Beginner Motion Graphics in PowerPoint

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to this course on creating motion graphics using PowerPoint. My name is Ben Nielsen and I will be your instructor for this course. I'm immediate design educator who teaches classes on many different types of media design, including graphic design, video editing, and motion graphics. I'm excited to dive into this course with you to learn all about the powerful tools available for motion graphics creation inside a PowerPoint, a tool that most people already have on their computers. We'll be going over ways of doing basic as well as advanced animation in PowerPoint, as well as using transitions between slides to create animations. We'll also go over things like how do you shapes and icons to create your graphics, and how to use PowerPoint to create the voice-over, as well as how to export that PowerPoint into a video that you can actually use later. I hope you're excited as I am. So let's dive in and get learning about how to create motion graphics in PowerPoint. 2. Project: Now of course, the project for this course is to create a motion graphic. In PowerPoint, you can create whatever motion graphic you want. But if this is your first time working with motion graphics or animation, I really suggest that you try and keep it simple for this first project, you mean something like a logo animation is really easy way to get started. And that's one of the things that I will be demoing in this course. There's just a couple of requirements that you want to make sure you have for your motion graphic before you submit it. First, you need to make sure your motion graphic uses all three kinds. Animations inside of PowerPoint and entrance animation and emphasis animation and an Exit animation. Of course, you can use as many of those as you want, but make sure that you include at least one of each. Another thing that you must do is use a transition to create an animation between slides. The transition will use the most is called morph. And I will show you how to use that in this course. The third requirement is to make sure that your animation is at least three seconds long. That really gives you at least enough time to play with to really get your feet wet in animation. Now I know that three seconds doesn't sound like a lot, but creating a motion graphic really is a lot of work. So even three seconds of emotion graphic can end up taking a lot of time. So again, if this is your first time, just go ahead and try and keep it simple. Now, you're welcome to use whatever version of PowerPoint you want for this, I will be using PowerPoint on the Mac. Powerpoint on the Mac is a little bit more limited than PowerPoint on the PC. So if you're using PowerPoint on PC, you might have a few features that I don't go over in this course, but you won't be missing any features. As always, if you have any questions, please go ahead and drop in the discussion tab. I'm happy to try and answer your questions. Please do take the time to complete the project, makes sure that you export it as a video which I'll show you how to do. And then you'll need to upload it somewhere like YouTube or Vimeo so that you can link to it in your Skillshare project because you can't upload a video directly into your Skillshare project, but please do take the time to do that and then submit it so that we can all see your great work and we can all learn together, also be there and providing feedback for anybody who submits their project. So that's a great way to keep learning. Alright, that's it for the project. But in the next video, we're going to talk a little bit more about what motion graphics are. And hopefully that will help this make more sense for you. 3. What are Motion Graphics: Alright, at this point, you might be interested in learning more about how to create motion graphics, and that's why you're taking this course. But you also might be wondering a little bit about what motion graphics actually are, wondering what you might use them for. So let's talk a little bit about that before we dive into actually making them, I'll show some motion graphics throughout this video and throughout this course. And just know that all of these motion graphics that I'm using here were created in PowerPoint. I didn't use any other software to create the motion graphics that will be used in this course. So motion graphics really sit at the intersection of graphic design and animation. Essentially, we designed some types of graphics that we might want to give some life to in the form of movement. And that makes them a motion graphic once we add in that movement. Now what are some examples? Well, things like titles, bumpers between TV shows and advertisements, whole advertisements, also animated infographics or even animated logos. These are all forms of motion graphics. Some motion graphics like an explainer video that all motion graphics without any talking head, they might be several minutes long, but there can also be motion graphics that are as short as just a few seconds, like just an animated logo at the end of a commercial. So there's lots of different types of motion graphics and learning to create motion graphics is a really valuable skill because it opens up a whole world of opportunity to do that. Just knowing graphic design on its own can't open up to you because there are lots of situations where you might want to add movement to them. Okay, that's a little bit about what motion graphics are. Now that you know what they are. In the next video, we're going to talk about why we might use PowerPoint to create motion graphics. 4. Why Use PowerPoint: Now that we know a bit about what motion graphics are, let's talk about why we're going to use PowerPoint in this course to create motion graphics. See PowerPoint is presentation software. It's meant for giving business pitches or class presentations. And there's actually software like Adobe After Effects or black magic fusion that's actually created for making motion graphics. So why would we use PowerPoint? Well, the reason is that PowerPoint has a lot of animation features built into it, which you really wouldn't want to use in presentations because they make your presentations look bad, but they're actually just about perfect for starting out making simple motion graphics PowerPoints that to this really nice juncture of access and approachability. Those two things together, most people already have PowerPoint installed on their computer and most people have used it before. So they don't feel a lot of intimidation. If the first time you wanted to motion graphics, you open them something like black magic fusion. You can feel a little bit overwhelmed and intimidated by all of the different things going on. Whereas in PowerPoint, you probably already familiar with some of the basic concepts. So it makes it an easier inroad for you to start learning how to do motion graphics without having to purchase them learn and entire new program. So we're doing this PowerPoint and in the next video we're going to jump in and learn about how we should set up our document for motion graphics. 5. Setting Up the Document: Now we're in PowerPoint and we're going go ahead and set up the document so that we can make a motion graphic video out of it. Now, when you first come in PowerPoint, you will probably be greeted by something like this that shows you either your files or some templates. So we want to make sure that we set this up with as little junk that we have to delete as possible because a lot of PowerPoint templates are just full of a lot of junk that PowerPoint thinks it's useful, but really isn't useful for even a presentation, let alone for something where we're trying to create motion graphics. So we're going to go ahead and select the blank presentation. So click on the blank presentation and then click Create. We end up in a slideshow that looks like this. And we want to get this setup so that it would easily transfer into a video. We can bring it into a video editor and actually use it. So we're going to want to make sure that it's right resolution everything. But the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to get rid of the junk that PowerPoint gives us. And because we chose the blank template, there's not a lot. We just need to select these titles, subtitles, and just hit delete. And you can see that over here on the side, PowerPoint is going pop up these design ideas because PowerPoint and thinks it knows a lot about design even though it doesn't. So you can just go ahead and hit the X to get rid of that. We're going to need that space for a lot of things later. So just make sure you get rid of those design ideas. We don't need them to be taking up space as we're dealing with something as complicated as motion graphics. I would just avoid anything that PowerPoint tells you to do by default because generally they're not very good. So we want to make sure that this is in the correct aspect ratio, and that will depend on what the video we're making is. So what aspect ratio should it be? In? Generally speaking, in today's world, we make videos and as 16 by nine aspect ratio format. But if you're doing something for a vertical video format, like YouTube shorts or TikTok video or something like that, then you're going to do that in a nine by 16 aspect ratio. Whereas if you're doing something for like maybe an older feeling video, something that's going to feel more like from the 90s, then it's gonna be any four by three aspect ratio. So let me go ahead and show you just how you change the size of slides in PowerPoint. He wouldn't go up to the Design tab. And from the Design tab, you're actually going to just hop over to where it says slide size. And this is something that a lot of people just miss in PowerPoint generally, they can actually change the size of the slide. You can see it's currently set at widescreen 16 by nine, and that's good. That's probably what you want it to be at if you're taking this into a regular video, you can also see that there's the old version, which is the four by three. So we'll click that. You can see it pops up with this. How do you want to scale it option? It doesn't matter because we have nothing on the slide. So it's always best to do this before you start making stuff. So I'll just click Scale, and now it's a four by three. But if I need to do something custom, like a 16 by nine Page Setup, and unfortunately it only does things in inches. So right now you can see it says ten inches by 7.5. Now you can change this to some standard sizes. If you want a letter page size, you can change it to that. There's also 35-millimeter slide, so there's a few different things. But if you want to change this into vertical video, say for a phone or something, you would just go ahead and click Custom. And we're going to change that to you is just a nine by 16. So we just put in nine 16 here and it's going to do it in inches, but it'll be scaled to pixels later when you export it. So go ahead and click Okay, and you can choose scale up or scale down. Just check scale up. And you can see we get that format there, but we're going to be starting out just using this 16 by nine. So I'm going to click it back to white screen here so that we can start work from there. Okay, now that we have our slide documents setup, we're going to be ready to start learning about the basics of animation in the next video. 6. Animation Basics: We have our document setup. It is time for us to learn about the basics of animation in PowerPoint. And the first thing that you're going to want to do is make sure that you have some kind of an object on the screen to animate. In this case, I just have a circle here. And when I click on it, I can select it and then I'll be able to animate it. So let's go ahead and turn to the animation tab on the ribbon. So just go ahead and click where it says animations. And again, this will look a little different depending on which version of the program you're in, but they all have the same basic functionality. So the first thing to note is that there are three sets of animations here that are kind of the basic animation sets. You can see here we have these green ones. And if you click down, you can see there are more of these. These are known as the entrance animations. So they are the way that something arrives on to a slide. Then you have these yellow ones, the middle ones. These are called the emphasis animations. Does, wallet is on the slide, and then we have the red ones here. These are called the exit animations. These are what happens when something leaves a slide. So you have entrance, emphasis and exit. They all start with E, so that makes it easy to remember. And basically you just want to think, do I want this thing doing something when it comes on? Do I want it doing something while it's on the slide? Or do I want do something while it exits the slide? And you can add multiple of these onto one object. So let's go ahead and just take a look at some of the basics here. So when we go here and we click this, we can choose how we want it to come. So let's say that we want this to fly in from the side. We're going to choose the fly in animation, but it doesn't fly in from the side, it flies in from the bottom. So we need to do something with the Effect Options. Right here, you can see it says Effect Options and it has an arrow coming up. This allows us to determine the direction of the motion. Now, this is important because we want to be able to match our motion. So we want it to be able to feel like there's something happening with this circle. We basically wanted to come in from the left and then exit to the right. That's called matching motion, so that it looks like it's all kind of a nice flow. So let's go ahead and choose from the