The program is fun and easy to use, takes practice - of course. It is fairly basic as far as animations go. Once you've mastered Pivot you can easily make adobe flash animations and such. It could have used more features like being able to change and size backgrounds but all in all its fine. Who wouldn't like to create and customize their own stick figures? That's just cool. The idea of simple stick figures making animations and stuff is a weird concept but it all works. Needed skills to use Pivot well are patience, creativity and a good hand. Personally i love this program - i have currently made over 20 animations and over 100 custom figures. Don't worry, if you don't want to make your own figures, Pivot supplies you with a few and you can download sticks too. Verdict: The new stuff is all great but, sometimes the most basic animator of all is possibly the greatest.