Kreate-A-Fatality Community Thread
This will be our NEW Kreate-a-Fatality Community thread where we will discuss and show off our own MK Animations using Sprites and stick figures. I thought the other topic was pretty lame and dead and I wanted to move on with something better and something made by me.
If your new to this thread don't worry, look below for instructions on how to work with the Pivot Animator etc... to Kreate your own kool Fatalities and movies.
No flamming and no spamming, this thread is to discuss and rate other people's animations.
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How To Work With Pivots FAQ: Made by Talksick
As many of you don't know what a pivot is, a pivot is a stick figure animation created by a program. You can kreate your own animation using pivot animator. If you want to know how to use pivot animator read this FAQ by me.
You can download the pivot animator at
http://sticksforfree.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/0/1/5101147/pivot_stickfigure_animator_3.1_beta.exe
Once you downloaded the program read the following FAQ:
1. open the program.
2. go to file, then create figure.
3. make yourself a stick man with a pivot point in the middle of the back and another for his neck to make the animations less robotic.
4. here is a list of what the buttons do from top to bottom.
-click on the line to make another line on the model.
-(same but with a circle)
-switches between the line and the circle.
-make the line or circle thinner or thicker.
-makes a copy of the highlighted part of the model.
-not quite sure what this does.
-deletes the highlighted part of the model.
5. once you have made a man save him as whatever, then add him to your animation by going to file of the window that you used to make him then click on add to animation.
6. when he is added to your animation you can delete the other(crappier) man by pressing delete. the other buttons are pretty self explanitory. the front and back buttons just make the highlighted object go to the front or back layer of all the objects.
7. now make yourself a background by using ms paint or something and make sure you have something for the ground so it is easier.
8. now load it up by going to file in the pivot program and clicking on load background, once you have found it click on it.
9. now depending on whether or not you background is dark colored or light colored use the opposite color scheme for the man.
10. make sure you don't use red or blue for your guys so you can see the pivot points easier.NOTE: you can go back and change their color at the end if you want.
11. position your first frame by moving the pivot points around and press next frame.
12. now move them slightly in whatever way you want then press next frame again.
13. once you have quite a few frames take a look at the animation by pressing play.
14. now if you want to fix frames just click on the one you want to fix, do so, then press next frame.
If you are using stick pivots, you can move them by clicking the dots on them. Drag the leg,arm,head and body anywhere you want. Then click on Next Frame, now move the arm again or any body part from the stick and click on next frame again...once you have done that click on the play button. It should now show a animation of your pivot.
Now, many of you want to use sprites, but some of you don't know what sprites are. A sprite a 2 dimensional graphic, used to represent an object in a game. You can get sprites from sprite web sites. But if you are looking for mortal kombat sprites, go to
http://www.mortalkombatwarehouse.com
Once you have found page full of sprites you can add them to your program, all you got to do is right click the Sprite you want and save it as .gif, once you have done that, go to your program and upload your sprites NOTE: YOU CAN ONLY UPLOAD SPRITES IF YOU DOWNLOAD THE PIVOT BETA 3 from msn groups. Use each set of sprites to create an animation.
Heres an example of what a Sprite animtion is:
http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com/skspear.gif
Here is a GREAT tutorial on sprites:
http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com/spritecomic-tutorial.html#sprites
Here is a site with MORE MK sprites:
http://www.angelfire.com/games5/unholy1/sprites/sprites.html
If you have questions, you can ask here. I will help you out.