left. And different types of animations will have different effects options that you can choose from. Let's go ahead and click off of that and then we'll click back on. And that's just because we don't want to change the entrance animation. We want to have a new one. So we clicked off and then we click back on. And now we're going to choose fly out. Now it flies down. So we're going to go to effect options and we're going to choose to fly to the right. This is important because we want to be able to see it come on and then come off. So you have the effect options there. Okay, so let's go ahead and we can watch this by going into our slideshow. So that's pretty much simple enough. It comes on, it goes out. That's probably something similar to what you maybe have done in PowerPoint before, but there are a lot of different options here to choose from. So you can go ahead and you can play around with these to see what you get. It's going to be important that we think about how we want our animation to go before we start doing it. This is going to happen in our sketching or storey building phase, where we actually think through it. And then we can take our sketch and we can look at what we have available to us in order to get as close to that as possible. So we're not going go through each and every one of these, but they each have different things about them, different ways that they work. I'm just going to show you another one really quick by clicking on here. And then I'm going to go ahead and use this zoom one because I want you to be able to see different effect options. So you can see this one's effect options instead of being directional or object's center or slide center. In this case, our object is in the middle of the slide, so it doesn't really matter, but I just wanted you to see that there are some different options depending on what you choose. Okay, so those are the animation basics. And obviously it's going get a lot more complicated than this from here, but you really need to get those down in order to really understand what's happening. But you really need to get those figured out before you can understand some of the more advanced thing. So make sure that you understand entrance emphasis, which I'll just show you one of those as well. We've got one here that's quite useful. It's called grow and shrink. It can grow. Its effect options are depending on how you want it to grow. So you can have it just stretch horizontal, just vertical, stretch in both, which is the normal one, then you can make it go tiny. You can make it just go smaller. You can make it go larger, or you can make it go huge so you can adjust those depend how big you want it to be. So make sure that you're comfortable with your entrance emphasis and exit animations on one object. And then we'll go ahead and we will start learning some of the advanced animation features in PowerPoint. 7. Advanced Animation: Last video, we learned the basics of using entrance emphasis and exit animations on a single object. And that's as far as most people get in PowerPoint and it's really all they probably need to know for presentations. But when we start getting into motion graphics, we have to touch some of the more advanced options inside of PowerPoint. And we're still going to be using those three types, but we're going to be combining them together, learning how different things happen. And in order to do that is to open up the animation pane, which is right here. We're going to click Animation Pane. And on the right, it's going to open up a pane that shows us all of our animations as well as all of the options that we can deal with on them. So there's actually more than just the effect options that we've seen so far. There's gonna be some other things that we can do here, but you can see that we've added four different animations into this one object. So green is entrance, so we have an entrance, then red is exit, we have it exiting, then we have an entering again, and then we have an emphasis. So if I play through this by clicking this play from, you'll see it come in and go out, come in, and then emphasize. And so you can see how those stack up there. Now it's important to note that if you're doing this on a PC, your animation pane will look a little bit different. We'll look a little bit more like a traditional video editing timeline where you can see everything and how long they're happening for. We can't see that on the Mac, but we can still tell how long would happening because we can see that up here, a duration. So this tells us that we have 2.5th for this. And we can also come down here and open up the timing. And we can see that it's 2.5th or very fast, which brings us to the next point, which is one of the advanced features, is determining the duration of each of your animations. And you can use this to make different things happen at different times. There's a couple of options here. First, you have when to start it. You have three options here. It's either on-click with previous or after previous. Very rarely are you going to use the onclick option. And the reason why you aren't going to use that very often is because you aren't going to be presenting this. You're going to be exploring this as a video, using it as a motion graphics. So generally you're either going to use with previous, which will cause it to happen at the same time as something else. If it's the first animation, then it will happen at the same time as they transition to that slide. But if it's the second or other subsequent animations, if it's width previous than it will happen at the same time. So you can choose with previous or after previous will cause it to happen immediately after the last animation. So that's really important and you'll see us use that a lot more as we go through this. And then there's the duration. How long does it happen for this one happens to be 0.5 seconds, which is very fast. It says there's also 1235. So you can adjust the speed that way or you can adjust it manually here. And so that gives you a lot of manual control for how much you put on there, then there's the delay. So if you have a delay, it will delay by that many seconds. So if I click and I have a delay of 1 second, when I click it, it will wait 1 second before it does anything. If I have it set to with previous and I have a delay of 1 second after the first animation goes, it will wait 1 second before going. I have it set to after previous. It will wait until the next animation finishes, and then it will wait 1 second before it goes. There you can see you have some options for controlling the timing and that's going to become very important as we get into more complex animations where we want multiple things happening at the same time, or close together, or waiting and pausing for a second before they happen. We're going to want to be able to control the timing in pretty granulated way, then there's the option to choose Repeat. So you can choose how many times it does the animation. Now, in this case, it's a fly-in. So if we choose to do it twice, we'll get this weird flying, flying where it kind of jerks and then it follows through the rest of the animation. So that's kind of odd, but different animations may be more useful in repeating. There's also this option to rewind when done, we won't really use that as we're creating motion graphics, because all that does is it basically resets the slide and we won't need that in this case, triggers, we won't deal with that. All hair triggers are really if you are setting things up to have animations when they get clicked on, if you're using this for a kiosk, but that's outside of the scope of creating motion graphics, so we won't deal with that. And then text animations we'll get to in another video, but these are specifically for animating texts. Okay, so this is the animation pane. You can see how things are set up here and it's good to note that you can click and drag these. So if I want my oval three emphasis to be in-between my first second, I can just click that and then it will change that so that I get my fly in. Oh, I still have that set to twice. And then I get my emphasis and then add my flyout. You can just click and drag those around. You can also tell by these icons here what is happening. So you can see that this little clock here, it means it's set to after previous. This little arrow means that it's set to onclick. What if I change that to with previous? You can see that it just disappears. And these then get the same number because they're going to happen at the same time. So that's kind of an interesting thing. Let me go ahead and change this to 2.5th again. But if these are happening at the same time, that means it will fly in and grow at the same time. So let's just see that fly in and it's already grown. And so you can't really see it happening and that's why you might want to delay it. So let's go ahead and go to our grow and will delay it by 2.5th. And then we will let this fly in. And as it flies in, it's growing. So but we might need to slow that down so that you can see it better. So let's go ahead and we'll slow this down. Seconds again. There's a lot of just trial and error as you adjust things in animation. Let's go ahead and play from the beginning as we slide and you can see it's growing. Just to not repeat twice. I have no repeat. And let's watch it. Come in and grow. It comes in, it grows, disappears. So that shows us how we would use the animation pane while we have one object, but when we have two objects, things get a little bit more complicated, but of course it also allows us to do more. So let's go ahead and add another object. We're just going go to Insert, I'm going to shapes, and let's just choose a triangle. So if I drag this triangle out and hold down shift just to keep it in a square format. So with this triangle, we now have two objects on the screen. And if we add an animation by going to animations and let's just say dissolve in. You can see that now we have this and it's called triangle for now. I don't know exactly why the numbers are there, but I think it just adds number each time you add an object to it. And we had those two objects on at the beginning of the slide when we started it and we deleted them. So that's, I think why this is over three and this is triangle for, but that's not all that helpful once you get into a whole bunch, especially if you have multiple ovals, say you've got some eyes and so you've got several of them on a character or something like that. There's gonna be a lot going on. And so you really want to be able to deal with each of these separately and to know what's happening. So let's go ahead and name these. And the way that we name them is actually by opening up a, another pain. And like I said, we're going to need paint over here. There's going to be a lot going on. So we need actually the format pane to be opened up. So if we click on an object, let me go to shape a format. You can see here, we can actually choose the selection pane. And the selection pane is what's going to allow us to see each of our objects. We can see they're stacking order. So this triangle is actually on top of this circle. You can see that you can turn objects off and on by using the eyeball. And critically, you can also rename objects. So let's say we want to name this to blue triangle. And then we want to name this black circle. So when I wanted to rename it, I just click on it once and then double-click on it. And then we can say black circle. Now when I go to my animations, I can see exactly what's happening to my black circle and my blue triangle. And so having your selection pane is going to be important both for ordering things and also for naming things so that you can easily see what you're doing with your animations. Okay, so now that we know how to use the Animation Pane, how to adjust the duration of an animation and the order of an animation. Now we can actually go ahead and we can learn about another advanced animation feature, which is path animations, which we will talk about in the next video. 