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Animate Visual Dividers

Using the previous post’s sample, here is how I set up the animation on the slide.

Here is the sample slide:

Here is the Animation Pane for the slide:

1. Text Box = Entrance animation – Expand – On-click (for each level) – Fast
2. Divider Lines = Entrance animation – Fade – With Previous – Fast
3. Drag 1st lines animation under 2nd line (2nd animation). So it fades in as the 2nd line of text expands.

Done!

The animated sample slide can be downloaded here (47K ).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-16T11:55:25-07:00March 28th, 2010|Tutorial|

Zoom and Pan Animation Sample (Hockey)

Living in Southern California, Hockey is not really a focus for me. But with the excitement of the Winter Olympics hockey match up I was inspired to create this animation example. A popular animation effect used in recently (especially in commercials) is a zoom and pan where the background stays in place and key elements slowly lift and move to create depth and motion from a static image. The effect is not difficult in video or PowerPoint, it just requires a lot of prep work.

Here is my original image:

In Photoshop I dropped out the background and saved it as a .png:

I also created a background only version in Photoshop, where I ‘erased’ our hockey player from the image:

Then in PowerPoint I inserted 2 images; the hockey player and the blank background. Then applied the zoom and pan animation (grow/shrink 120% and motion path) to the hockey player image.

The result is a subtle motion to the slide that adds a nice polish and depth to what would be just a standard slide. Download the sample slide here (1.14MB ).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-16T11:57:12-07:00March 20th, 2010|Tutorial|

#10 – Animation Painter

Okay, this one is great! Actually, I have enjoyed this function since PPT XP thanks to the PPTXtreme Edit add-in. The Animation Painter makes my top 10 because it is that much of a needed feature and will be used by everyone.

Here are my sample shapes that I want to animate:

I setup the first image (square) with a complex animation that involves 3 animations all set WITH PREVIOUS for a dynamic entrance.

The Animation Painter works like the Format Painter. Select an object with an animation, click the Animation Painter, and apply that animation to any other object – on any slide.

I want the same animated entrance for the circle, but do not need to spend the time applying the 3 animations and setting their attributes. Now I:
1. select the square
2. select the Animation Painter
3. Select the circle
4. click the animation painter again and all of the animations are set!

As a side note: You know you are running pre-beta software when the buttons do not have icons, but a generic dot….

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T09:19:02-07:00November 22nd, 2009|Resource/Misc, Tutorial|

PowerPoint 2010 – #1 PERFORMANCE!

My top request, hope, begging was for slideshow performance. Bobby at Microsoft reassured me for more than a year all my animations would run great – and they do!

PPT 2010 Slideshow Performance
(This is a sample presentation I created that uses very fast transitions, complex animations and a non-stop pace for 5 minutes. Runs perfect every time! Blog sample is a low res .gif movie)

So my #1 feature of PowerPoint 2010 is a bit intangible, but easily seen and that is the slideshow performance is great. Transitions occur when you click the advance button. Animations run instantly and without stuttering. And all of this is while running the pre-beta version on a very small laptop with a 64MB graphics card, 1.5 GB of ram and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4 CPU.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T09:23:49-07:00November 4th, 2009|PowerPoint|

Blast Off! An Animated Slide

For a recent project a slide needed show the sales team activity was “Blasting Off” (as in super productive). This is the animation Lori developed, minus some corporate logos and text. We tend to stay away from “clip art” but in this case it worked with the message, the presentation visuals and the speaker’s style. Download the slide here.

Clip Art Animated Rocket Ship

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T09:34:19-07:00October 8th, 2009|Portfolio|

Slot Machine Animation

I am continuously wanting to share my presentation work, but continuously held back by the fact that client files are not released. So I pulled from recent projects a dozen dynamic animated slides, ‘cleaned’ them of all client reference and will be posting them for download!

Here is a really fun animated slide that uses only PPT animations and images prepp’d in Photoshop to create the slot machine effect.

PPT Animated Slot Machine

Download the full PowerPoint 2007 file, that has sound and all animations accessible with this link (.pptx and 650K)

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:02:51-07:00July 27th, 2009|Portfolio|

PPT 2007 “Text Animations” Template Deck

Animation is one of my strong points and this template presentation has some great ones!

The Text Animations deck on Office Online has 20 slides of text animations – each with step-by-step instructions on how to recreate these great effects.

It is also good to note that most of the animation effects can also be applied to other objects such as autoshapes or inserted images!

Click here to go to the MS Office Online page to download.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:14:41-07:00December 17th, 2008|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

Entrance Animation (Lens – Part 3)

The animation for this entrance is very straight forward. There are 3 elements:

And there are just 3 animations, each an entrance animation.

1. Lens = Ascend, Fast

2. Reflection = Wipe – From Top, With Previous (but mannually adjusted to begin 9/10th of a second after the lens (set to 0.9), and Fast

3. Lens Flair = Fade, With Previous, Medium

That’s it. All of the effort was really done outside PPT, in Photoshop. Once the elements where one the slide it was pretty easy to apply the few needed animations.

Click here to download a presentation (saved as a .ppt) to see this animated entrance in more detail.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:27:23-07:00October 10th, 2008|Tutorial|

Entrance Animation (Lens – Part 1)

I have a multipost sample outlining how an animated entrance was created. For today, you can use this link to view a screen capture of the actual animation (really need to figure out how to embed video into the blog…).

To view click here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T12:28:25-07:00October 6th, 2008|Tutorial|
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