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Ultimate Guide to PowerPoint Animations: Tutorials, Templates, Tips & Tricks

Animations in powerpoint.

We have put together a massive collection of resources for PowerPoint Animations. This includes free & premium tips, tricks, tutorials and templates that you can access online to polish your slides and engage your audience.

We will cover both Custom Animations and Transitions feature in PowerPoint. This includes the new Morph Transition introduced in PowerPoint for Office 365

About PowerPoint Custom Animations

Custom Animation is a useful feature in PowerPoint. You can use it to add interaction to your slides and make the presentation more engaging for your audience. Almost any element in your slide - text, photos, graphs, shapes, audio and video can be animated.  

You can add PowerPoint animations to any of these elements in just three steps: (1) Select the object to animate (2) apply an animation, and (3) customize the effects.

Let us see how to apply animation to different parts of a presentation.

Custom animation, when used correctly can enhance the effectiveness of your message in your business presentations. #PowerPoint #Tips

4 Types of Animations 

PowerPoint offers 4 types of Animations:

• Entrance animation: Animations to make elements enter the slide.
• Exit Animation : Animations to make elements exit the slide.
• Emphasis Animation :   Animations to highlight elements on the slide and direct attention
• Motion Path Animation : Animations that make elements on the slide move from one place to another along predefined paths. 

You can add more than one animation to the same object. With this feature, it is possible to create a variety of custom animations to suit your specific requirement.

Animation can help make a PowerPoint presentation more dynamic, and the information more memorable. The most common types of animation effects include entrances and exits. 

Learn how to set up basic animations with these tutorials on Microsoft website. 

[Basic] Add Animations in PowerPoint 2016

In this easy to follow video, learn how to add animation in PowerPoint 2016. This video shows how to get started and is a primer.

Customizing Animation Effects

Once you add an animation to an object, PowerPoint offers further options to customize the animation. Each Animation effect can be controlled using the following additional settings:

Option 1: Preview Animations

Animations in PowerPoint can be normally viewed only in Slideshow mode. So if you want to preview the animations you added on a slide, PowerPoint allows you to view them using the Preview option.

Option 2: Effect Options

Some effects in PowerPoint like Fly In have additional options available. For example, Fly In animation can be set to Flyin from Left, Right, Top or Bottom of the slide. 

In addition to this, text animation can be further set to: As One Object, All at One or By Paragraph.

Option 3: Advanced Animation Effects

These options help you fine tune your animation further. You can: 

Add Animation: Add more animation effects to an object

Animation Pane: View Animation Pane to view list of animations applied on the slide and modify them.

Trigger:   Start animation on a trigger like on click of a button/text etc. to make your slide more interactive.

Animation Painter: This lesser known tool can be used to copy all the animations applied to one object and "paint" or replicate the animation to another object. This is a very useful tool to reduce the time taken to create animation effects.

Option 4: Animation Timing

The Animation timing tools allow you to control when and how the animations play. 

Start: Animations can start On Click, With Previous and After Previous

Duration: Controls how long the animation should play for. 

Delay: This feature controls how long after the previous animation the current animation should be played.

Reorder Animation: When the Animation Pane is open, you can reorder the animations and move them up or down with these tools.

5. About Animation Pane

The Animation Pane provides the list of all the animations applied to a slide in once place. You can do the following actions in the Pane:

• Change the Start option
• Edit the Effect options
• Change the Timings
• Remove the animations 
• Preview the animations

You can find out more about Animation Panes in this post from Tutsplus .

How To Preview Animations

When you put together a slide with multiple animation effects, you need to preview the animation periodically. Going to Slideshow mode every time takes a lot of time. In this video, you will find some quick ways to preview animations. All the options shared in this video allow you to preview the animation in the slide itself.

Text Animation Effects

PowerPoint animations are useful for text or bullet lists. You can make each point in your list appear one at a time as you present it.  In this section we'll explore some basic and advanced ways to present text.

Animations to Bullet Lists

When you present a list of bullet points, you can add animations to make each point exit the slide, after you finish covering it.  This post from Techrepublic shows how to add an exit strategy to bullet points in a slide. 

[Easy] Useful Animation Tricks for Bullet Points

Learn 3 useful PowerPoint Text animation tricks in the video below. The tricks you will learn are: 1. How to animate a bullet point list one by one 2. How to dim a bullet point after it is animated 3. How to make a bullet point disappear after the animation PLUS How to animate bullet points in reverse order These PowerPoint animation effects should help you make your next presentation more effective.

[Advanced] Animation Effect for Text 

Learn how to create a realistic looking effect of a hand writing text in PowerPoint. The animation looks like it was created by whiteboard animation software like Videoscribe. This popular video by Presentation Process has over 1200 Likes and 134K views. 

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Most people use animation only to make the bullet points appear one after another. Some advanced users make the points dim after animation. There is so much more to animation than this basic feature. In the following sections we'll see some advanced and creative uses of Animations in PowerPoint.

Picture Animation Effects

In this section you will find some creative ways to animate slides with photos. This includes photos in jpeg or png format as well as vector images in EMF, WMF or SVG format.

You can find video tutorials on how to animate Pictures and Shapes on Microsoft website.

[Advanced]  PowerPoint Zoom Animation

Sometimes when you present large pictures in your business presentation, you may be required to zoom in to your pictures to show the details. In such a situation this PowerPoint zoom effect comes in handy. You can use the animation effect to zoom into a certain step in a large multi step process, or you can use this custom animation trick to zoom in on an individual in a large group photo or zoom in on a country in a large world map etc.