8. Path Animations: So far we've talked about the entrance animations, the emphasis animations, and the exit animations. There is one more type though, and it is quite powerful. These are the path animations which are found right here. So you can imagine this will be really helpful when you want things to move in a particular way or to a particular location, which ends up being a lot of what can happen in motion graphics. Now, there are a lot of options here, so we're going to go through a few of them just so you can kind of understand. You can see that there are basic ones, complex ones, and what they call custom ones. So let's go ahead and start with the basic. I'm just going to start with the line. Here. You can see that it immediately defaults to a Go down line. So you can see here that there is a green dot where the animation begins and there is a red dot where the animation ends. So that's going to be really important here because we can actually move our object and the green and the red move with it. But we can also move these particular points. So this can be a little bit tricky to do. Let me just zoom out a little bit here so we can see where we're going. Grab that and move it. We move it right here. So now let's go ahead and open up our animation pane so we can play this. You can see we're going to move like that. So moving those points can be helpful, but like I said, it is a little bit tricky to grab them and make sure you know where they're at because the PowerPoint doesn't make it easy to see it. So that's how you would modify that on this very simple one. Now let's go in here to the Effect Options just so we can see a few important things. You can see here we have smooth start and smooth end, and those are currently turned on. So I want you to watch this play through. And you can see it starts off slow and then gets faster and then it ends slower. So let me turn those off so you can see what it looks like. So you see that very linear motion doesn't look very natural. So having smooth start and smooth end on whenever you can is normally the best thing unless you're trying to create a really jerky feeling with your animation. Let's go ahead and see it again with the smoothness. There you go. Now there's also your balance option. So that gets rid of the smooth end and it will make it bounce. So let's see what that does. Okay? So you can see it just kinda bounces back and forth. And this is really just to try and give your animations more of a natural feel, because very few things move in a straight linear pattern and many things do you bounce when they encounter something else or when they're at the end. This is especially good if something's going up and down. So you have that and then you also have this auto reverse option. So let's just see what that looks like. Bounce and then it's going to bounce back. But I don t think the balance and makes much sense there. So let's try it with just the smooth start, smooth end. It just kinda goes back and forth there with the auto reverse turned on, which can be very useful. But it's just important to know that these options are here. Smooth start and smooth end are similar to what you might have heard of as ease in, ease out or easy ease in other animation programs. So that's what you're looking for. There are some other animations that also have these type of settings. So just make sure you're looking for them so that you can get the most natural feeling possible. Okay, let's try and look up what we have here. So for Effect Options, we moved yet ourselves, but there are also options to change it. So there's a diagonal option or there's just an up and down one. There's a number there. So if you can't get it exactly where you want it to be, you can use these. Now, let's look at different types of path animation. So we've looked at probably the most basic, which is the line. Well, let's look at something that's a little bit more complex. So let's look at the special curve. We still have auto reverse turn on. Let me turn that off just for now and you can see that we've just got this little spirally bouncy thing here. And because it returns to its spot, it just has this single point here. And there's not a lot that we can modify on that. But under Effect, Options eight gives us several different types of special curves. So we have a funnel, a heartbeat, a spring. This one's the figure eight and there are stairs, so you've got that. And then we also have here under path, we have edit points. So we can actually come in here and we can modify each point on this path, which could give us some pretty funky results. Watch that. You can see it's just different than it was before, so that edit points can be quite helpful. And there is reverse path here. In this case, that just makes it go on the left side instead of the right side where it starts out. But reverse path can be helpful in many situations where maybe you have it set going the opposite of the direction that you wanted to. And then you can just go ahead and reverse the path. So you can see the complex animations. They just get a little bit more complex. Of course, then the basic ones do. Now let's look at the custom customer is where you can actually draw whatever you want. Let's try drawing a curve here. You can see that I was able to just draw that custom curve and it was a curved line that it was going forward. Now, if I wanted to draw straight line, I could choose Draw a line. I can also choose draw free form, which is going, let me just lay down points as I want. And also lets you scribble as well. And then just hit escape to get out of that. And there it goes, bouncing around. So these get a little bit wild. Of course, you want to make sure that you are doing a good job of drawing those. And of course, if we do draw a line, it's going to just make it so we draw a straight line so we can go exactly where we want to. So that's pretty much it for path animations. Pretty much. You're always going to have a start and an end point. And you have your effect options over here to make it seem more natural. And that's basically what you can do there. And it might seem simplistic right now, but I promise you, you're going to find this very useful when you get into actually making especially more complex animations and you need objects to be in very specific spots. Alright, now that we've learned more about animating specific objects, Let's go ahead and in the next video we'll learn more about working with shapes to get the exact type of object that we want. 9. Working with Shapes: A little bit more about animating our objects. We want to go ahead and learn more about what we can do with those objects in order to get the look that we want. So we're going to switch off of our animation tab here and we're going go to our Home tab here to start out with most basic objects that you have, our shapes. So here is the shape menu and PowerPoint has a lot of different shape options here. And this menu is divided up. So you'll have your recently U-shapes at the top. So you can see I've been experimenting with a bunch of different shapes as I've been working on this course. And then you have your lines. These are your basic lines and then rectangles. And then you start to move into things that are a little bit more complex. The basic shapes has most of the shapes that you would think of, triangles, squares, diamonds, those kinds of things, as well as some things that you might not think of like lightning bolts and sunshine's moons, clouds. So there's quite a bit here. Then you have block arrows, equation shapes. If you're doing something with math, and then flowchart shapes, then you also have some really interesting stars and banners. So if you're up here and you're looking through here and you're saying, boy, I would really like to get a seven-point star. Well, you have to come down here to find that 7 start right here. When you see these other stars with these numbers on them, that's the number of points that they have because it gets hard to actually see it. And in the case of some of these larger ones, I don't even think they can put them all on it this size. And so that just tells you the number of points. That number will not appear in the center of that shape. Some banners and then call-outs, which is very useful if you're trying to show like dialogue or thinking or something like that. And then these action buttons which you probably will not need for motion graphics, those are more if you're designing interactive type of PowerPoint. Okay, so that's the basic setup of the shapes. And for the most part, I think you'll probably stick to this upper area except for maybe stars and call outs. But let's learn about the properties of shapes because you really need to know how to modify the properties of shapes in order to get things looking the way that you want. So let's click on this shape and you can see that we get a new tab in our ribbon called Shape Format. Let's click on that. And there's a lot of different options here. We're going go over many of them, but not all, because some of them are not really important to what we're doing. The first thing to understand is that each shape has a fill and an outline. That's really important to understand. So right now we have a circle and this circle has a fill of black. If we come up to our Shape Fill and we click here, we can change it to any of these colors, but these are our theme colors and maybe they're not what we want. We want to have some other colors and we can choose more fill colors. From here we get total control. We can put it in a hex code. We can use RGB sliders, CMYK, HSB, gray scale, anything that we might want in order to get this to the color that we need to right now, I'm just going to go ahead and just show you how to switch it to orange. Now it is an orange circle. We have no outline. So if we come to shape, outline and choose our dropdown, you can see we're currently set to no outline. That's why it's highlighted. But if we wanted to have an outline, we could go ahead and set a color to it. Now, if you can see that let me zoom in there. It's a thin blue line around here, but that might not be what we want. We might want to really be able to modify that line. So if we come up here to shape outline and we see that we have weight so that we can make it bigger or smaller. But also we have this more lines option. Let's go ahead and click that because that's going to open up this Format Shape panel on the side. And that's where we can really start to get into the nitty-gritty of this. Being able to work with lines is really important in motion graphics because you often need lines running across the screen to guide viewers eyes, or to just give a sense of motion to the whole thing. So let's go ahead and look at this. Here we can dial in our width exactly. So before we add presets here, we can put in exactly what we want. So if I wanted 12 width, I can put that in. We also have style options. So here's the sketch style. Right now. It is just straight. It's not supposed to look sketch, but sometimes, especially if you're doing something that you want to have a hand-drawn feel to it. You might want to put in on one of these sketch templates. So let's just see what this looks like. If you do scribble, obviously, that makes it look like it's not a perfect circle, right? So each of these has different amounts that they're kind of off by. Just go back to straight, just the straight line here. Then there's compound types. So this actually determines how many lines you can see. So you can do a double line, you can do a double line where the top one is thicker. You can do a double line where the bottom one is thicker. And you can even do a triple line where the middle line is the thickest. So that's just the compound type there. We'll go back to a single here and then dashed. This is a really important section. So your dash type here is going to determine what your dashes look like. So you can see there are small ones. My ones that are not as small. And then larger ones. And then kind of a dashed dot setup. Larger dashes, larger dashes with smaller ones, and then double small ones. So there's just a couple of different options there. Now, you might notice that when we come here to this, it doesn't look like circles the way it does in the menu. And that's because our cap type is set to flat. So CAP type determines at the end of any piece of line, is it going to be round or flat or square? So let's just look at these were square. It's going look very similar. It's slightly smaller, so you get more in there. And if it's round, these are going to be circles. But if this were just a straight line than the ends would just be rounded. Let me show you that with a different style here. So if I make this dash here, you can see that these are now rounded chips. The join type is where there is a join in the middle and that can be rounded, beveled, or mattered. And we do not currently have a join because this is a circle, so we have no points here. But if we did, we could set it to that as well. And you probably want to match these if you're Cap Types round, you'd probably want a round join type. Let me go ahead and draw a line here so that you can see a couple of other things that are going to be important. When grab a line. When we're on this line, you can see we have more options that open up to us. So let's go ahead and just make this a little bit bigger. And then we can choose our begin arrow type or begin arrow size, our end arrow type in our end arrow size. So let's go ahead and set an arrow at our beginning. And let's set similar arrow at the end, but we can set them up to be bigger or smaller. So that's quite useful. And there are different types that you can have here. They don't all have to be arrows. You can also have diamonds or circles. Use those to get your object looking the way you want it to do. Change your fill, change your stroke, change the way your dashes are, the way your caps are. Modify those things to get things looking really the way that you want them to. Some shapes have special things that can be done to them. So let's go ahead and just look at a few of these shapes. Let's start by looking at the rounded rectangle. Anytime you see a little yellow box, that means it is a modifiable property. We can go ahead and we can take this little do Hickey here and we can pull this in all the way to basically a circle or all the way out to a fully right angled square. So you have those options in terms of roundness here. And like I said, different objects will have different things that you can do. So let's go ahead and grab a triangle. Let's see that one. This one also has one. And you might think that this would round out the triangle points, but it doesn't. It allows you to change where this top point is at. Basically changed the type of triangle. Let me show you another one with the stars. Come down here and we grab it seven-point star. We drag that out. We have this yellow square here and this is our radius. So we can pull that in or we can push it out all the way to where we actually become a polygon and not a star. We have options there, and these are just a few examples. There are lots of shapes and we aren't going to be able to go through all of them here. Let me just show you another one really quickly. This one here is called the snips, same side corner rectangle, which is kind of a long name. But basically the snips are here and we can actually pull those in and push them out. And then we have another one here which