Engage your audience and keep them concentrating on the points you are going to make. Give your powerpoint presentation an additional touch of creativity by applying these 5 powerpoint animation effects to your slides today:
- Entrance/Exit Animation Effects
Entrance animations can be applied to text and objects by choosing the text or object you want animated and visiting the Animations tab in Powerpoint. Under the animations group of options, choose on Animation effect from gallery. This will enable you to see the list of animation effects available for your selection. Click on more options to view the full list of options you can choose from. If you want to make customisations to how you animate, you can further choose effect options. Choose the timing you want the animation effect to last for your entrance animation.
- Sound Effects
To add emphasis, you can make use of sound effects in Powerpoint for your animated texts and objects. Locate the Animations tab from your Powerpoint software and choose Advanced animation. You will then be able to choose the animation pane and open it on the side to reveal order and duration of animation effects that are being applied. Pick effect options and look for enhancements, this shall enable you to choose soundbox. You will then be able to select a list of sounds and even upload your own sounds!
- Motion Path
Combine animation effects with motion paths to create complicated animations. Choose the object or text to be animated and look for the Motion Paths option under the Animations tab. You will then be able to choose what motion paths you wish to have. The motion paths will appear with clear dotted lines for users to track the progress and make changes to settings. The beginning is noted in green whereas the ending is in red. You can even opt to draw a motion path out for yourself!
- Transitions
To proceed onto the next slides, occasionally adding transitions to ensure that there are a smooth flow between the changing of your slides can be good since they serve as a visual engagement to keep audiences interested. Make sure to use this occasionally and not in every slide, because that would make things predictable, even boring. Transitions should be kept quick and smooth for minimal drag and better process of your presentation.
- Resources
If you want to go above and beyond the general animation effects found in Powerpoint, there are many resources to choose from for additionally developed Powerpoint animations- for example, pokemon go animations styles, hologram animation styles and more! You can even visit the official powerpoint website for more resources to try out.
