November 17th 2006:
Pivot Stick Figure Showcase is created by JasonV00rhees on Newgrounds
Jason has since vanished from newgrounds, posting only 2 more times afterwards both were not a follow up to the pivot thread.
After the initial creation it was forgoten, with no posts, and no mention was so ever, disapearing among the pages of the newgrounds art forum.
December 19th 2006:
Stikkilla revived the thread, almost exactly 1 month later. The second post on the entire thread is made. Stikkilla still posts today on newgrounds, however he seems to have moved on to stick flashes, and hasn’t really come back to the pivot thread. You can view his flashes here:
http://stikkilla.newgrounds.com/flash/
After a few posts, the thread was once again forgotten. This time for much longer.
February 5th 2007:
2 months later the pivot thread is again revived, this time by S-S-X (relation to SSX here, I’m not too sure, but I don’t think so).
This time the thread stays active quite frequently by mostly posts from Monkey-Boy http://monkey-boy.newgrounds.com/ and PaperLuigi http://paperluigi.newgrounds.com/
After the odd sprout of activeness, for the third time the pivot thread hits a dry spell, this time longer than both dry spells combined.
June 9th 2007:
4 months after the Pivot Stick Figure Showcase’s last post. It is once again bumped back to life. This time, the thread stays active for the rest of its days (until its lock years later)
Memerable users to join the forum at this time.
Blob – contributer of the first collab http://blob1994.newgrounds.com/
Flameflame12121 http://flameflame12121.newgrounds.com/ Last posted not too long ago.
Acidsnowball10 http://acidsnowball10.newgrounds.com/
Early July 2007:
Memerable Active Members:
Flameflame12121
Acidsnowball10
Gothclawz http://gothclawz.newgrounds.com/ still considered a douche all around
July 28th 2007:
To me this was a history defining moment in the pivot thread history. On this day pivot was shown for what it really was, and what it’s full potential could be. Limped http://limped.newgrounds.com/ made his debut appearance in the pivot showcase this day. Not only was he the best pivoter to post in the forum at that time, but he’s arguably one of the best pivoters of that generation. Limped’s retired now, but he was a true inspiration to almost every pivoter in the Showcase. I for one used him as a standard to reach. It was a key moment for newer and brighter talent to come pouring into the Showcase.
July 30th 2007
Not too longer after Limped appearance, a growing pivot Icon made his pivot debut. Ape4 http://ape4.newgrounds.com/ who is currently an administrator of Framerate made his first posts on this day. A little nooblet then, is now considered a high quality pivoter of this generation.
Early August 2007:
Memerable active users to date:
Flameflame12121
Acidsnowball10
Lonewolf(aka Wolfmaydie) http://wolfmaydie.newgrounds.com/ makes his pivot debut
Ape4
Gothclawz
blob
Wolf joins around this time. Also a current admin of the forum. Known as Lonewolf back then. Sadly hes was tricked out of his old account after a while. (sorry wolf)
“i got an idea why dont we like have a topic and then make a flash collabo but everyone does one scene for the flash yknow just an idea” – acidsnowball August 13th 2007
I actually found this recently going through all the old pages. Seems to me this was one of the first mentions of a collab.
August 20th 2007:
Yeah http://www.freepowerboards.com/expectit/
The first ever forum created from the pivot thread. Founder Paan(Yes that douche). His first post can be found here. http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/606606/17
You’ll notice he was still an ass in his introductions aswell.
Aaaannnnyywayyy
Blob1994 returns around this time aswell.
August 25th 2007:
Ngmasta http://ngmastah.newgrounds.com/ makes his first appearance. Another admin to the forums, as well as Killers123 http://killers123.newgrounds.com/
Nearing the end of August, more chatter about a Pivot Collab, but nothing really getting off the ground.
September 6th 2007:
SSX http://ssxorcist15.newgrounds.com/ makes his appearance. This one I’m sure is him lol.
Through the month of September I don’t recall seeing any mention of a Pivot Collab.
September 13th 2007:
An attempt at making a pivot crew is tried and failed. The thread in C&C was considered deleted. This was around the time where it was clearly evident Pivot was unwanted at newgrounds. Infact there was even talk about a possible locking of the thread.
September 23rd 2007:
TheReno http://thereno.newgrounds.com/ joins. This user was quite a handful in terms of annoyance. I’ll get on to this later. Anyway he joins.
5 days later Jolly-Rodger joins. His pivots weren’t very good, but he was an entertaining guy none the less. Most his pivots were of sexual nature. I think I liked it most because it probably bothered Paan.