actually will allow us to push this in. And you can see that messing with this a little bit gives you the chance to create some interesting looking shapes. For example, this looks a lot like a kind of a diamond shape that you might use if you were doing like a diamond ring or something like that. So you can kind of make the shapes your own. A lot of these have different options that you can play with as you are working through this. So just make sure that you're taking advantage of those little yellow squares and modifying the properties of your shape that can help you to get to the shape that you really want. Now you might want shapes that are not just found here in PowerPoint. And in that case, you might need to create them on your own. So in order to do that, you're going to need this merge shape feature, which is up here. We're going to need a couple of shapes to show you how that works. Let me go ahead and make a new slide here. And now we'll go ahead and we will add in a circle. I'm just going to duplicate that by holding Control down on the keyboard, clicking and dragging. Now I have two overlapping circles. And what I wanna do is get that middle section so that can have a little leaf shape and come here to my merge shapes, I have five options. I'm just going to show you what each of them are. First is union. Union is going to merge your two shapes together. Hit Command Z. To undo that. Next you have Combine. Combine will take the part of the shapes that don't overlap and make them one shape and leave empty spaces where they did overlap. Next is fragment. Fragment will take all the places where lines and close it and make it a separate shape. I see we have this, this and this. So we have gotten to the leaf shape, but not only the leaf shape. Next we have intersect, and now we have just the leaf-shaped intersect takes only the spots where the shapes are overlapping and keeps them. Then we have Subtract. Subtract is going to take the back object and subtract it from the front object. It's really important to make sure that you have, you're stacking order, right? And remember, you can use your selection pane to do that. And then you can get these specific shapes that you want using those merge shape features. So again, there's five different options here, and you want to make sure that you use them to get what you want. Now if you're used to working in some other graphic design tools, you may be familiar with Pathfinder tools. This is basically exactly the same. Okay, So now we've learned a lot about the different properties involved in shapes and how to use the merge shape feature to create new shapes out of existing ones. In the next video, we're going to talk about how PowerPoint has some icons already built for you that might be useful and save you some time if you don't want to go and build those shapes yourself. 10. Using Icons: Hello, we know about working with shapes. We're going talk about working with icons. Sometimes you need something a little bit more complex than just a simple shape. And maybe you don't have the time or you can't figure out how to make it using the simple shapes and the merge tools. In that case, you can use PowerPoint pre-created icons. So let's go over to the Insert tab. And when we find icons and click that, we're going to get a new stock image panel over on the right-hand side. So there are several options here. One is images. We won't worry about that for now because those are actually photographs and we won't use those for motion graphics most of the time, but icons are going to be a different story and there's a little drop-down here. We also have cut out people, stickers, videos, illustrations, and cartoon people. So there's some options here, but for now, we're going to focus on icons because they're the simplest and easiest to use. So you can see you have a number of icons available to you here. You can also search for something. So let's say that we wanted to put in a fox. I can search for Fox and it comes up, now this is probably actually the same icon. It's just one is a filled icon and one is a stroke icon. So it just depends on what you want. Let's go ahead and just click the check mark on the field one. And then we do have to choose Insert. When we choose that, it's going to pop in here. Now, PowerPoint is going to always try and tell you these design ideas. Just ignore those. I just close that out because we do not want PowerPoint giving us design ideas because PowerPoint doesn't know anything about science. But now that we have our icon here, we can actually go ahead and we can resize this just like we would a shape. And we can change its color. So we can come down over here and we could be like, Well, I want my fox to be red and we could change its outline if we wanted to give it an orange outline. So there's a whole bunch of things that we could do to modify this, but we can't do everything that we might want to do. For example, if we wanted to move this leg somewhere else or something like that, we can't do that because we can't select it on its own, but we can break this out into its component parts if we right-click and we choose Convert to Shape. Once we do that, you can see that we now have this leg on its own because it was separate from everything else. So sometimes that's going to be useful. So we wanted to just reposition this leg a little bit. We could do that here just by moving that around a little bit. Now this might not be the best option for that. So let's go ahead and let's just look at another one. Let's do school. And when we get the search here, we get a bunch of different options for school. I'm going to go ahead and choose this glue bottle here because this is an instance where we might want to actually change the cap here, that color, but of course we can't change on its own. So we do this convert to shape, where we then can select that on its own and we can change that fill. The shape format here, change Fill, and we're going to make that orange. Then we can make this one a off-white gray color. So now we have a glue bottle that looks more convincing than just one solid color. So being able to break that out into its component parts can be really useful. And that's how you're going to use icons. I just want to mention a couple of other things. First one is you can see that there are fills and strokes. And normally you're going to want to stick with one type of icon. That's the design principle of repetition. So you really want to stick with one type of icon throughout. But fortunately, most of the icons in PowerPoint are done in both fill and stroke style. Next is this drop-down here, it has a lot of different options. They're not all that useful, but the illustration one might be if they have the right illustration for you. But you definitely need to break this down into its component parts so that you can change the color of different pieces, right? Because everything here is yellow by default and we don't necessarily want it to be yellow. We might want to change each piece independently. There's also cartoon people. They're just little people that are cartoons that you can choose from. And if you want to be able to make your own person, there are options here, like heads. So you can choose the head. You can choose a face, then you can choose body. And then you can choose or a full body accessories, decorations. There a bunch of different things that you could do with this if you want to really be able to make your own characters here. So you can kind of go through the different options that they have there or you can just search. Now on that, I would use a lot, but it might be useful for you. So that's basically working with icons and other types of stock images that might be useful for your motion graphics. In the next video, we're going go ahead and talk about adding texts and animating it. 11. Animating Text: About a bunch of different animations and different types of objects that we have. And now we need to talk about a special type of object, which is text. Text is going to be really important in a lot of Motion Graphics, especially things like logos or animated infographics, where you need to have some headline text in there. So there's gonna be a lot of times where you're going need to use animated texts. And of course you can just add text onto your slide and then you'll have your regular animation tools like we've talked about entrance, emphasis and exit effects. But there are a few of these that only apply to text. And so that's where this gets important. And then there's a few options that only apply to text as well. So let's go ahead and look at this down here. Wherever you see something that looks like text, that means it is a text animation and it only applies to text. So let's just go ahead and look at the drop one here. Now, this animation took quite a bit of time and it's probably a little annoying for the viewer in this way. So you might want to adjust some things about it. So we just need to come over to our text animations over here. And we have a couple of options that we only have with texts. And that is to animate texts either by letter, by word or all at once. We were doing it by letter. Let's try it by word. And then if we play it, you can see they dropped by word, which is a little bit quicker and a little bit less probably annoying. So you also have this group text option here, which lets you determine how your paragraphs and your different heading levels come in. But generally, in these types of scenarios, you're really just going to be using one line of text because you aren't going to be like having a huge paragraph of texts that you're going to animate onto screen that would not be a very effective use, a motion graphic. So let's just focus here on animate by word or by letter or all at once. If we do it all at once, see what that looks like. It all comes together. You can kind of control that now by letter might be useful in some scenarios, but this was just too slow, right? So we would need to adjust the timing here to speed it up. It says it's fast right now, but we would want it to be probably very fast. And even then, it might just be a little bit too much up and down and all around there. So you really want to be conscious of what you have going on. So let's take a look at a couple of these others. Flip. Very similar. Here, doesn't take quite so much time. And of course you can choose to flip by word as well, which gives you a different effect there. So there's drop, There's flip, and there's whip. And of course, all of these other ones can apply to texts just like they can do other objects, but they will work very similar to how they would with other objects. So we're just focusing on these text-only animations here. There's whip, and then under your emphasis, you have a few as well. So any place where there's a letter here, it's going to be a text animation, so there's font color. So you can see that that actually changes the color of the font. And under your Effect Options here, you'll be able to choose the color that you want it to be. So say I wanted it to be green. Now it changes to green. There's also this bold flash one, which will basically just flash the bold version of that font. Then there's this brush color. So that's similar to the font color except in the way that it happens, right? This just brushes across the whole thing. Now there's a currently set to very quick. So that's why it's going so fast. And then we have underlined. So this one I think would actually be quite useful, either this brush color or this underlying just to emphasize different texts and your motion graphic. So I'd probably slow that one down just a little bit. Now let's go into a little bit fast. Just give it a little bit more time on the underlying there. Then there is the grow with color. So you can grow texts specifically with color and you can see that it kinda bumps down there. And then there is a shimmer text. Lastly, we have the bold reveal that just bolts the text across. So that's a little bit different than the bold flash because it reveals across rather than flashing on the whole word at once. So those are the text emphasis animations. And then we have the exit animations. And these of course, are going to be very similar to the entrance one. So we again have we have drop, Flip and whip. So this is just having them leave instead. So you can see there's a little less bounce to it there as it drops off the screen rather than dropping down. So those are kind of the main ones there. These flip and whip are going to be the same just in reverse of the other ones. So there's flip and then there's wet. So you've got a few different options for what you can do here. And of course, like I said before, PC will have a little bit different options. And then MAC they each have a little bit different things, but there will be similar. Basically just remember that you can use any animation on text, but you can also use these special text-only animations for any of the three kinds of animations. And you want to make sure that you also are choosing whether you are animated by letter or by word or all at once, so that you can get the effect that you want. The other thing that's really important to think about is how long it is happening for. So really dial in how fast or slow you want it to be in order to get the right effect on your text. So that's gonna be it for animating text. Next, we're going to talk about animating groups of objects. 