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Advanced Animations in PowerPoint Vol. 1 - 6 next level animation walkthroughs to inspire you

teacher avatar Alan Lomer, POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:22

    • 2.

      Animated roller counter

      5:22

    • 3.

      Animated graph slider

      8:40

    • 4.

      Animated looping light

      7:08

    • 5.

      Animated custom transitions

      7:46

    • 6.

      Animated wiggly text

      11:43

    • 7.

      Animated snow fall

      9:45

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About This Class

Good animation can be a wonderful tool to enhance the clarity of your message!

This course contains 6 short walkthrough PowerPoint animation examples. Each one will provide you with understanding of a key animation feature that can be used to take your slide design to the next level.

All of the examples are included for download in the 'Resources' section. 

Some of the default animations used in PowerPoint can be worse than having no animation at all, but using animation that supports the content can bring your slides to life and engage your audience.

We will use the powerful morph transition to create a roller counter, and create an animated custom chart using motion paths.

I will show you how to create a looping light animation and output it to video and explain how multiple animations on individual letters can create a sketch style text effect.

You will learn to create your own custom transitions and we will finish by using custom motion paths and varied animation speeds to create a natural looking snowfall effect.

By the end of this course you will be able to apply the skills learnt to create animations that you would have previously thought impossible in PowerPoint. 

I hope you enjoy the class and please get in touch if you have any questions or suggestions. Thanks! Alan.

If you enjoy this class, please check out Advanced Animations Vol.1

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If you would like to check my other courses, please see:

Mastering Images In PowerPoint - A complete guide to creating beautiful slides using photos

Mastering Graphics In PowerPoint - Create stunning slides using shapes, drawing, 3d & illustrations.

Better charts and data visualisations in PowerPoint - Techniques to stand out when presenting data

Infographics in PowerPoint - Create high quality infographics in PowerPoint quickly and easily.

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Alan Lomer

POWERPOINT DESIGNER AND TEACHER

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Hi, I'm Alan and I am here to help you master PowerPoint. My goal is to help you take your presentations to the next level, engage your audience & get your message across with maximum impact.

Everything you need to create stunning presentations can be done inside PowerPoint and I am here to help you do this.

I have been designing for over 30 years and have helped hundreds of people and companies tell their story through slide presentations.

I will help you gain an understanding of presentation design skills that took me years to learn and develop.

Throughout the courses I will give you simple effective advice to help you design better presentations.

I hope you enjoy the courses.

