You can create the illusion of growth and motion using the technique of frame animation. Frame animation duplicates the same object in slightly different positions or sizes and then quickly displays one after the other. This is how old-fashioned movie animation was done. Remember, though, that this process was very labor-intensive. Good animation is [...]
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Bulleted text elicits a lot of animated, opinionated discussion. I’ve covered the pros and cons of bulleted text and provided some tips for working with, or without, them: * Quickly get rid of bullets * Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points Sometimes, you can’t think of a way to avoid bullets. So, how do you [...] A while ago, I asked my subscribers what they want from this site, and the responses were contradictory. Some of you wanted basics and others wanted advanced techniques. In this tutorial, I’ll provide a basic tutorial of animation along with best practices that even advanced users should find valuable. Happily, animation in PowerPoint [...] You can make an object seem to disappear behind another object, or appear from behind that object. This effect creates a 3D impression and seems quite magical. In order for this to work, you need to create the appearance of a 3D environment that your object can disappear behind. This takes some experimentation. [...] As the co-author of Flash For Dummies, I’m always looking for ways to do in PowerPoint the kind of animation that you can do in Flash. Flash has more sophisticated animation tools, but you can often create surprisingly good results in PowerPoint. This animation was inspired by Nancy Duarte’s book, slide:ology. In Chapter 9, [...] A subscriber asked me to write up some text animation techniques, so here are two that you might like to use. These work best when the text plays center screen and your slide doesn’t contain too much else. You wouldn’t use these techniques a lot, or with too much text. Fade in variations [...] Sometimes, you just have too much information to display on a slide, but you don’t need all of it there at one time. An interesting use of the Hide on Next Mouse Click feature, one of the After Animation options, is to display text, hide it, and then display new text in the same [...] You may find it useful to animate the elements of a chart or table. For example, you may want to discuss sales of one product throughout all the quarters of the year before going on to the next product. Or you may want to explain a table row by row. To add animation to [...] |
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