October 1st 2007:
Limped makes his final appearances. It definitely got some inspiration going. He also introduced Darkdemon.org to the thread.
October 3rd 2007:
Hijackreaper http://hijackreaper.newgrounds.com/ joins who is also a current moderator of the forums.
October 6th 2007:
I join the pivot thread. I came in a couple months late compared to the many originals, but again this was still well over a year ago, and I was as an over ego’d asshole back then. Technically I still am now, but for totally different reasons now
Around this time, the Collab seemed a little more underway. Or at least by this time rules and guidelines were set. For me I was just another one of the guys that wanted to make an entry. I think all of us really just wanted a submission under our belt.
October 7th 2007
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/404067
I’m not going to call this a failed collab. Because in fact the whole thing was made without permission from any of the users. This flash was blamed. I’m not even sure if pivots were in it, but it didn’t make it through the portal. I believe ape and a few others were co-authored to this flash. But beyond that I don’t have much information on this.
All and all the person to blame for this mishap is cmeister http://cmeister.newgrounds.com/
At this time he seemed to be the appointed flasher.
October 9th 2007:
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/14/14239000/ngbbs470c1a47546e5.jpg
One of Wolfs first famous stick designs is made. This particular stick was quite popular for a while.
Soon after talk about a collab died out. Every once and a while it would be brought up. Mostly everyone was busy dishing out pivots. Infact we’d increase probably 5 pages a day.
List of Users looking to participate at that time: Courtesy of ape.
Paan
Acidsnowball
Wolfmaydie
1Ghost2
conAtron
Hijackreaper
Narf109
Killers123
Cmister
Ape
October 17th 2007:
The first ever Narf tutorial:
TheReno: “Can you tell me how to get that ground shakey feeling?”
Narf: “create a stick with a decent thickness, enlarge it as your floor, and move it up and down between frames. Make sure the characters move with the ground, or it wont look right. Also this effect can be applied after your base animation is finished. Focus on the animation first then go into the effects.”
October 18th 2007:
Random Santa http://randomsanta.newgrounds.com/ make his first appearance
October 27th 2007:
Flippy is born. This then resulted in the many flippy attacks throughout the thread.
Flippies ownages:
Pivot Stick Figure Showcase is created by JasonV00rhees on Newgrounds
Jason has since vanished from newgrounds, posting only 2 more times afterwards both were not a follow up to the pivot thread.
After the initial creation it was forgoten, with no posts, and no mention was so ever, disapearing among the pages of the newgrounds art forum.
December 19th 2006:
Stikkilla revived the thread, almost exactly 1 month later. The second post on the entire thread is made. Stikkilla still posts today on newgrounds, however he seems to have moved on to stick flashes, and hasn’t really come back to the pivot thread. You can view his flashes here:
http://stikkilla.newgrounds.com/flash/
After a few posts, the thread was once again forgotten. This time for much longer.
February 5th 2007:
2 months later the pivot thread is again revived, this time by S-S-X (relation to SSX here, I’m not too sure, but I don’t think so).
This time the thread stays active quite frequently by mostly posts from Monkey-Boy http://monkey-boy.newgrounds.com/ and PaperLuigi http://paperluigi.newgrounds.com/
After the odd sprout of activeness, for the third time the pivot thread hits a dry spell, this time longer than both dry spells combined.
June 9th 2007:
4 months after the Pivot Stick Figure Showcase’s last post. It is once again bumped back to life. This time, the thread stays active for the rest of its days (until its lock years later)
Memerable users to join the forum at this time.
Blob – contributer of the first collab http://blob1994.newgrounds.com/
Flameflame12121 http://flameflame12121.newgrounds.com/ Last posted not too long ago.
Acidsnowball10 http://acidsnowball10.newgrounds.com/
Early July 2007:
Memerable Active Members:
Flameflame12121
Acidsnowball10
Gothclawz http://gothclawz.newgrounds.com/ still considered a douche all around
July 28th 2007:
To me this was a history defining moment in the pivot thread history. On this day pivot was shown for what it really was, and what it’s full potential could be. Limped http://limped.newgrounds.com/ made his debut appearance in the pivot showcase this day. Not only was he the best pivoter to post in the forum at that time, but he’s arguably one of the best pivoters of that generation. Limped’s retired now, but he was a true inspiration to almost every pivoter in the Showcase. I for one used him as a standard to reach. It was a key moment for newer and brighter talent to come pouring into the Showcase.