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1. Introduction: Good animation can be a wonderful tool to enhance the clarity of your message. This course contains six short walk through PowerPoint animation examples. Each one will provide you with understanding of a key animation feature that can be used to take your slide design to the next level. Some of the default animations used in PowerPoint can be worse than having no animation at all. Using animation that support the content, you can bring your slides to life and engage your audience. We will use the powerful Morph transition to create a roller counter and create an animated custom charts using motion paths. I will show you how to create a looping animation and open it to video and explain how multiple animations on individual letters can create a sketch style text effect. You will learn to create your own custom transitions. And we will finish by using custom motion paths and varied animation speeds to create a natural looking snowfall. By the end of this course, you'll be able to apply the skills learned to create animations. You would have previously thought impossible in PowerPoint. 2. Animated roller counter: In example one, we will be creating this cool roller counter where you can count up and down to any number using duplicate background fill and the Morph transition. Firstly, we're going to jump out into the editor. I'm going to create a new slide, and I'm going to go to layout and choose blank. The first thing we'll do is just take this exact text because it's already got the color that I want to apply to it and the size. And I'm using Poppins font at 96 size. And to add the gradient, I went to Format Shape text options and chose gradient fill. I went from an orange to a blue at a 45-degree angle. So now I'm just going to go and get the percent text as well. Just going to paste that in. I'm going to make sure this is in the right place. And this is in the right place. That's our starting point. The next thing we need to do is actually put in all the numbers that we want to count two. We only have to do this once, but once they're in, we can reuse them if necessary. So I'm going to create a copy of this by holding Control and Shift. Now I'm going to type i1. I'm going to zoom out to about 40%. I'm just going to keep on doing this until I've got up to 21. Excellent. So now we've got all our numbers. And the one thing I need to do here is to select absolutely all of them. I'm going to de-select the other text. And I'm just going to make sure that the vertical distribution is correct, which is basically the space between each of the texts. Excellent. I'm now going to group them. I'm going to zoom back into my slide. Now. I need to add covers. And the reason I need to do this is so that when the numbers scroll up, you can't see them fly the page. So first of all, I click a rectangle and I'm going to put it there. Then this is gonna be the bottom cover. I'm going to make this white no outline. Then I'm going to use Control and Shift to make a copy of it off the top, aligned it to the top and put it exactly where it needs to go there. Now, if we view this slide full-screen, you can see it's got a cover to cover all the texts that we don't want to see. So now we just have to make sure that this is sent to back. The numbers are sent to back. And then we can see the faster than last year text over the top. And so this is the order we want. Now, we'll Control D to duplicate the slide. Then we go to transitions and make sure morphous selected. And then finally for this one, we want to select the text and move it up to the number we want to go to. I'm holding down Shift while I'm doing this to make sure it stays in the right place horizontally. So I'm gonna go to 20%. Then when I play from this slide and go to the next slide, we've got our roller counter and you can also go back quite a cool effect, I think. Now let's look at how we can add a background to that. So I'm just going to select both slides. Press Control D. Now, on the first slide, I'm going to right-click choose Format, background. I'm gonna go to picture or texture fill, insert stock images. I'm going to type abstract and select this one, which is the one I used in the example. So what that's done is it's made a slide background. And the reason this is so good is it means we can click on these white panels and we can choose slide background fill for those. And that will give us a seamless effect. I'm just going to go in and make this text white. Then I have two options. I can either control D to duplicate this slide and move it again. Or I can put the slide background onto these. In this example, I'm going to create the slide background again on this one, I'm gonna go to right-click Format Background. I'm going to choose picture or texture, fill, insert, stock, abstract, Insert. And then I'm going to click on the top panel slide background and the bottom panel slide background fill. Then finally, just select the text, make it white and play. Excellent. There you go. A really easy and simple and quick way to create a really dynamic motion effects directly inside PowerPoint. 