the leaderboard with how many pivot points you've earned.
