The Art of PowerPoint-ing : powerpoint animations

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.

Pausing your animations with VBA

tohlz — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:32:00 GMT

Lets say if you are running a slide that has multiple animations on it. Halfway through the presentation, you may want to pause the animations to explain something. A simple way to do this is to press the "b" key which will black out the screen. Then, press "b" key again to resume the presentation. The downside is that you won't be able to see the content on the screen.

To resolve this, you can make use of VBA. To do so, click Tools > Macro > Visual Basic Editor. Copy the code as shown below:

Sub pauseshow()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.State = ppSlideShowPaused
End Sub

Sub runshow()
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.State = ppSlideShowRunning
End Sub

Close the editor once you are done.

Now, create two autoshapes.
Right click on the first one and select Action Settings. Select Run Macro > pauseshow. Click Ok.
Right click on the second one and select Action Settings. Select Run Macro > runshow. Click Ok.
Clicking on Shape 1 will now pause the presentation, while clicking on Shape 2 will resume the presentation.

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!

3 new samples on Experimental Lab

tohlz — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:29:00 GMT

Added 3 more new samples on PowerPoint Experimental Laboratory.

Check out the masking and glowing effect sample which demonstrates masking and glowing on images and text in PowerPoint, the Scrolling text sample which demonstrates scrolling long chunk of text using animations or Control Toolbox, and Scanlines sample on animating lines.

PowerPoint Animation - Animation Vs Newbie

tohlz — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:51:00 GMT

This is a PowerPoint Animation inspired by Animator vs Animation, with a stick figure interacting on PowerPoint 2007 interface. Done by 구름 (castleofgod) for Korea's PowerPoint Expert Club Intro Animation Contest 3. Original work coming soon on PowerPoint Heaven.

Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4B2wq-Hqadw

Invisible Linking

tohlz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:00 GMT

Invisible Linking is a technique which allows you to hyperlink your presentation automatically. The traditional way of hyperlinking to specific slide, custom show, or even url is to add the hyperlink onto a button. Thus, once you click on the button, you will be transferred to the location. But what if you want to have this done automatically? Here's how it can be achieved:

First of all, remove the button as we don't need to have it there.
Instead, add a rectangle that covers the entire slide.
Double click on the rectangle, set fill color to 99%. Line color to no line.
Click Ok.
Right click on the invisible autoshape, select Action Settings.
Select Mouse Over tab, set it Hyperlink to the Slide/URL/Custom Show etc.
To make the mouse over work, Click Add Effect > Entrance > Appear.
Set the Start from "On Click" to "After Previous".
Double click on the added effect.
Select Timing tab, set delay to 0.1 seconds or a time of your preference.
Click Ok.
The last step is to ensure that your mouse pointer is visible at the point of the invisble linking. Depending on how your presentation has been set up, this step is optional if your mouse pointer shows up at the point of invisible linking. There are several ways to achieve this:

Have the slide show running in Kiosk mode (Slide Show > Set Up Show > Browsed at kiosk) or,
Have the mouse pointer visible during slide show view (Right click in slide show, click Pointer Options > Arrow Options > Visible).

There are many other ways that you can make use of the invisble linking. For instance, this technique allows you to hyperlinking automatically from Presentation A to Presentation B's Custom Show either by a single click/ or not at all (example). Or perhpas, forcing an end show automatically (rather than looping the presentation) when running in kiosk mode (example).

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.

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.