3. Animated graph slider: In example two, I will show you how to create an animated custom charts using motion paths and Powerpoint graphics. So the first thing we're going to do is go to a new slide. We're going to start with a blank page. And we're gonna go to our shapes. And we're going to choose rectangle, rounded corners. And I'll just click anywhere here. Then we'll drag this out and make sure that the corners are wrapped fully rounded by dragging on the yellow handle. Now we'll right-click and choose Format Shape. And if we go to this Size and Properties section here and do the drop-down for size. We can see the height and width in here. And I'm going to type 1.28 because that's the height I want for these, for the width, I'm going to enter 20. And it's a good idea to do this to something that's rounded to ten, for example. And I'll show you why in a minute. So either ten or 20 will be good. Now I'm just going to send to this and then make it a gray color. I'm going to make shape, outline, no outline. So there's our first bar. And I'm going to show you an easy way to make the first color fill. If you click on this and hold down control and shift and drag, this is gonna be our color, but I'm just going to separate it to make it easy to work with for now. I'm just going to fill it in something like this. Blue will be fine. Now, in this example, I'm gonna be making three percentages, 704080. As I mentioned before, it's a really good idea to do the width where it's rounded to a ten, because 70 per cent would be 14, which is easy to work out. I'm now going to hold down Shift and drag this back up. You'll see the guidelines appear to show you that it's completely locked on. I'm now going to create a circle that goes on top. Going to make sure it's got the same shape fill and the same shape outline. And then I'm going to type 70%. I'm going to make this Poppins bold and 24. Then I'm going to make sure that this doesn't wrap by pressing Format Shape. Going to the textbox options and turning off Wrap Text in shape. Excellent, We're getting close. I'm now going to drag this over the top. You will see that when I'm halfway up, one of the guidelines will appear. When I'm right on the halfway point of the end of the blue, the other guideline appears. So this is exactly where we want it. Now, we can add the animation and then we'll create the other parts. So the first animation we need to do is this blue part will go to animations. And we'll choose wipe. And then we'll go to effect options and choose from left. We can adjust the timing after we've moved this circle here. The first thing we want to do with this is AB animation line. Then we want to make it go the correct way. Then we want to choose Reverse Path Direction from these options. Pretty close. Now we just need to click on this green triangle, turns into a red dot and you hold down shift. And we can drag this to start position. So if we play this, you'll see that it'll start there. This will wipe up and then it will move. So we're pretty close. We just need to make a few tiny adjustments in the animation pane. So firstly, we'll click on this and say we want it to with the previous thing. But we also need to add a fade, otherwise it will appear to start with. So if we go to Add animation fade, we then want to say the fade is with previous. And we want to make sure that the effect of wiping this from left to right is the same as this moving from left to right. So the time needs to match. We'll drag this down to here. And this here is the motion path to move it from the left. So now we just have to get the duration of both of the animations about the same. I'm going to make the rounded rectangle wiping from left to right a little bit slower, say 1.5 seconds. And let's see how that looks. Just going to turn off the smooth end and start. In the effects settings of the motion path. Really good. Now we're just going to create the other ones, which we can do by copying this and making a few changes, which should be a nice simple way. Now you've done the complicated stuff. You can reuse this effect as needed. So I'm going to create two more bars. One with 41, with 80 per cent on it. So I'm just going to select everything here. I'm going to press Control and Shift as I drag it down. This is going to be my second bar, which is going to be 40 per cent. And we're going to make this green. Nice simple color to make it easy. I'm going to make this screen. We just need to change the width of this. And we do that as we did before by clicking on format, shape, size, and position. And now we'll type in what 40% of 20 would be, which is eight. There we go. Nice and easy to get an exact position. And now we'll hold down shift as we drag this. And you can see that the guide will come up in the right place. Excellent. Now we need to make this happen a little bit quicker because it's only going up to 40 per cent in comparison with 70 per cent. So I'm going to click on this. I'm gonna go to animations. And I'm going to make sure that this is on 1 second. And the motion path, I think about 0.75 might do. So. We now just have to drag the start point of the motion path. And we'll hit play. Excellent. Just the final one to go. So select all of them. Shifting control again. This one's going to be 80 per cent. Just set it to a different color. As before, we'll click Format, Shape, and choose the width, which for 80% would be 16 centimeters. Then we'll drag this and hold Shift. It will snap at the right position. This because it's a slightly higher number, would need a slightly longer time in the animation. So again, we'll go to Animations, Animation Pane. And I'm going to choose 1.75 for the duration here, and 1.5 for the duration on the motion path. One final thing to do there, we just need to drag the beginning position of the motion path. Right over to this side. There we go, 7040, 80% per cent. Some really great looking animated graph sliders that you can use in any presentation. And we've done the complicated work. And if you ever need to use these, you can just copy them out from the first version you did and easily change the colors and the numbers. 