Some amazing results can be achieved by using PowerPoint creatively. This slide developed by the TLC Creative Services design team is a great example.

To develop this slide, we started with this mountain range image.

Then, we used PowerPoint’s Remove Background feature to eliminate the sky area.

Then we searched VideoBlocks for a timelapse clouds video and selected this video.

By positioning the video behind the mountain range image, we did not worry about the green grass and horizon (they are still there in the above slide, but hidden by the mountain).

Last step was adding the stylized text. Complete!

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Amber, on the TLC Creative design team, loves Adobe Illustrator and PowerPoint. We challenged her to build a full vector illustration in PowerPoint. The result is an amazing Thanksgiving cornucopia!

• 478 slides
• Everything about the cornucopia (took me 3 times to get that spelled correct!) developed inside PowerPoint
• Exported as a video with no transition and .01 second timing to create the stop motion animation effect

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family!

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Continuing from the last post, here is the same timeline, more traditional transitions and on-slide animations. See below for examples of animated timelines using pan and wipe transitions.

Like the previous timelines, both of these effects use the same 9 slides (with slide #1 being the info/title slide).

Unlike the Morph transition timelines, both of these effects have no content off slide, but do have a number of animations on each slide.

Pan From Left Transition (+ on-slide animations)

Wipe From Left Transition (+ on-slide animations)

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This is a demo of using the Morph transition to achieve a great visually animated style. This is also a real client project, with all details cleansed for public viewing. We used 2 different Morph transition options to achieve different visual effects so we could show the same timeline twice during the meeting with different animation styles (Full disclosure: Each Morph option needed different slide layouts for the effect to work, which is detailed below). The key to these animated timelines is there are NO animations used anywhere on the slides, all motion is achieved solely with PowerPoint’s Morph transition effect.

Option 1: Morph by Character

The slide deck is 9 slides (slide #1 being the info/title slate).

To achieve the motion effects, the transition for each slide is Morph > By Character and 1 element off-slide (that animates into place on the next slide)

Option 2: Morph by Object

The slide deck is also 9 slides (slide #1 being the info/title slate).

But the off-slide content (that animates into place on the next slide) planning and layout is more extensive for this visual effect.

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For this project, we developed wonderful, stylized, information slides – over 150 in the final Sales Deck. For this blog post, I am pulling one example of 2 timeline layout options where our design team provided slides showing different ways to layout the provided content.

In this case, we did not completely understand the intent of the slide so developed the timeline with two different layout styles, each supporting a different visual message. Our client provided input on the intent, we modified one option and moved on to the next layout question.

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Wanda on the TLC Creative design team created this amazing PowerPoint Halloween Movie. Just like a movie plot, it has 3 scenes. Each is a slide, and each seamlessly transitions from one to another (watch the video, there is no clear distinction of when the action transitions from one slide to another!).

If you are at the office, caution – fun Halloween themed soundtrack accompanies the animation fun!

Each slide has a very long animation pane. This is the top part of the slide 1 animation:

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“Ultrawide” presentations are any aspect ratio wider than the standard 16×9. For this project, the specs were a 2 projector blend (with 240 pixel edge blending) for the General Session.

2 screens wide, designed as a single ultrawide template, with 6 background variations (different for each presenter/division). 

Note: Portfolio example only, template and presentation files not available for download.

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Ultrawide General Session shows tend to involve more planning and design considerations for things like 16×9 PIPs (for video and standard widescreen presentations). Presentations that use the full canvas also have many design considerations to look great for the audience. Here is one look of a ultrawide presentation template that TLC Creative developed for a recent show.

3 screens wide, designed as a single ultrawide template with design consideration for outside 4×3 IMAG PIPs (live camera of the presenter). 

Note: Portfolio example only, template and presentation files not available for download.

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Yet another example from one of TLC Creative’s recent show projects – an ultrawide 5 projector awards show presentation template.

The meeting provided us with a fantastic 5 screen wide canvas, all designed as a single ultrawide presentation.

Note: Portfolio example only, template and presentation files not available for download.

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Another example from one of TLC Creative’s recent show projects – an ultrawide awards presentation template.

3 screens wide, designed as a single ultrawide presentation with presentation design on a seamless connected 16×9 center projection area.

Note: Portfolio example only, template and presentation files not available for download.

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