12. Animating Groups: It's time to talk about animating groups of objects. So basically what you can see here, if I go into my selection pane is just that I have a couple of different groups going on, on this slide with these eyeballs. The first one is called group nine, and we could probably call that something else. So it's really useful of course, to name your objects when you're here. So you can always just double-click on that and then you can rename it. And I could call this AI group. So the eyes are together here. Now. Then I have this one called group five, which it's easy to figure out what you have if you just hit the eyeball, it will turn it off. We're back on. So this is gonna be my right eyeball. And so this one is going to be my left eyeball. So now that I know what each thing is, you can see they're grouped together. So I collapsed the AI group. It's just one thing. It's important to know that groups will animate as a single object and you cannot animate parts of a group separately. So let me just show you this animation. This is just to rotate the eyes. So they just go like that. And if I want to also animate the pupils or the irises, I can't do that because this is a group and every animation that happens to this group will happen to the whole group. And of course it's treating the middle of the group, the center. So when I push play, it spins around there. Now, if I want to spin those eyes and then also have those eyes rotate, I need an identical slide, which is why I have slide to here. And slide two has two animations. Each one has group four and group five, which are going to be the left eye and the right eye. So if I click play here, those can spin independently because they are each group. So they can spin around the center axis of each circle instead of around the center of the eyes themselves, the in-between part. So they just go like that. So I can put these together. And to the viewer watching it, it will appear that we go from spinning the eyes together to spinning the eyes separately. And it looks like it's one thing. But in actuality, I need two slides to make that happen because I need these groups separate and there's no way to animate grouping. They can't have grouping change while I'm on the slide. So this is really important to understand because there'll be times when you want the entire group to be able to do something together. And there will be times when you want separate objects within the group to be able to animate separately. This is especially true when working with characters. A lot of time you will see why a character to be able to move and you'll want the whole body and everything to move together. But then you'll want something like the hand or the eyes or the head to be able to move separately. So you just need to be aware of your groups. Couple of things to keep in mind is when you want to group something together, you just hold down Command Option G. And when you want to ungroup something, you hold down Command Option Shift G to reverse that behavior. Something to remember here is that when you group or ungroup, it will remove any animations from it. So let me show you this. If I click here on this group and then I click Command Option Shift G, it will ungroup that and you can see my animation disappears. Now there's no animation on that at all. And if I play this, only one eye is going to spin because grouping and ungrouping removes animation. Let me just hit Command Z to undo that. So just be aware of that. You don't want to do whole bunch of animation then be like, oh, I'd like a group to group things together and you lose all that animation. Of course you can hit Command Z, just make sure you do that quickly. If that happens to you, it can take a little bit of time for you to wrap your mind around working with groups. So I really got to think about it. Spend some time getting used to thinking about groups and how you would animate different pieces of something that appears to be a group. And how you would use different slides and that kind of thing. Because it's going to be really important as you go through making your motion graphics to have this piece down, especially if you want to get into more complex things. Okay, so that's it for working with groups and animating them. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and we're going to talk about using transitions to move between slides. 13. Transitions: Now that we've talked about all the different kinds of animations and the different things that we can animate. It's time to talk about transitions. Sometimes people get confused between transitions and animations, so it's important to understand the difference between them. Animations apply to a single object or group of objects that are acting as a single object. Whereas a transition actually applies to a slide. And you can see that transitions are located up here on the ribbon. It's another tab. And then you have a bunch of options here similar to what you would have with animations. So when you want to move between slides, if you want something animate while you do that, you're going to use a transition between the eyeballs. We didn't really want anything to change. We want them to appear to be exactly the same. But down here with this fox, we want him to move across and we want that to change the night sky and have the moon here. So we need a transition between these two slides. And you're probably familiar with some transitions like a push and a wipe and these kinds of ones here that get used a lot in presentations. And while these can be useful for motion graphics, and we'll look at them in a second. One of the most useful ones is called morphine. It's located right here. So we want to basically have slides that are very similar, but with subtle differences and we want something to change in-between them. So we're going to use the Morph transition to just make that happen pretty seamlessly. So you can see down here that there's a little star with some lines here. And that means that some kind of animation is applied to it. You can see that that also happens up here with the eyeballs even though there is no transition. So it'll show an animation or transition, the little star with the lines. This one has the Morph transition applied. And that is really important to note that the transition is always applied to the slide you are going to and not the slide you are coming from. So the Morph transition gets applied here. That always confuses me. I always get that mixed up. So it's just important to know that. So we're going to move between these. So if we click preview, we can see what happens. Okay, So that's a pretty smooth and seamless transition. And why does it work? Well, it works because I have the same objects on these pages. There's just changes in color and placement. So if you look behind this hill here, the sun is actually right there. The reason the sun needs to be there so that the sun will move in between them. So you need the same objects on the slide and only those objects will be able to morph. So the fox moves without me adding a motion path or anything to him, because PowerPoint knows that it's the same object and it's just in a different location. That's the same thing for the moon. The moon is actually located right here on this other slide, and so it's just moving. This is where stacking order is really important. The Moon has to be above the sky, but behind the hill in order for that to work. So you really need to pay attention to how your objects are stacked and then make sure that you have this same objects duplicated between slides. In this case, I just duplicate the whole slide and then made my modifications to it. Sometimes you just copy and paste objects between slides. So that's how you're going to use the Morph transition. And you can use that in a lot of different ways. You just want to make sure that you are using it to make these seamless transitions. And I'll just play that preview for you one more time. So pretty useful transition to know. Now the other transitions can be quite useful as well. So you can actually do something similar to make it seem like a really seamless transition. So let's say we have a timeline here and we have different events on it, but it's too big for one slide. And then we want this time to animate, to move as we're doing it. Maybe we're doing something like a motion infographic. A useful thing to do is to use like a post-transition which I have applied right here. So let's just watch that. And you can see what I've done is I've taken this yellow timeline bulb and I have applied it into both of these. So it's located half of it on this half of the slide and then half off the slide, and then the reverse of that is here. And so you got to think through your placement of objects and how you're going to do this. And then we use this Push transition to make this happen. It's just seamless and then this line is in the exact same spot on both slides. So it appears that the timeline is moving, but it's not in a whole different spot. This wouldn't work. Say if my line we're like up here. And then I did a preview, That's a little bit confusing because we want them to match. So I'll just leave that there. And then I've changed my push effect, which is normally from the bottom. I've changed that to come in from the right. So just like animations have options, the transition sometimes also have options that you can choose from the right, and they also have timing. So you can choose your duration and you can choose if it happens on a click or after a certain amount of time. So you have a lot of the same options here for your transitions, but something else that you really will want to keep in mind as you're stacking order. For example, you have things like uncover and cover here, and that is going to determine your stacking order. So uncovered and covered, doing exactly the same thing, but they're changing the stacking order of the slides cover. It's going to put slide, you are applying the transition chew on top and uncover is going to put it on the bottom. So it's just going to matter that you think through that as you're doing it. And of course, you can experiment with these as much as possible. You can try different things. And there are more than you can see here. You can actually click down and you can get a bunch of different options. Although I would generally probably stick with the subtle ones. There could be moments where you would want something a little bit more involved from these down here. So just make sure that you are thinking through your transitions in order to make the most use of your slide. And you can see that you can make it appear as though there aren't multiple slides, that it's just one seamless video that's going on if you use your transitions correctly. So that's going to be it for transitions. In the next video, we're going to go ahead and talk about adding sound effects to animations. 14. Sound Effects: Now that you know how to animate different objects and how to do transitions, you might want to be able to add a little sound to your animations so that you get a little bit of that interest in there. Now there's really only one way to add sound to an animation here, although you could, of course, adenine post in your video editor later, but if you want to add it here in PowerPoint, you need to do it from the animation. So I have this gemstone looking thing here. I've applied a basic swivel animation to it. When it comes up, I'd like it to make it sound. The way to do this is under your effect options, there is sound and there are several sounds here that are available to you. So for example, if I choose the coin sound and then I play the animation. Here, it makes that. So you can mess around with a couple of these and see what you get. There's the chyme that might sound good for bringing out a jam or something like that. So that's kind of your options is this list here, of course. And you can get different effects from there, but honestly there aren't very many of them and they aren't all that great, but they will work in a pinch if you just need to add a little bit of interest into your motion graphics, but just make sure that you are matching them appropriately so that the sound actually makes sense with the animation that you've put on there. The other thing that you can do is actually get your own sounds. So if you have access to some kind of sound library or something like that, you can get your own sounds so you can choose other sound. And then it's going to open your Finder so that you can find it. And so for example, I have a sound that sounds similar to the Legend of Zelda, rupee coming out. So that would work well for this gemstone. I'm going to go ahead and insert that here. And then when I play this, it's going to make that rupee sound when it comes out. So you can bring in your own sound, which honestly maybe more useful than using the sounds that PowerPoint provides for you. Always just make sure that it matches. And it's kind of a subtle effect. And it's not drawing away from the actual motion animation that you aren't doing. Okay, that's it for adding sound effects. But in the next video we are going continuous sound by learning how we could add voiceover. 