4. Animated looping light : In example three, we will use PowerPoint lines to create a circular looping light animation over multiple slides, and I'll put it to video. The first thing we're going to do is start on a blank slide. I have my three colors that I'm going to use for this animation. I'm just going to bring them into my blank slide and put them slightly off the slide just so that I can use them for reference. And the first thing we're going to do is draw the lines. So click line, click to reveal it. Make sure it's straight. I'm going to right-click on it and choose Format Shape. Now I'm going to make sure that the line is five-point wide. And I'm also going to make it ten centimeters. I'm now going to align it to the center. I'm going to go to the eyedropper tool and choose the color that I want. So for the lines that aren't lit up, it's going to be this dark red color. Now we're going to duplicate and rotate. So I'll press Control D, and I'll firstly rotate it by 90 degrees. Again, align it to the middle, Control D again. And I'm going to rotate this by 45 degrees and align it to the middle. And then Control D on this one. I'm going to rotate this by minus 45 degrees. Now finally align this to the middle, and this is the first part of our shape for this animation. I'm now going to select them all. Control G to group, Control, D to duplicate. I'm going to align this to the middle, which is over the top at the moment. Then I'm going to hold down Shift, which actually locks the rotation into 15 degree increments. I'm going to Control D again and again, hold down Shift to lock the rotation into 15 degree increments. So this is the first part of our shape. I'll right-click, choose Format, Background, solid fill, and eyedropper on the purple shape. I'm now going to click on oval. I'm not going to make sure this is also the purple shape. And make sure it has no outline. And this is going to be eight centimeters. We're going to align this to the center. There we've made the base of this graphic. Now we're going to make that lit up sections. Firstly, I'll select everything except the circle on the top, which I'll do shift click to deselect. I'm going to press Group. And I'm going to duplicate. Again. I'm going to align it to the middle. Now, I'm gonna make this bright color eye dropper. And the bright orange. We will need to get the purple circle back to the front. But before we do that, I'm just going to change some of these lines to give it the effect of the animating lights that we showed earlier. So I'm going to click once and then click a second time to select the line inside the group. And then I'm going to put this on five per cent transparency. I'm going to put this one on 10% transparency. I'm going to put this one on 2030. Just carry on going until I get to the bottom. 405060708090 and then 95. Now we're going to send this to the back by right-clicking center back. Then finally, we're going to send this to back. This should give us the exact layer order we need. So we can delete my color references as we don't need them anymore. We can delete the slide I came from. And this is gonna be the first slide now animation. And when I press Control D, Go to slide two. We're now going to click on this lit up section. And again, the magic part hold down Shift so it rotates by 15 degrees. We do need to make sure that transition is very quick. Whoa, I'm gonna give this something like naught point, naught one, and then make sure that after is selected. So after the duration of naught point, naught one, it will go to the next slide. Just going to zoom up the slides so you can see what we're dealing with here. Press Control D again. Rotate by holding down the Shift key. Very important. Control D again. Rotate. Controlled a very tight. Just keep going until we get right to the n, which will be 13 slides. So now when we play it from the start, will get one cycle of the animation. And then I'll show you how you can live with that. Looking good. So now we go to slideshow. We go setup slideshow, and we choose Loop continuously until escape. An okay. We just want to make sure that the very first slide there has got the after box texts and that it's down to naught point naught one. So that will match all the other slides. So now when we click play, excellent, the looping lit up circular animation looking good. Finally, there's a little bonus. Just show you how you can easily export this to a video. So we can go to file, we can go to Export. We can go to create a video. Then we can choose the resolution. Anything over ten ATP would be good. So either ATP or four K, then you can say Create Video. I can just go to my desktop and call it loading loop animation, start, Save. And now that's created an MP4 file that we can use easily and set up the loop in any presentation. So hope you enjoyed the video. I think it's a great way of learning these little tips and tricks. So you can make your own great looking animations in PowerPoint. 