July 30th 2007
Not too longer after Limped appearance, a growing pivot Icon made his pivot debut. Ape4 http://ape4.newgrounds.com/ who is currently an administrator of Framerate made his first posts on this day. A little nooblet then, is now considered a high quality pivoter of this generation.
Early August 2007:
Memerable active users to date:
Flameflame12121
Acidsnowball10
Lonewolf(aka Wolfmaydie) http://wolfmaydie.newgrounds.com/ makes his pivot debut
Ape4
Gothclawz
blob
Wolf joins around this time. Also a current admin of the forum. Known as Lonewolf back then. Sadly hes was tricked out of his old account after a while. (sorry wolf)
“i got an idea why dont we like have a topic and then make a flash collabo but everyone does one scene for the flash yknow just an idea” – acidsnowball August 13th 2007
I actually found this recently going through all the old pages. Seems to me this was one of the first mentions of a collab.
August 20th 2007:
Yeah http://www.freepowerboards.com/expectit/
The first ever forum created from the pivot thread. Founder Paan(Yes that douche). His first post can be found here. http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/606606/17
You’ll notice he was still an ass in his introductions aswell.
Aaaannnnyywayyy
Blob1994 returns around this time aswell.
August 25th 2007:
Ngmasta http://ngmastah.newgrounds.com/ makes his first appearance. Another admin to the forums, as well as Killers123 http://killers123.newgrounds.com/
Nearing the end of August, more chatter about a Pivot Collab, but nothing really getting off the ground.
September 6th 2007:
SSX http://ssxorcist15.newgrounds.com/ makes his appearance. This one I’m sure is him lol.
Through the month of September I don’t recall seeing any mention of a Pivot Collab.
September 13th 2007:
An attempt at making a pivot crew is tried and failed. The thread in C&C was considered deleted. This was around the time where it was clearly evident Pivot was unwanted at newgrounds. Infact there was even talk about a possible locking of the thread.
September 23rd 2007:
TheReno http://thereno.newgrounds.com/ joins. This user was quite a handful in terms of annoyance. I’ll get on to this later. Anyway he joins.
5 days later Jolly-Rodger joins. His pivots weren’t very good, but he was an entertaining guy none the less. Most his pivots were of sexual nature. I think I liked it most because it probably bothered Paan.
October 1st 2007:
Limped makes his final appearances. It definitely got some inspiration going. He also introduced Darkdemon.org to the thread.
October 3rd 2007:
Hijackreaper http://hijackreaper.newgrounds.com/ joins who is also a current moderator of the forums.
October 6th 2007:
I join the pivot thread. I came in a couple months late compared to the many originals, but again this was still well over a year ago, and I was as an over ego’d asshole back then. Technically I still am now, but for totally different reasons now
Around this time, the Collab seemed a little more underway. Or at least by this time rules and guidelines were set. For me I was just another one of the guys that wanted to make an entry. I think all of us really just wanted a submission under our belt.
October 7th 2007
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/404067
I’m not going to call this a failed collab. Because in fact the whole thing was made without permission from any of the users. This flash was blamed. I’m not even sure if pivots were in it, but it didn’t make it through the portal. I believe ape and a few others were co-authored to this flash. But beyond that I don’t have much information on this.
All and all the person to blame for this mishap is cmeister http://cmeister.newgrounds.com/
At this time he seemed to be the appointed flasher.
October 9th 2007:
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/14/14239000/ngbbs470c1a47546e5.jpg
One of Wolfs first famous stick designs is made. This particular stick was quite popular for a while.
Soon after talk about a collab died out. Every once and a while it would be brought up. Mostly everyone was busy dishing out pivots. Infact we’d increase probably 5 pages a day.
List of Users looking to participate at that time: Courtesy of ape.
Paan
Acidsnowball
Wolfmaydie
1Ghost2
conAtron
Hijackreaper
Narf109
Killers123
Cmister
Ape
October 17th 2007:
The first ever Narf tutorial:
TheReno: “Can you tell me how to get that ground shakey feeling?”
Narf: “create a stick with a decent thickness, enlarge it as your floor, and move it up and down between frames. Make sure the characters move with the ground, or it wont look right. Also this effect can be applied after your base animation is finished. Focus on the animation first then go into the effects.”
October 18th 2007:
Random Santa http://randomsanta.newgrounds.com/ make his first appearance
October 27th 2007:
Flippy is born. This then resulted in the many flippy attacks throughout the thread.
Flippies ownages:
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