15. Voice Over: Graphics will sometimes have narrations that go along with them. This is especially true of videos that are like explainer videos, animated infographics, or instructional videos. So if you have existing audio that you want to use with your animations, you can go ahead and add that in your video editor after you export your slides as a video. But if you are wanting to record new audio, you can do that directly in PowerPoint, although it's not probably your first choice. I would suggest doing it in the video editor or a dedicated audio program like GarageBand, if you have that option available to you. But if you're just using PowerPoint, you can do this directly in PowerPoint. There's just a couple of quirks that you want to be aware of. So let's go ahead and look at that now, the option to record narration is going to be found on the Slide Show tab. And you have two options here, rehearse timings and Record Slideshow. Now Record slideshow is the one that we're looking for. This is the one where we can actually record the narrations. There's a couple of things that you want to know before that you probably want to have your script all set up beforehand so you know exactly when to say things and then you have to remember that you are recording a slideshow. And so you need to remember to either hit your arrow key or click your mouse whenever it's time to advance to the next animation or the next slide if they aren't set up to advance automatically. So just make sure that you can do that and that it's not going to make noise that can be heard when you are actually recording. So let's go ahead and hit Record. And you can see the way that this looks here. This is the setup. But what it's going to do is it's going to allow you to record the audio and the timings, your transitions, and your animations. It's a couple of things you want to note here. First, you'll want to make sure that your webcam is turned off right here because you don't want to appear on screen while you are doing this recording of your motion graphics. And then you also want to make sure that your microphone is turned on. If your microphone isn't turned on, then you of course, won't get any audio out of it. You can also click this drop-down to make sure your correct microphone is selected. So you can see I'm recording the screencasts using the Blue Snowball, so it recognizes that and it puts that in here first, I also have the iMac microphone, which comes from my computer directly. So if you're using an external mic, you want to make sure that that's selected so that you're getting the best audio possible. This presentation view. So there are a lot of things available to you like laser pointers and drawing options. You don't need to worry about any of that when you're just here to record narration for motion graphics. That's more if you're recording narration for like a lecture or something, when you're ready, you will, of course, go ahead and hit start recording. And one of the things that too absolutely remember is that no audio will record during transitions because audio is attached to a slide. So during a transition, you need to remember to not be talking and just wait until that transition has completely finished before you start talking again because it can't have any audio during those transitions when you click Record, which I'm about to do now, actually go ahead and give you a countdown and then you're able to actually start recording. And of course I can hit the button to get my animation to happen there. Then I'm just going to hit Stop and that will end that. Okay? So once you've done your recording, you can go ahead and hit and show. So you can go through your whole slideshow room, record all of your narration over the top. And then you can see here is that audio that is attached to the slide here. The other thing that you might want to know is if you need to get rid of it, you can always go ahead and you can delete that, or you can go up here to record slideshow. And you can do clear, and you can choose timing on current slide, timings on all sides, which is the advancement and clear narration on current slide and clear narrations on all sides. So that's how you can get rid of it and then you can go back and re-record if you need to, and it's okay if it takes you a couple of takes to get that done, That's totally normal and that's going to be it for recording narration. And now we have learned basically everything that we need to know to create motion graphics. So in the next video, we're going to be looking at a project that I have already made so that you can kind of get an idea for the way that these things come together to create a completed project. 16. Example Project: So here is a project that I did. And you can see this is set up in a nine by 16 aspect ratio. So that can be used in something like Instagram or TikTok or something like that. And we're just going to go through and we're going to see how this product works and how we use some of the various things that we have learned about. So let's just play through this first slide and see what it looks like here. So you can see we have a text animation coming on, a couple of them. And then we're going to have an actual icon come up and do a little bit of animation there. So let's look at this. We've got this one which is a wipe animation, then this one which is a wave animation. And what do we have here happening? So let's watch it. I just quickly again, wave and wipe. So we have them happening essentially at the same time. So you can see that here where it says start its width previous. So these are going to happen together than we have here on your cameras. We have the wipe animation, but down here we have the teeter animation. So that's just giving a slight difference to the way that text is coming up. Then we have our graphic here, which is the camera, and we have a peak in. But I just want you to see that the peak is a little bit different than just like coming up. It comes up halfway, creates kind of a different feel to it. And then we have this grow and shrink animation. And we've actually done some work here in the Effect Options to adjust how far it's going to grow here in the Effect Options can choose if it's going to become bigger or smaller, if it's going go on the horizontal or vertical axis. So I'm adjusting these things to get it to do what I want. And what I want here is I want to just kind of have a natural flow to it so that it just doesn't come in, stop after it peaks in. I don't want to just stop. I wanted there to be a natural bounce to it. You can see here getting that kind of natural flow to it from this smooth starts smooth and then I reverse it so that it goes back down. So it goes up to a 110% and then it goes back down. Fairly simple slide, but you can see there's quite a bit going on with it there. Now let's look at the next one. Let's just see what is happening with transitions here. So with transitions, we've got this fly through that specifically because I want to fly through the aperture of this camera here to get to the next thing. So in order to see this, we're going to have to actually go jump into the slideshow so that you can see how this looks. We have those pop-up camera comes and then when I click to go to the next slide, it actually flies through the camera. And then we get this next slide. So let's go ahead and take a look at what happens here. So we have this text that's going to come and you can see this is a dissolve in, so it's just using a different effect there. And then we have the lamp graphic, which is just one of the icons. So again, that's something you can do very quickly. That's something you could build out our shapes, but there's already an icon for it. So that's pretty easy. And we have that it's doing this stretch as it pops up and then it does a Grow Shrink thing. So let's just watch that stretch, Grow, Shrink out. That just gives it a more natural flow. And then this trapezoid, which is our light, actually appearing as a wipe. So it's wiping down. And of course the placement of it really important being behind the lamp. And then this light here that is actually white on white, so you couldn't see it before. But because the yellow light is placed behind it, when that light comes out, it makes that appear as well. So just watch that one more time. That light appears, but it was actually Always onscreen. So you just have to learn to think creatively in order to get it to do what you want. To figure out, what you want, you really need to be sketching and storyboarding ahead of time so that you figure out what you want to have happen, then you make it happen. And we'll talk more about sketching, storyboarding in the next video. But let's continue going through here. So we have a transition here which is going to be push. Then we have just a couple of animations. So let's watch this through here. And then we just have that push. So it's just kinda pushing it out, sliding in. Then we have our letters dropout and our sensor appear. Here we have our letters. And of course here we're using one of our texts, special ones which is dropped. So let's just watch that again. We're dropping by word so that it doesn't take too long. Then we're just having that rectangle come in with the blinds effect, which is useful because it kind of feels like a shutter, right? So we're playing into the actual material that we're using. Alright, Next, we're going to come here, and this one has a transition of morph. So we actually have of course, the same object here in terms of the sensor rectangle. So it's going to morph there. So let's go ahead and watch that. And sometimes transitions look a little weird when you're just starting in the middle of the slide, but that just makes it easier for us to see it. So you can see that that just morphs up there. This text stays on and then we get our other texts appearing. So let's go look at that. We have this text which is going to come in as a wipe. And then we have our second text, which will also wipe on, but that's only happening after our first text has faded off. So we have these two different things going on here. Then we have this group, which is actually these film strips here. That's just going to slide on and of course that's happening with previous. So that when it says film in the old days, That's also sliding on. So even these simple animations. A little bit of thinking and just making sure that things are ordered correctly and happening at the right time. Timing is really important, so those just fly in. And then of course we're choosing the correct flying direction. So that is coming from the right here. Let's look at what our transition it, it's going to be a post-transition. So it's going to push up from the bottom. You'll probably find yourself using push quite a bit to just move between slides because it just gives that little bit of motion. Here we're going to have, and you can see because this slide is complicated, I have taken the time to name all of these different objects to make sure I know we've got the text and then we've got each of the objects that's involved in that and they need to know what was moving, where and when. So let's watch this one. So you can see there's quite a bit going on at first, we have this sensor coming on and that's just going to appear the same time it's that we're going to get the aperture growing and turning because that's what the aperture is going to do. So we're matching what should be happening there. We have the aperture also spinning and we have the aperture growing and shrinking. So we've got quite a bit of things going on to make this all work. Let's just watch it again. Comes out, grow, shrink while spinning. So we add those all together to create the full effect and we have this shutter speed. So once again, we're going to have that text just come on and then the shutter sensor is going to appear. And then they shutter, which is just this rectangle, is going to use a wipe to just create that very natural field there. And you see this shutter because it's just going to wipe down and then we have the reverse of that to leave, which is the wipe. That just creates very much that sugary feel to it. Lastly, we have the ISO, so we have the ISO texts that's just going to wipe across. And then we have the ISO sensor, and then we have the ISO grain. So these are actually two separate objects. And we just need to apply different things to them so that they work correctly. So the grain we're using to dissolve in. So if you want to see that, that's actually a separate object that we are using to create this effect. So it looks like it's one thing, but they're actually stacking on top of each other. Then we have this exposure triangle. And the exposure triangle, it's going to use a morph transition. Why? Because it uses the same text. So let's take a look at that. And you can see that text moves. And so that creates a natural smooth transition between those two slides. So let me see the exposure triangle. But then in the exposure triangle, you can see we don't actually have any animation. We just use that morph. And then this last one where the logo is going to start appearing, we use this split transition and then we're going to animate each of these objects separately. So these are actually two text boxes because they need separate animations. And then these letters that are going to form the logo are actually the exact same letters at the exact same size sat on top of it. These letters are just set to appear so that they are just there and nobody knows they're there. But when we get to this piece will be ready. So using our morph transition, again, those letters will be able to come together. So let's watch that so you can kind of see what's happening. So those appear. And then we're using that morph transition to get that be in that D to stay. So what else is happening here? What we're actually animating a little pie shape here that we have control this placement using the yellow handles. So let me zoom in on that so you can see we've got our pie and we can control the placement here. So how do we keep that angle from showing up? Well, we've actually placed another white circle object on top of it just to hide it so that its size and its a hacking our way around it. But we're using that pie shape because it works for what we want, because we want this opening. We're not animating the white circle, but we are animating the pie shape with this wheel effect. So that's the perfect effect for this. And then we have our last slide. Let me show you here are transition is none. Why do we not have a transition here? Because they look exactly the