5. Animated custom transitions: Positions using inbuilt animations and PowerPoint shapes. We'll start with a new blank presentation. Go to New Blank. Right-click layout. Blank. I'm just going to paste in the colors that I'm going to use. The first custom slide transition, we're gonna be using the spin animation with two different shapes. Will firstly set the color of the background by right-clicking, choosing Format Background, solid fill. I'm going to use the eyedropper to pick this purple shape here. Great. Now we're going to add the two shapes. The first one will be a big rectangle. We're going to click on rectangle. Click anywhere on the page. Again, I'm going to pick the color. So I'm gonna go to the eyedropper and choose this. I'm going to make sure it has no outline. Now I'm going to go to the Size and Properties. Click to reveal the size. And I'm going to set this to 60 centimeters high by a 100 centimeters wide. So it's going to be pretty big, but it needs to be big enough to rotate across the page. I'm just going to zoom out slightly. Put this below my slide. There should be good. Then I'm going to go to animations. I'm going to choose spin which is here. Then I'm gonna go to animation pane. Double-click on this. You can see that it defaults to 360 degrees clockwise. But we want a core to spin or 90 degrees clockwise. And we also want a smooth end. So I'll just drag this all the way up. That's looking good. Just wanted to take it down to 1 second. And then we'll preview this. Pretty good. You can just say it needs to be a tiny bit bigger. So one way of doing that is to hold Control and Shift. You can see the shape expands as you drag it from the corner. And again, we'll just pull this down slightly below. Shift F5 to preview. Perfect. Now we'll add the other shape. For this. We're going to use a triangle. I'll hold down shift to expand it. Now, I'm going to pick the color and I'm going to use this light blue color here. And I'm going to turn off the outline. So no outline. I'm going to click on this little yellow dot and drag this over. Now, I've got the triangle that I want, and I'm just going to rotate it just so that it's flat on the screen. And then going to go to Format, Shape and make sure it's big enough. I want about 93 centimeters wide. It's looking good. I'm just going to drag this to the bottom again. For this animation, I'm going to use spin again. I'm going to get it to spin the other way. So if we go to animation pane, Double-click on the triangle. Choose Core to spin. But we'll also want to choose counterclockwise, so it spins the other way. We'll drag smooth end up again. Looking pretty good there. We just take it down to 1 second and we'll set start to be with previous. So it happens at the same time. Let's play that. Excellent. Just the effect I'm looking for. I'm now going to zoom in slightly and paste in the text that I had earlier. Show what we're doing, a custom slide transition using a spin animation. Let's see how that looks. Great. In this example. I think I want the triangle to be very slightly bigger. So I'll do the same thing again. Hold the corner, press Control Shift and drag. Excellent. There's the first custom slide transition. Now let's look at transition number two. So we'll right-click new slide. So you minimize it. Paste our colors that we're going to use. And now Format Background. Eyedropper, which is this purple. In this custom transition example, I'm gonna be using a grow animation on a circle. So I'm going to click on the circle, going to go to color, eye dropper. Click this pink. Now I'm going to size this up. I think I want it about 35 centimeters. To zoom out a bit. Put this off the side of the page. Make sure it's got no outline. And now we can add the animation, will go to animations. We'll click on our circle. Click Add animation. And we'll choose grow, slash, shrink. Us pretty close to ready. So what we want, we'll just double-click on this circle in the animation pane. I'm going to change the size to 200%. You must press Enter here, otherwise it won't save it. Then I'm going to drag up the end, make it as smooth and as usual. Pretty close. Just think we want a little bit quicker. So I'm going to click duration down to 1 second. Now, I'm going to play this. Great. So I'll just paste in the text. Play. That's great. So that is the custom slide transition using the Grow Shrink animation. The final example, we're gonna be using a zoom animation as before, we'll right-click, choose new slide. I'll paste in the colors I'm going to be using. Right-click Format Background. I'm going to choose the blue color, eyedropper, pick the blue. And now I'm going to create two circles that I'm going to use my Zoom animation transition. So as before, click on the circle, I'm going to choose the color