The Art of PowerPoint-ing : PowerPoint Heaven

PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2008

tohlz — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:39:00 GMT

PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2008 is a day where PowerPointers get together to discuss, review and submit their latest PowerPoint works. PPTH eCon 2008 (abbrev.) is an annual online convention, which will be held on 27 September, a month after PowerPoint Heaven Anniversary.

There are several events for PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2008. The events include: eCon Awards 2008, Contributor of the Year, Submissions @ eCon, Discussions @ eCon. Check out PPTH eCon 2008 now for more information!

The eConvention starts off with the voting of eCon Awards 2008: Animation/Artwork/Game/Broadcast of the Year, which involves works submitted on PowerPoint Heaven in year 2008. The voting process is a pre-eCon event starting from 1 - 26 September. Vote for the Animation/Artwork/Game/Broadcast of the Year now! Winners will be announced on 27 September.

PowerPoint Heaven 3rd Anniversary

tohlz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:52:00 GMT

PowerPoint Heaven 3rd Anniversary! Time files, and PowerPoint Heaven is now 3 years old. It feels really good to see PowerPoint animations, games and artworks getting better and better over the past 3 years. In recent years, you can slowly see a wide variety of games coming up. Here's a few examples of PowerPoint games by fellow hardcore PowerPointers: Pointer's Way (maze game) by Mohammad Ahmed Fikree, Music ver. C (music rhythm game) by KDC, Ultimate Sniper (shooting game) by Ted Thayer, and the upcoming highly anticipated Eight Eclipse (RPG game) by Anthony Barfield.

Artworks are catching up quickly. With the introduction of PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board, you can see a significant improvement and interest on drawing techniques. Several works by our board members (Alex F, Ben Belford, James Niedfeldt and Zum Zum) have also made their way to PowerPoint Heaven Contributors' pool. Also, not to forget our PowerPoint Artworks Specialist, Jeremiah Lee, with his recent work Squall 3D, which has proved to the PowerPoint community that PowerPoint can be a very good drawing platform.

We have also receive large amount of submissions from Korea's PowerPoint Expert Club, all thanks to Mr. Francis Lee, Admin of PowerPoint Expert Club and a former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, who has been assisting us in communicating with the cafe's members. Contributors from PowerPoint Expert Club have created magnificent masterpieces. Of all the masterpieces, one which is definitely worth mentioning, is Optimus Prime 3D by anubis0129, showing how the head of Optimus Prime from Transformers can be drawn and animated in 3D, all in PowerPoint.

Behind this success is all the PowerPoint Heaven contributors who have been spending millions of hours in exploring the depth of PowerPoint and contributing to the PowerPoint Entertainment community. Since the set up of PowerPoint Heaven, we now have 25 contributors who are constantly maximizing PowerPoint's capabilities. We sincerely appreciate their efforts and contributions. Without them, PowerPoint is simply a presentation tool :)

To celebrate this anniversary, we present you 3 new updates:
PowerPoint Game, Pixel Scene by Anthony Barfield.
PowerPoint Artwork, Kuchiki Byakuya by Boo Jia Hao.
PowerPoint Tutorial, Realistic Walk by Zum Zum.

Coming up next will be the PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2008, our first eConvention. Stay tuned and get ready to vote for the Animation/Artwork/Game of the year!
Check out the PPTH eCon 2008 forum for more information.

PowerPoint Heaven RSS Feed now available

tohlz — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:08:00 GMT

PowerPoint Heaven now offers RSS Feed. For those geeks who use feed readers often, you can now subscribe to the feed and get PowerPoint Heaven's latest updates at: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/rssfeed.xml. The link is also accessible through PowerPoint Heaven frontpage and news section. RSS Feed may replace news section in the near future.

For those who are still confuse, asking "what on earth is rss feed?", you can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss

RSS Feed on web browsers: If you are using IE7, Firefox or Opera web browser, accessing the rss url provided will allow you to subscribe to the feed. IE 6 will give you alien language, unless you know how to read it.

PowerPoint Heaven Year 2008 Updates

tohlz — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:54:00 GMT

First updates for Year 2008!

Added 3 new PowerPoint Showcases from the members of PowerPoint Expert Club:

AutoShapes Art: Inspiration, by pso2850. AutoShapes Art: Inspiration is an inspiring piece of artwork done using PowerPoint AutoShapes and well synchronized with the beat of the music.
Text Animations: Marry Me - KDC, by KDC. Featuring advanced text animations mirroring an excerpt of Ellegarden's (a Japanese rock band) motion video, Marry Me.
Text Animations: Marry Me - Bugycraxone, by Bugycraxone. Another similar showcase featuring advanced text animations making use of the lyrics in Ellegarden's Marry Me.

Added new PowerPoint Artworks, Vita, by Zzangdol, which shows an anime character, Vita, fishing besides the pond.

PowerPoint Heaven wishes you a Happy New Year!