same. The ending of slide eight and the beginning of slide down and look exactly the same. There doesn't need to be in a transition there. All we need is to take this group because we want it to work as a group and not as separate objects. That's why we need a new slide. And we want this group to have this basic zoom out so that we just have it disappear and that's how we end it. Again, this is not a very long video, but it does get complex as you start adding in animations. And you really need to know what you wanna do ahead of time, which is why in the next video we'll be talking about storyboarding. And you don't need to feel like you need to do something to this depth your project for the project video, I'm going to show you how I did this logo animation step-by-step. And that's more of what I expect you to use, something that's about three seconds long for your first project. Fairly simple compared to all of this that might be going on. Now you're welcome, of course, to do a project this in-depth if you want to. But I know that can be intimidating when you're first starting out, so don't worry about doing something that much. I think a simple logo animation is perfect for your first project and I will walk you through how I made this. But first, let's go ahead and look at how I would storyboard it. 17. Storyboarding: So this looks a little bit different because now that we're familiar with all of the different aspects of motion graphics in PowerPoint, it's time for us to start working on our actual project. First thing that we need to do is storyboard. So I'm actually on the iPad just so that you can easily see me drawing. Normally when I sketch or storyboard, I'm actually doing this on sticky notes or index cards, something that's very easy to toss away ideas. This is an app called concepts. It's an infinite canvas app, so it's pretty easy to just go forever making ideas which can read dangerous. You don't want to go on too long with this, but you do want to get a good idea of what you're going to do here. Just to remind you, this project doesn't need to be anything super complex. It just needs to show that you can use all of the different kinds of animations and transitions. And it needs to be at least three seconds long. So not a lot. You want to really get through your ideas here, storyboarding and sketching our critical processes as you work through your ideas. So please make sure you don't skip this. Don't think that you have some idea in your head that you can just jump into PowerPoint and start making it. It doesn't work that way because you don't really get the idea fully realized until you've sketched it out and you don't figure out how you really want the motion to happen until you start putting it down on paper. So let's go ahead and let's just look at how we would do this. So generally when your storyboard and you're just going to draw a little thumbnails and you're going to make them at least in the orientation that you would want. So this is a horizontal orientation and this will be a vertical orientation and they're just little thumbnails. And then you're going to put on what you want and you're going do it scene by scene. Basically, you can break it down as close as you need to in order to really get the motion that you need out of it. So mine is going to be pretty simple. I'm going to be doing a logo animation. You've already seen a logo animation for me. I'm going to show you how I sketched it out and also how I would ideate on that. First off, I know that my logo is the B and the D forming the glasses. So I know that. So I just kind of have that out there. And I can say, well, what do I want it to do? Well, I can kind of give it motion. I can say that could go that way and then I could have the letters appear and I'll just make another thumbnail here. And if the beam moves that way, then I can have the other letters appear and then I'll just show that they come out like this. And then these ones can come out like this. And it doesn't matter if things are spelled right or if they look like a certain kind of font, or even if they really look like the objects they represent. What's important is that you know, what's happening there. So I can get these different kinds of ideas down and you just want to ideate on that and see different things. So I would go something like put a circle around it and show that the circle is going to appear like this. And I just use different kinds of arrows, were different markings to show different kinds of things. Like, let's say that I wanted to do one here where I was then going to have these just fade. So I might just kinda dash them out. And then I would just write fade here so they get some idea for what I want to have happening here. So let's go ahead and let storyboard out what I want to have actually happen. So I'm going to start with the words on screen and then I'm going to want to have this be moving and these to disappear. So I'll just X them through and just say disappear. Then the next one, I'll just have the B and the D coming together. And then the circle like that. And I'll put the arrow and I'll just write draw on. And then my last frame here. When you put that and then I'm going to say arrows going in and just say zoom away. So they know what that means. And it's important at this stage that you don't get too hung up on what you think powerpoint can do. We've seen in the PowerPoint can do a lot of things, but you don't want to get hung up on thinking about specific animations or specific transitions at this point, you really want get your idea out and you want to go into PowerPoint and you want to try and make it work. And that's a much better way to express your creativity then to try and think, well, what can PowerPoint do and then build inside of that, you can always scale it back later, but you can't always a better, bigger idea later. So try and get your ideas really out here on paper where nothing is telling you you can't do it. And then when you get into PowerPoint, you'll be surprised at how often you can find a way to actually make it happen. So you storyboarding to solidify the ideas that you have floating around your head. You storyboarding to reject bad ideas, ideas that don't work, and also select those ideas that seemed to have promised. Remember, it's not about the art looking good at this point. It's really just about your ideas getting out onto paper so that you can evaluate them. Alright, now that we've storyboarded in the next video, we're going to go into PowerPoint and we're actually going to make this project. 18. Making the Project: Right, with your Storyboarding done now you are ready to actually begin making your projects. So let's go ahead and go through this together. And this storyboard will give you an idea of what you want to get done. And then it's just a matter of translating that into something that PowerPoint can do for mine. We're going start with the text on screen, so the text is going to appear. We want to do that with a textbox, so we're just going to drag out a text box. Then I'm going to change that to the font that I used, which is quicksand. And then I'm just going to go ahead and bump up that size there and probably make it centered. So there's a lot of back-and-forth with this trying different things. So right now I have all my texts in one text box. So that might be useful if I want to animate it all on at the same time, but I won't be able to animate each word separately if I want them all in one text box. So as I'm thinking about this, I'm going to need to add the b and the d because I want to be in the details remain on screen. So I've got to think through what I want to have happen here. Let's go ahead and bumped up that size a little bit more. While we're thinking about this, motion graphics is a problem-solving process. You just thinking through what needs to be done. I probably want each of these words to be separate. I'm going to actually go ahead and take designs and I'm just going to cut that and then I'm just going to paste it. I don't know why I pasted at a much smaller size, but we can just look at what size this one is and then change this one to match. Let's go ahead and shrink this down. And then we will use our alignment tools to get these to line up, arrange, and then align, and then align middle. I'm just going to bring this in and this in. And you can see these guides appear to help me make sure that I'm putting these in the right spot. I really want that d to be where it's going to end up. So right there in the middle because the B is going to be just right next to it when the main logo comes on, I'm looking up here in the side to see what it looks like here and it doesn't look very good because it's off centered. Now if I want this to be centered because they're not the same, then that means the d is actually going to have to move later. And I think I'm okay with that, but in order to get the centered correctly, I'm actually going to group them together. So Command Option G to group them together. Now I know where the center is right there. And I can go ahead and choose a range, a line, and just align center. And that will center it because there's only one group selected, it will center it on the slide itself. So not smack in the middle of slide, which is exactly where I want it to be. It's also in the middle of the slide. Technically, you can see that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because of the way they do textbox and PowerPoint. Going to make more sense if we put the middle right on that line, right there. So we'll just use our arrow keys to nudge that down. Now we're going to go ahead and ungroup it. Right-click Group, Ungroup or Command Shift Option G, because we want to animate each one separately. We also need to get our b and r d out. Let's go ahead and we'll just make a copy of each of these are an easy way to copy is just to hit Command C and Command V. Then for this we're just going to take our letters and get rid of them. And then we'll just position this one exactly over the top of the beat. We want to get that as exact as possible just by nudging it with our arrow keys. And this is where it's really useful to know what powerpoint can do, right? Because I know I'm going to want that being that D together and I know that the easiest way to make this happen is going to be a morph transition. We're just going to put the b and the d right where they should be with all of our texts on this slide in place. And this is going to be pretty simple for us to make hat. We're just going go ahead and add our animation. Do a wipe. Okay, but obviously we don't want to come from the bottom. We want this one coming from the right. And then we want this one to be a wipe transition. Now one thing that we haven't talked about is the animation painter, and that's where we can take an animation from one thing and apply it to another. So in this case, we're just going to grab our animation painter from right here and paint it onto the ban. Need to make sure that we change the direction of the wipe for the bend. So let's click on the bend. And then we of course want this to come from the left and we want to preview this mixture. It's going as we want to, and of course we want these to come at the same time. So we're going go ahead and click on Ben right here. And we're going to change this under timing to be with previous. Now we want to see them. Here we go same time then of course, the reason it looks like the b and d are there is because we've put them on top. So all we need to do is make it so those ones appear later and we're just going to irregular appear where nothing happens because it's just gonna happen without them seeing it because for them to be in the D will already be on screen. We just need those objects in place for the Morph transition. Okay, so let's go ahead and click on here. Let's grab our animation painter, supplier animation to the d. And then of course, we can just make these both happen after previous. So we want the B to happen after, and then we want the D to happen with the B. Okay, Now let's watch the whole thing. That's all there is to this first one. It's pretty easy. Then we just need to copy our be nRT over to the next slide. So I'm just going click and then Shift and click. So we have both of them selected Command C. Then we'll go up to the Insert tab, choose New Slide, blank and Command V. Now this is where we're going to position them for where they should be after the Morph transition. But we want to get rid of these animations because we don't need those anymore. The Morph transition will take care of that. So click shift, click to select both, and then click the X. Get rid of it. Let's put the d right here. Let's put the be nice and close to. It. Looks like somehow we got unlined up here, some difference in our text box size. So the easiest way to do this is to put them on a grid line so that we can easily see if they are lined up. Make sure that we group these together temporarily. Command Option G and see if we can't waste them exactly the right spot. And then Command Shift Option G. Now we just want to test our transition here. So let's go to transition and choose morph. And then we just want to make sure that those are coming together. Yes. And they are not in line with where the text was before, so we need to make sure that we line them up with that. Okay, so we have our morph transition in place and now we need to add in the circle that's going to go around them. So let me go to Insert. And you remember I showed this to you before, but instead of using a circle, I actually was using the pie shape. So let's go ahead and grab the pie shape right here. And the reason we're using a pie shape is because there can be a gap in it and a circle, there isn't a gap. So you