eye dropper and this light blue. Again, make sure it's got no outline. And I want this to be quite big. I think about 41 centimeters should do. Then I'm going to align it. Align Middle, Align Center. That is now in the right place. To do the Zoom animation will go to animations and you can either choose Zoom if it's in there, we can go to Add animation and choose Zoom from here. So that's my first circle. I can now click on the circle, press Control D to duplicate it. Go to my color, choose the second color, which is this purple. Align it back in the middle and center. Because I've duplicated it, it will already have the Zoom on. But the one thing we will need to do is go to the animation pane. Sure, it starts with previous and put on a slight delay about a quarter of a second will do. That will give us the effect we're looking for. We'll just play from there. Excellent, looks, really good. So I'll just paste in my text. Play that. There we go. That's great. So three different ways of using animation to make your own custom slide transitions. And you can try out any of these using different shapes, different animations, and break out of the traditional transitions in PowerPoint and create your own unique style. 6. Animated wiggly text: In example five, we will be creating an organic, unique text effect of animated wobbly texts in a sketch style using multiple animations that repeat on individual letters. The first thing we'll do is go file new, blank, presentation, layout blank. The first thing I'm going to do is paste in my background slides that I've made earlier. These are just gradients. I'll show you how I set them up. Format Background, linear gradient, Two 125 degrees. I've just picked two nice colors to go from. If you wish to use these to start with, I'll put a link down in the description below where you can download the gradients PowerPoint file. So the first thing we need to do is create the first text item. And I'm gonna be using the font, ma'am, solver. Not gonna make it white. And I'm gonna make it 66 size. This is a Google font. And again, I'll put the link down below in the description for you to go straight to download it if you wish to use it. Hand-drawn fonts work best for this style. And I think this is a nice font to use for it. I'm now going to Control D to duplicate, type whatever I want into this. And then move and rotate as I feel is good, which is quite arbitrary. But whatever you think looks good. Because ultimately it's just meant to look like it's sketched out. So now we've got our basic words. I'm just going to add the animation to create the wiggly effect. And we can do this with two different animations. So we'll click on the M. And we'll add the first animation, which will be a teeter. Clicks go into the Animation Pane and double-click. We need to do a couple of things in here. We need to go to timing. I like to choose very fast and then repeat will choose until end of slide. So that's the first effect we're going to use. We're also going to add one more animation to that. So we'll click again. And to add an animation, it's important to press the Add Animation button because otherwise it will replace the Theta with whatever you choose. We're going to add Spin, which initially goes 360 degrees around and looks a bit odd on this particular animation. So I'll double-click on it, which is custom. We'll choose a couple of degrees. So say two will be fine for this and it's important to press Enter, so it saves it. The next thing we want to do is click auto reverse. Then again, we'll go into timing and we'll choose Repeat until end of slide. That's just going to carry on going until we go to the next slide. The auto reverse means it's going to rotate two degrees clockwise and then back to degrees anticlockwise. We need to make this a lot faster. It defaults to two seconds. I'm going to put it onto nought 0.25 seconds. And then start. I'm going to choose with previous. Everything on this will be with previous, so it will all happen at the same time. And we just need to make sure that the first animation happens with previous as well. Looking good. We're just going to add some similar animation to the other characters. And it won't be exactly the same because it will look too similar. We want it to have a nice kind of random effect to make it look good. On the y. I'm going to select Custom three degrees on this one, press enter auto reverse. Going to take the time down to something like nought 0.5. And I'm also going to put slight bounce and on it doesn't matter how much it is. And then start with previous. That just needs to be a bit faster. So I'll put it down to nought 0.25. We also need to turn on the repeat until end of slide. Okay? I'm going gonna make that a bit faster. Something like nought 0.1. Oh great. We'll just add something similar to the other letters. And then to make the next slides, we're just going to copy and make a few small changes to save us having to do all the animation again. So to add the animation to the S. We could just click on the M, click the animation painter, and then click on the S. Now I'm just going to make a couple of changes to it. Just for variation, I can select counterclockwise. I can type in four degrees and press Enter. Then maybe a smooth