PowerPoint Game - Widgets

tohlz — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:26:00 GMT

PowerPoint Game, Widgets, by Anthony Barfield is out. The goal of this game is to get to the end point without hitting the laser enclosing you in. Be careful though, colorful Widgets are blocking your way!

PowerPoint Game - Ultimate Sniper

tohlz — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:04:00 GMT

New PowerPoint Game, Ultimate Sniper has been released on PowerPoint Heaven. Ultimate Sniper is a PowerPoint shooting game. The objective of this game is to accept missions, assassinate your opponents and become the ultimate sniper.

The current version is intended for PowerPoint 2007 and above. (Not including PowerPoint Viewer 2007)

Download: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/ted.html#UltimateSniper
Watch the video preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBM2tZMKiU

PowerPoint music rhythm game

tohlz — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:59:00 GMT

New updates on PowerPoint Heaven. Added new PowerPoint Game, Music ver. C, by KDC (kdc1130) from Korea's PowerPoint Expert Club. Music ver. C is a PowerPoint music rhythm game. The objective is to test the player's ability to follow a musical beat and stay with the rhythm of Pachelbel's Canon.

Link: PowerPoint Game, Music ver. C
Watch the Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8m1IGaAE8Q

Also, 2 new PowerPoint artworks, Haruhi Greeting and Yuki Greeting, by Jeremiah Lee (Jerry).

PowerPoint Game - Ambient Clicks

tohlz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:25:00 GMT

New PowerPoint Game by Fikree. Ambient Clicks is a short puzzle-clicking game. Your task is to click all the stars and targets to complete this game.

10 new PowerPoint Anime, 1 new PowerPoint Showcase

tohlz — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:45:00 GMT

Major updates on PowerPoint Heaven!
10 new PowerPoint Anime by Han Byul Jang (Zzangdol), which includes impressive Intro Animation Contest submissions(Intro Animation Contest is a celebration contest held by Korea's PowerPoint Expert Club), Password System, Hit the Target game.

Added new PowerPoint Showcase, Intro Animation Contest by Coolguy7 (A winning entry for the Intro Animation Contest)which can be found in Gallery page, under the Showcase category.

Glass Ball Effects

tohlz — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:53:00 GMT

Glass Ball Effects is now available on PowerPoint Heaven. The artwork shows a collection of Glass Balls that were done entirely with PowerPoint 2003's AutoShapes. Also includes examples on where these Glass Balls can be applied in presentations.

What is Custom Animation?

tohlz — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:07:00 GMT

Added new article on PowerPoint Heaven: All about Custom Animation.
Custom Animation is a feature in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. It contains a list of effects that you can apply to objects to have them animate during the slide show. This article talks about what Custom Animation is and shows you a list of all the effects available. If you have no glue on what Custom Animation is, this is the article to read.

A new logo, a new layout

tohlz — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:49:00 GMT

PowerPoint Heaven has been undergoing several changes recently. Mainly to get the site more organized and professional. Now to consolidate some of major updates:
Updated logo - The purpose is to bring clarity and makes the logo looks neater. The changes include:

Lighter cloud
Added border color on the wordings
Smaller wordings
Centered the entire logo
Fixed some alignment issue
Added "The Power to Animate"
Color of shadow has been changed

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Updated frontpage layout - The frontpage on PowerPoint Heaven has been updated. The previous layout was limited and disorganized. The new layout will allow more content to be added. In addition, a category on Featured Tutorials has been included.

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PowerPoint Heaven New Year 2007 Updates

tohlz — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:03:00 GMT

New Year Update!
PowerPoint Game - Pointer's Way 3 is now available for download! It can be found in Fikree's Projects. Pointer's Way is a PowerPoint maze game where you will be using your mouse to move your way through the maze, avoid killer obstacles and unlock objects to reach your goal. Be prepared to scroll your way through 60 levels and encounter challenging boss stages!

You have seen real life characters and webcomic artworks drawn in PowerPoint. How about some Similes? Added PowerPoint Artwork - Smiley Collection which can be found in the Jerry's Projects.

For more information, visit PowerPoint Heaven.

2 new portfolios on PowerPoint Heaven

tohlz — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:07:00 GMT

I have recently added 2 new portfolios on PowerPoint Heaven.
The two new portfolios are:
1) Portfolio PowerPoint 2007
Screenshots are previously shown on the blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/tohlz/archive/2006/10/03/Nice-OfficeArt-effect-with-PowerPoint-2007.aspx
This is a sample featuring two slides, Before and After. 'Before' will show you a dull looking diagram, while 'After' will show you a diagram enhanced using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 OfficeArt effect. OfficeArt in PowerPoint 2007 sure creates cool impact, especially when you combine it with animations.

2) Staff And Students Games 2006
To start this presentation, click on the Staff and Students Games logo. This sample contains a Slide Selector feature created using invisible triggers. Clicking the Forward or Rewind button will display the next set of links. Clicking the Hide button allows the Slide Selector to be hidden.

To download the portfolios, visit PowerPoint Heaven at http://pptheaven.mvps.org.