The PowerPoint® Blog

I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and I am very honored to be a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. We have a talented team of presentation designers at TLC Creative Services and ThePowerPointBlog is our area to highlight PowerPoint tips, tricks, examples and tutorials. Enjoy! Troy Chollar

Using Prezi’s Unique Animation

This month is focused on animation. TLC does a number of presentations each year developed for clients in Prezi. The presentation design and storyboarding need to be approached a bit different than PowerPoint. One of the primary draws of using Prezi is its unique animation (motion). This is an internally developed sample Prezi presentation:

[prezi url=”https://prezi.com/pk62jnw-q9ev/” width=”550″ height=”400″ zoom_freely=”N” ]

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:53:55-07:00January 12th, 2014|Portfolio|

“Smartphone” Chat Animation (Portfolio)

This is one animation section of a large show presentation. The goal was to visually recreate a smartphone chat look made up of user feedback on recent hotel stays, showing the power of Social Media today to influence others, friends and strangers alike. A fairly easy animation to develop in After Effects, Flash, and many other applications. Not as easy in PowerPoint’s animation, but the end result turned out great:

The slide development required first getting the visual elements approved. Then, developing the animation and having it approved. The animation is deceptively simple with a few motion paths on each slide. But it also required exact pixel accurate placement of each visual for seamless slide-to-slide animation and careful attention to the layer order of the elements.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2025-04-01T11:11:57-07:00January 3rd, 2014|Portfolio|

Happy New Year 2014!!

Start of new year, start of lots of great new projects and time to take down the holiday lights! TLC Creative Services has a team of incredible presentation designers ready for 2014!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:56:07-07:00January 1st, 2014|Personal|

2014 Color of the Year

Funny thing happened this weekend while at the local Home Improvement store – I learned the official 2014 Color of the Year! Not what you would expect to learn while looking for light fixtures, lumber and nails. But there it was, right up front near the check out registers, 4′ high in the paint department.

Each year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color of the year, and that selection has a big impact on design, art and fashion. 2014 is the year of “Radiant Orchid” – guess I better start working that into some template designs!

Radiant Orchid is “an invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today’s society.” It is “an enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones… (that) inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health.” Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone Color Institute director.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:56:40-07:00December 30th, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Presentation Animation – 6 (Portfolio)

Here is a collection of slides from a presentation makeover project that highlight some of our “simple” animation that is subtle enough to work in a very corporate environment.

 

Video above is these slides. Note the first animation uses slide transitions for the animation effect and making it easy for the presenter to review the presentation on printouts and “see” the animations.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2021-05-13T09:40:43-07:00December 27th, 2013|Portfolio|

Merry Christmas From TLC!

Everyone here at TLC Creative Services, Inc. wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Images from our fun staff Holiday lunch and gift exchange (thanks for the incredible wrapping and ribbon Josh!).

By |2016-08-10T09:58:50-07:00December 25th, 2013|Personal|

Business Owner One-Sheet (Portfolio)

This print project came to us as a folder of scanned images, Word documents and PDFs. TLC Creative Services took all of the information and content and crafted it into a print-ready document that displayed the information in a stylized layout.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:59:25-07:00December 23rd, 2013|Portfolio|

Star Wars Template (Portfolio)

With the Star Wars franchise rebooting, we have had some very fun projects focused on the Star Wars universe. Here is one of the dynamic PowerPoint templates we were excited to develop.

This template also featured a “flowing lava” effect on the left edge, which was accomplished with layering .png images and looping video.
video. The glowing light sabers is all PowerPoint animation.

[youtube src=”https://youtube.com/embed/SfyWbroK_oM?rel=0″]

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:00:00-07:00December 20th, 2013|Portfolio|
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