end or anything you choose is just to make it quite random. So that's looking pretty good. We're just preview that. And if we double-click the animation painter, we can apply it to all of these by clicking on each one. And now we can just go in, go into the spin, add some variation. So this one, we might have a two-degree clockwise spin. A bit of bounce end. On the O. We might have five degrees counterclockwise with a smooth start, six degrees on the r. And finally the y on this particular page. Just going to put at one degree press Shift F5 to preview that. Looking good. So let's create the other slides very quickly by copying these and making some very small adjustments. So I'm going to press Control a, selects them all. Control C, go into my other slide and Control V. Now going to quickly type in the new letters and move them as I go. And to create some variation, you can move them and rotate them slightly. You can also go in and adjust the animation if you feel you want to create some more randomness. Looking good. We're just put in the next three slides to finish off. Remember, Control a to select them all. Control C, gone to the next slide, and Control V. On this one, we need two other characters. I'm going to select them randomly from different places. So I'll select this one, this one. Then press Control D and drag them across. And again, you can add a bit of variation, bit of rotation. And we'll just roughly align these to the middle. Again, it doesn't have to be exact. You can group these and align them. Because if you group them, it will lose all the animation. But a little trick when you want to align a lot of things that are individual and have animation. I can just draw a rectangle that is the right size over these and align it to the middle. And Send to Back. You can see exactly where the middle is now. You can select them all and put them in exactly in the middle if you wish. Now, delete the rectangle. So that's a quick way of aligning multiple things to middle. If they've already got animation on individually, would just quickly put the text into the last couple of slides. That's great. We've just finally add the line that underlines these. And for this, we can choose a curve. I'll just roughly draw it in. We'll click on it, Format, Shape, change it to white, make it as thick as we want. It's probably about 5. I can also change the sketch style freehand for this. Then I'll go to Animations. Choose wipe, effect options, choose from left. Think I want it to have round ends as well to match the text. So I can choose Cap Type. You have three options in here and I'll choose round that puts it round at the end rather than squared. And then again, we'll add a tiny bit of movement to it. So we'll go to Add animation. Spin. Probably about a one degree will be good. Go to the animation pane, Double-click. Go to custom, one degree, press Enter, auto reverse. We want to make sure that it's pretty quick. So I'm going to put this down to nought 0.25. Then Shift-click to select both of these and choose with previous. Now everything will happen at the same time in this slide. The one thing we just need to add two here is to go to timing and repeat until end of slide. Excellent. So we're just play from the start. So there we've got our wiggly text in a cartoon style, and it just breaks out of the traditional PowerPoint and gives you an understanding of what you can do with a rather limited amount of built-in effects in PowerPoint. If you tweak them and adjust them to get the look that you're going for. 7. Animated snow fall: In example six, you will see how using custom motion path and varied animation speeds can create a natural looking snowfall effect. The first thing we're going to do, it's going to go to found new blank presentation, layout, blank and ask the snow will be white. Initially, the easiest way of working with it is just a right-click. Choose Format, Background, and pick a solid fill that something like a mid gray, just so we can see what we're working with. Now, let's create the snow. So we'll start with an oval and we'll just click to reveal it here. I want the size to be about point a to the first one. This is gonna be my biggest snow. Then I'm gonna go to Shape Fill. Choose white, and choose no outline. We'll go to effects soft edges and then make sure this is on about 5 should do. That's going to create a nice snow effect. And so I think the simplest way of animating this is to animate the first one and then make a few tweaks and change the size of the snow. The other bits of snow that are going to fall. Then I'm going to show you a great tip for how to make it keep looping and keep looking realistic. We're going to start with it near the top and I'll move attacked when I eventually finish, but start with it here for ease of use, will go to animations. We're going to use a motion path. That's a custom path, which means you can draw it in about four or five clicks. And that's our custom path. You can see the snows start to fall there. So when we play this as one thing, you'll notice straight away. It doesn't like it's falling very naturally because the edges are so sharp of the animation. So we can right-click on this and choose Edit Points. Then if you right-click on one of the points, you