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Nice Bar Chart

Often we create our own charts, not from the charting engine, but from shapes, text, and graphics. Of course, this is for highly visual presentations that we know are not going to rely on charts with data and can be adjusted for use in other presentations. So, this is as much about animation as slide content styling. Before the animation example, I want to show the design for the nice bar chart. Each bar is comprised of 4 graphic elements: red box with text top aligned, grey box with text bottom aligned, grey outline (no fill box), and a black line.

 nice bar chart

Here are the animated bar charts (sample video has 2 slides with visual bar charts, client content removed, and for example here only).

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By |2019-10-30T06:00:52-07:00May 21st, 2018|PowerPoint|

Carousel Motion Effect

Using the same slides as the previous Morph transition, this version of the Carousel Motion Effect uses big bold photos, and includes a nice PowerPoint reflection styling.

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The animation in the video was completed on 7 slides, with no animation pane “animation.” Also included in the animation effect was the progress bar – equally easy to setup and animate with Morph.

Carousel Motion Effect

 

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By |2019-10-28T10:02:59-07:00May 18th, 2018|PowerPoint|

Carousel Effect

Using the Morph transition and 3D models this “Carousel Effect” is quick and easy to create.

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The animation in the video was completed on 6 slides, with no animation pane “animation.” Note: Each car not only moves and resizes, but also rotates from a 3/4 front left view to a 3/4 front right view as it moves across the screen. All animation was as simple as re-positioning the images, adjusting the rotation of the 3D models and applying  a Morph transition.

Carousel Effect

 

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By |2019-10-30T06:01:22-07:00May 16th, 2018|PowerPoint|

Membership Animation Example

PowerPoint animations often depend on which motion effect is needed. For this membership animation example, the request was to emphasis each segment of the pie chart for discussion points (again, we simplified the slide for the blog by removing client information, template and styling). Because the numbers are constantly updating, our goal was to animate the editable pie chart vs. creating custom shapes and animating.

The formatting was simple, adjust pie chart and callout text size/position. For this effect, the Morph transition really did not accomplish a clean modern motion effect. A series of Fade transitions was a bit nicer than the Morph transition, but it still did not achieve a visual we liked. Ultimately, using the Shape (circle) out transition achieved a visual effect we liked.

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By |2019-12-11T15:48:23-08:00May 14th, 2018|PowerPoint|

Membership Animation

This is a membership animation slide from a recent project that demonstrates how to use animation to aid the presenter (we removed the nice template and styling). The message for the audience was that a very niche and exclusive association had exceeded all membership goals for the year. Rather than putting up a list of stats, we helped the presenter walk the audience through their 5 year story at their own pace with on-click animations and reveal the year-to-date total.

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The animation could be accomplished many ways, but the easiest way was to leverage Morph by splitting the original content across 7 slides, each slide transition being an animation. Easy to create, easy to manage, easy for the presenter to see the story flow.

membership animation

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By |2019-10-30T06:03:34-07:00May 11th, 2018|PowerPoint|

A Month of Groundhog Days

Happy Ground Hog Day – February 2nd!

As with the tradition of Ground Hog Day, this month we are taking this (boring) slide and doing a presentation makeover on it every blog post. The goal is to show how the same content can be interpreted into many layouts.

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By |2018-01-29T11:55:02-08:00February 2nd, 2018|PowerPoint|

Animating the TLC Logo as a 3D Model in PowerPoint

Just more fun, and a great example of using 3D models as part of the slide content created by Wanda on the TLC Creative presentation design team. This mini-presentation combines custom 3D models of the TLC Creative logo, images and PowerPoint text. With motion created with a combination of Morph and on-slide animations.

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By |2019-10-30T06:04:59-07:00January 31st, 2018|PowerPoint|

3D Model As Animated Slide Content

3D Models should be thought of as “standard” design images for the layouts. As example, this fun presentation is a mix of .png images, a 3D model and animation. The 3D model is not obvious it is 3D until its animation.

The animation was created in just 5 slides.

Content was a large background image, a .png image for the fairy wand, a lot of .png sparkle images, and a great 3D model of a pumpkin. 

Slides 2-3-4-5 use a morph transition + on-slide animation. Slide 4, with lots of magic sparkles uses a morph transition and over 350 PowerPoint animations to create the effect!

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By |2023-10-09T14:51:19-07:00January 29th, 2018|PowerPoint|

3D Model On-Slide Turntable Animation

Here is a demo of the new 3D Model TURNTABLE animation created by Christie on the TLC Creative design team. The Turntable animation adds a 3D rotation, of a 3D model, that can be once, twice or endless as an on-slide emphasis animation.

For this demo the Microsoft logo 3D model logo was sourced from Remix 3D.

There are only 2 slides in the demo presentation, each for a specific task.

Slide 1 has the TURNTABLE 3D model only animation applied, with a rotation RIGHT and set to continue until end of slide. 

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Each 3D Model animation has a number of options. As example, changing the DIRECTION from the original RIGHT to DOWN. To change the effects of the animations, select the 3D model, click the Effects Options drop down, and the menu shows all available variations for direction, type of rotation and where the rotation axis is. 

Now the same slide animation looks like this

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Slide 2 is how this could be used in a real-world presentation. With slide 1 the logo has a never-ending rotation continue while the presenter introduces the topic. Then with a click to advance to slide 2, a morph transition to seamlessly moves and shrinks the logo to the right side of the screen while presentation content (the bullet list text) enters. And then for fun we used another new 3D model only animation, Jump & Turn, on the Microsoft logo in its new position.

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By |2019-10-30T06:07:02-07:00January 26th, 2018|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

3D Model Maze Animation

Just experimenting with 3D models and how they can be animated in PowerPoint is exciting and fun for me, because it is new options, new rules, and new visuals. For fun I wanted to create a 3D Virtual Fly Through style animation. Things did not work how I originally intended (we are definitely limited when it comes to moving the camera view inside a 3D model in PowerPoint vs. other 3D specific software). Here is the 3D model of a maze sourced from Remix 3D.

The final presentation is 21 slides, all motion (except the first and last slides) accomplished with repositioning the 3D model, using the 3D View ball, 3D Pan & Zoom and Morph transition.

The final result is a simpler, but still amazing (pun intended!) motion graphic.

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By |2019-10-30T06:05:37-07:00January 22nd, 2018|PowerPoint|
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