I'm seeing a lot of PIVOT animations lately. Is it a lot easier than flash? Can you create SWF files with it? And most importantly, is this the closest thing available for Mac?
It's a frame-by-frame animator, so I suppose it's a bit easier, but sometimes more time consuming than making flash animations, what with all the available tools that come with Flash. No, you can't create .swfs with it, only the standard .pivs, and .gifs for uploads and such. And that does look pretty close to Pivot. Can you import .jpegs and .bmps into the program for use as sprites? Or is there a built in function for creating objects?
Oh, and @the animation... Is that the Fusion swords or the Buster I see? They look similar, so it's hard to tell :/