can choose smooth point. And we're going to apply this to all of the points. So now when we clicked to adjust, we can make certain bits longer. We can move them about by dragging them. We can change the curve by using these corner handles here. I'm going to click off the whole thing to move the actual animation up. The snow up, because it will be starting at the top of the page. And I want it to ideally finish near the bottom of the page. When I play this, it's going to look a little more realistic. The next thing we need to do is slow it right down. And for these, I'd imagine somewhere between 1020 seconds for most of the snowfall will look pretty good. So I can change the duration of this. I'll set this to ten seconds and then play it from there. Starting to look pretty good. I'm just going to squash this end. Moves less to the left and right. I'm just picking up the handles to do this. If you ever want to get rid of any of these points, you can either right-click on them and choose Delete Point, or you can hold down the Control key, click on them and that will delete them. What we're going to do is when we create the others will create a little variation. But I think this one is good enough to go now. So here's our first falling snow. Now we can click on this, press Duplicate and then drag it. It will have the path with it. We're gonna go to the size of the snow. And this will be a smaller piece of snow. So you might do it at 0.6. And I'm also going to click on it and pull it a little bit higher. Then we'll edit the path. Just so it looks slightly different as it falls. Which when we copy a lot of them, will make a big difference, especially as we change the speed as well. You could just randomly drag bits of this, but just don't make it too drastic, otherwise it will look odd. So now there'll be two bits of snow falling. And if we go to the Animation Pane, we want to make sure that these all will happen with previous. So that will happen together. And if we click on the second one and change the duration to 20 seconds, it will fall a lot slower. So just preview that. What we wanted to do now is when it hits what's going to be the ground near the bottom. We want it to evaporate effectively disappear, and start again. This will create quite unnatural looking rotation of the snow because everything will be staggered when we do this separate going to double-click on the first oval and the animation pane. And then we'll go to timing and make sure that repeat is until end of slide. And we'll apply that to the second oval as well. Timing, repeat end of slide. So now when we play the first one hits the bottom, it'll disappear and replay again. It's looking good already. So I'm going to duplicate a few. I'm going to change the duration, probably making them between a few and 20 seconds. And then we'll make a few edits to the path. And then we'll have something looking pretty good. Then we'll add our backgrounded. So Control D to duplicate one of these. I'm just going to make it a different size. Say no 0.7 on this one. Just going to click on the path and hit Edit Points. So you right-click on the path. Edit points. This will allow me to make something that looks different to the other two. Again, doesn't matter too much, as long as it's nothing too drastic. Just zoom out a tiny bit. Will probably want about 15 of these will probably look good. So I'm just swiping over them and selecting them and pressing Duplicate to copy them into different places. Some will be higher, some will be lower. Just creates a random snowfall effect. As long as the start position of all of them is slightly higher than the top of the screen. All should be good. Now I think I've probably got enough of them. Just going to click on a couple of these points to change the direction. Again, right-click Edit Points and you can just change the direction there. Now if we play, they'll look pretty good. But all the times will either be ten or 20 seconds because that's how we did the first two. See they fall to uniformly. So all we need to do is go in and make sure they all fall at different time. Once we've got that will be nearly there. So I'm just going to randomly put these on anytime starting at about eight seconds. An ending that's about 20 seconds, that'll be the highest point. Doesn't really matter what any of these are on. Ideally, they should all be a slightly different time. So let's see how that looks. Pretty good. So we'll just get the background in. Right-click on the background. Choose Format, Background, picture or texture, fill. Insert stock images. Type in snow. There's the background I chose for this example. I think it looks really good. And then let's preview that. Excellent. There we go. A nice-looking non-uniform snow falling affects directly in PowerPoint. And there was a couple of really good principles that we took from that. One of them being that you can right-click on motion path, smooth it, or add or remove points to customize it just as you want. The other is that you can go into timing on the effect and repeat until end of slide. And the fact that I made these all different times means that the way they rotate and keep looping, it keeps it looking interesting and nothing's too uniform. So I really liked this effect.