can't actually see a circle spinning because even when it's spinning, it looks exactly like a complete circle so you can't see anything. So we're going to take the pie shape and we're actually going to draw that out. And we want to draw from the center. So hold down control and we want to draw a perfect circle. So we're going to hold Shift. Obviously we want this to be behind, so we're just going to go to our selection paint and we're going to move the Pi behind the text box, select our Pi, which might have to do from our selection pane. And we're going to get rid of our fill. We'll go to no fill and we're going to make our outline be black so that it matches. We can go ahead and open up our Format Shape paints. So let's go here to Format Shape. And this is where we can work with our line. Of course we wanted the line to be thicker. We want it to be pretty close to the line of our B and D, just so that they look similar than we can also modify this based on our little yellow handles here. So we're going to drag this up here and we can change our join type here round and just see what that looks like. So now we have a little bit of a round edge here up at the top. So that will look a little bit more natural. And of course we want this to come on and we want it to spin back to the selection pane, just select it. So we're going to animate this and do not get frustrated if animating things takes a little bit of time, that's really normal in any animation program for animating. So take a little time because you have to work out what you need to do on your end in order to make it do what you have on your storyboard. Because I did this before. I know that what I used was the wheel. The wheel you can see draws on that. So it draws around the whole thing and you have a few effect options here, basically just the number of spokes that you have. So I'll just show you what that will look like if you had two, they're fairly simple here. We really only want one spoken this scenario, but we want the whole thing to move to. This is where you really have to be able to combine animations together to get something to happen. And in order to have multiple animations on an object, you first have to click off on the side so that the animation is no longer selected. Then click back on the object. So you want to make sure that that animation is not selected because otherwise you will replace it. Then we're going to go to our emphasis. To remember, you do need an entrance and emphasis and an Exit animation ended transition. So we already have our transition. We have some entrance ones. Now we need an emphasis. So using our emphasis here, we are going to go ahead and select Spin because we want the circle to spin wall, it's coming on. So right now it's just spinning. But we really wanted to spin While it is coming on, right? And so in order to do that, we just need to change under our timing, we need to change this to width previous, so that these will happen together. So let's click Play. You can see that it's spinning while it is drawing it on. So that's really useful. Now of course, this doesn't look right because there's this wedge in the middle. We want the gap, but we don't want the wedge. So what do we have to do here? Well, in order to make this work, we're actually going to need to draw another circle in the middle to cover that up. And this kind of a hack, but it will work and it will get done what we need to have done. So let's go ahead and go to our Insert shape. And then we're going to circle. We're just going to try and draw out as close to the center as possible here, laying down control, just coming out until we're about the same size as our pie trend line that up there. And of course we want our fill to be white. Now this only works because we were on a white background, obviously wanted this to be transparent. This particular method won't work and we would have to find something else, go to our selection pane. And let's move this just above the pie. It looks like we still have an outline on there. So let's go to Shape outline and say No Outline. Now, it's a little bit wonky here because the line is not as thick as it was before, so we have to bring it in. So holding down control again, we're going to bring this in just a little bit and we just have to play with it a little bit. I'm going to zoom in here by holding down Control and scrolling. And we're always going to re-size from the center. It's good to have your selection pane up so that it's easy to work with different objects in their stacking order so that you can make sure you get the right one, okay, and that it's probably as close as we're going get now remember, this white circle has no animations on it currently, but we need to see how this animation plays through and how the transition place through to make sure that we don't need to tweak this circle in any way. So let's go ahead and click Play. Now what's happening here is where the wheel is coming. It's creating like a little dash there now, you might be fine with that. That might look okay and I absolutely loved the way it looks. So we're going to see if we can adjust our pi just a little bit. Maybe this way, then this way, and see what we get in that animation. So that made it worse. So that means we need to go the other way. And again, like I said, this is just about tweaking things. Finding where the right balance is. Oh, perfect. That one looks great. So there we have that. Now let's check our transition and make sure that white circle isn't going to mess up our transition. Basically, we just wanted to make sure that we couldn't see anything with the white circle when we transitioned in through the morph and it looks like we cannot. So the next thing that we need to do is just go ahead and we just need to add in the exit. We are going to go ahead and duplicate this slide and we're going to make a group out of this whole thing command Option G. When we make a group, it gets rid of all of those animations that we duplicate it. So we don't have to worry about that anymore, but we do need to get rid of this morph transition. So we're just going to click None on the Morph because it's, it's fine. It's already where we want it to be. So then we just need to apply the animation that we want here. So this is going to be our Exit animation. And what we want is for it to zoom in and disappear. So we're going to choose the Zoom. Now, it looks like we have a little bit of a problem here. And that is that Zoom animation has some transparency on it so that when it actually zooms in, the white circle starts to disappear. And we can see that pie shape appearing and we don't want that. So this of course is just where it takes a little bit trial and error to figure out what you need and what you want. I believe that that center part on the Zoom where it looks pink is indicating the transparency. So we want to look for somebody who does something similar but doesn't have that. So they sink down. And it's always worth clicking just to see what it looks like. It looks like that apply some transparency to. There's this one called the basic Zoom here. Let's click that one and it looks like that one has no transparency. So that one does exactly what we want it to do. So now let's go through and let's just watch each of these and make sure that they work. So that one, I felt like it's a little bit fast. So we're gonna go ahead and we're going to slow that down in our timing. We're going to change that duration to 1 second. See what it looks like. Again, it's just a lot of changing things, watching it, seeing if it works where you've seen if it matches what you were trying to get from your storyboard. Okay, that's much better. Now, let's watch the next one. Okay. And I feel like that It's just going a little bit fast for me. So I want to slow that down. Let's see what it might be, the number of spins that's happening. So let's open up our Effect Options and see if we have this should be 360. I'm gonna change that to a half spin. See what that does. Yeah, so that one probably is the best, but it's worth just adjusting the timing a little bit because tweaking things can make little subtle differences there. Let's go ahead and just watch this 11 more time. Looks good. And then we will put the whole thing in presentation mode and watch the whole thing. Our actual animation work. Instead, of course, we could go in and we could add sound effects if we need to, but that's not required for the project. It's just something you can do if it makes sense. And we could add in voice-over, lad is also not required for your project. You just need to know that you can do it if you need to. So now that we've made our project in the next video, we're going to talk about exporting this as a video. 19. Exporting: We've gone ahead and made our animation. Now it's time to export it with a file that we can use some place. And this is something that a lot of people don't realize that PowerPoint can actually export video. So let's go ahead and do that. We're just going to come up to File and choose Export. And when we do that, we're going to come to file format and we can choose MP4 or MOV. I'm going to choose MOV and we want this set to presentation quality. So it takes the quality from our presentation, which in this case is 1920 by 1080, which is an HD setting. And that's a lot of times with the timeline you'll be using. You can of course, adjust this if you need to. There's this option here for timing, which you've recorded timing and iterations. If you recorded voice-over like we talked about, you need to make sure that that box is checked. Now we haven't recorded any voiceover in this presentation, and so we don't even have the option to check that box. And then here I'm just going to change the second set on each slide without a timing to one. We don't have any without timings because all of ours have animations on them. But we're going to set that to one just in case. Then we're just going go ahead and click Export. And it will go ahead and it will make our movie for us. Now once it's done, we can come and we can actually open that up and we can see it. There. You have it that six seconds and it does L of the things that we needed to do for it to qualify for our projects. So what do you need to do next? You need to just go ahead and upload that to a platform like YouTube or Vimeo, or some kind of storage like Box or Drive or Dropbox so that you can place a link to that in your Skillshare project. Please make sure that you actually do take the time to export it and turn it into a video so that you can then actually share it with us in the project section for this course. I'm so excited to see what you make. In the next video, we're going to talk about your next steps. And if you've enjoyed this course, please go ahead and leave it to review so that other people can also find this course and learn more about creating motion graphics in PowerPoint. I'm looking forward to seeing your projects, so please do take the time to go ahead and bring those in. But again, Skillshare can't accept video files, so you do need to put it somewhere else and then put a link in your Skillshare project. And in the next video we'll talk about your next steps. 20. Next Steps: So much for taking this course on creating motion graphics in PowerPoint, I hope that you've enjoyed it and that you've learned a lot. I can't wait to see your projects, so please make sure you go ahead and submit those. Now let's talk a little bit about what your next steps might be. I think the next step for most people at this point is to practice, again, really motion graphics. Take a long time to wrap your mind around. You have to go through that process of storyboarding, envisioning what your motion might look like, and then figuring out how to actually implement that motion in the program. So that's why I'm going to say you should do, you should do a couple of more projects making motion graphics in PowerPoint so that you can start to wrap your mind around how this works. Now, if this is something that is really interesting, you, you might want to dive into some different options as well or learn some new ways to apply these skills. I have a couple of other courses that deal with animation. One is for the iPad. It uses keynote, which all iPads have to create animated titles and other animations for use in the video editing software luma fusion. So you can check that out if you want to do a little bit more like traditional animation hands-on kind of stuff. You can check out my course that is an intro to animation in Procreate, which helps you learn how to do some simple animations on the iPad. The other thing that you really might want to do if you're getting into motion graphics is up your graphic design game. So it really is about creating graphic designs and then adding motion to them. So I have a lot of courses here that can help you with up in your graphic design game. If you haven't already gone through my basics courses, you really want to check those out because those will be tremendously helpful to you. You want to learn the first four core principles of design, which I have a whole course on. Then you want to learn more about sketching we talked a little bit about in this course, but I have a whole course going on why you sketch and design and how to do it. So you might want to check that out. And then it's really about working with shapes, motion graphics as you've seen, we work with shapes a lot. And so you can check out my design basics course on shapes as well. All of those are great next steps for you to take on your design journey. Alright, remember if you have any questions at all, you can always jump into the discussion tab and talk to me there. I'm so excited to see what you produce and I will see you in the next course.