[Advanced]  PowerPoint Animation to Create Videoscribe Effect

Learn to create an interesting Videoscribe effect with PowerPoint Animation within a few seconds. The effect you will learn is to have a base image and to animate it so that it looks like someone is completing a drawing on the slide. This is a great way to add engagement to your training slides.

If you would like to follow this tutorial, you can download a similar image here .

This kind of animation can be done with any wmf or emf file and can be used to explain business concepts like planning and execution or explanation of a step by step process.

Shapes & SmartArt  Animations

Autoshapes in PowerPoint can be used to create visuals for your presentation. In this section, we will see how to animate Autoshapes as well as SmartArt.

[Easy]  PowerPoint Timeline Animation

Learn to create a beautiful Animated PowerPoint Timeline Infographic with this step by step tutorial. Grab your audience attention with this easy to design slide with custom animation effect.

[Easy]  PowerPoint Animation for SmartArt Objects

When you add animation to a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint , initially the entire graphic gets animated. But PowerPoint does provide some control over animating SmartArt shapes. To learn how to animate a SmartArt graphic with more control read this post on Indezine .

You can also see the process of animating a SmartArt diagram with the tutorial video below. The diagram we will be using is a core diagram with a circle relationship from the inbuilt PowerPoint SmartArt

The type of diagrams you can create and the animations you can apply, are only limited by your imagination. 

Watch the video above to know more

Creative Slide Design & Animation

Design 25 beautiful Slides to impress your boss & clients – using PowerPoint Tips & Tricks. Save time and improve your workflow efficiency. Suited for Beginner and Intermediate PowerPoint users.

Chart  Animations

Most business presentations have charts included in them. Many times PowerPoint charts can be overwhelming for the audience.  The reason for their overwhelm is - too much information hitting them too soon. If you learn to sequence the way you present your numbers, you make it easy for your business audience to understand your PowerPoint presentation.

This video in Microsoft support site  shows how to add animations to Charts and SmartArt. 

[Easy]  Guide to PowerPoint Chart Animation

Learn to animate your charts like a pro. In this short video tutorial, you will find how to apply custom animation to your PowerPoint charts and present information at your own pace.

[Easy]  Animate Excel in PowerPoint

Many presenters have the habit of creating charts in Excel first and then again in PowerPoint. This video shows how you can simply copy an existing chart from Excel and animate it to present your information clearly and in sequence.

Adding Interactivity 

PowerPoint animations has a trigger feature which can be used to add interactivity to your slides. These are specially useful for training and e-learning presentations.

Hyperlinks and Triggers

Triggers are like an internal hyperlink on your slide. The person viewing the presentation can control what happens next. This is useful for building multiple choice quizzes. This post from Brightcarbon provides an overview of setting up triggers & hyperlinks.

Creating Simple & Interactive PowerPoint Animated Slide

Engage your audience in training and information presentation with this beautiful slide. The slide has 4 images. On clicking on an image, the description or details relevant to that image appears next to it.

Creating Interactive Buzzers with Sound in PowerPoint

Make your training more engaging and interesting with this creative PowerPoint idea. Follow this step by step tutorial video to create an interactive PowerPoint buzzer with sound effects. You can use this buzzer to run a quiz in your classroom.

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Video Animation Effects

You can insert and play videos in PowerPoint. You can insert these videos from YouTube, from your PC or Storage location like OneDrive.   This tutorial in Microsoft website covers how to insert video and audio in PowerPoint.

[Easy]  Insert YouTube Video in PowerPoint

Learn how to embed an online video into your next presentation. It is a fairly straightforward option in PowerPoint 2016.

[Advanced]  PowerPoint Movie Magic with Videos, Text and Animations 

Create PowerPoint Movie Magic by using the combo of videos, text and animations. Use this technique to create slides that engage your audience. The presentation shows a car moving along a road. The windshield wiper moves across the screen. Text appears and fades away in sync with the movement of the windshield wiper. We will use the Video Bookmark option, Text Entrance and Exit Animations, and Trigger animations options to create this effect.

Using Transitions Effectively

Slide transitions are the visual movements where one slide changes into another during a presentation. They add to the professional appearance of the slideshow in general and can draw attention to specific important slides. To know how to apply and remove transitions,  read this post on Lifewire.

[Easy]  5 Tricks to Use Transition Effects in PowerPoint

Learn how to use PowerPoint slide transition effects in an interesting way to make your presentations creative.

[Advanced]  The Power of Dynamic Pan Transition Effect

Sometimes the information you want to present spreads beyond one slide. For example, an excel spreadsheet you stuck on the slide has too many columns to fit into one slide.  A map you placed on the slide is too big to be shown on one slide. If you force yourself to show the image in one page (by shrinking the size of the map), the details get too small to be clearly visible to the audience in the last row.

Learn an easy trick to overcome this situation with the video below:

Using Morph Transition 

PowerPoint Morph is a revolutionary feature available for Office 365 users. It eliminates the need for complex animation. Technically speaking, PowerPoint Morph is a transition, but in reality it can be widely used a substitute/enhancement for complex animation. Read this post from Efficiency365 for a quick overview  of this feature.

[Easy]  Animated Roadmap with Morph Transition

Learn to create an interesting animated roadmap that looks like a video. We use the PowerPoint 2016 ( Office 365 ) Morph Transition feature to create this effect. You can use this type of roadmap or timeline in almost any kind of presentation. Engage your audience by explaining and revealing the steps one by one. Link for Roadmap Image

[Advanced]  How Morph Transition Can Replace   Animation

In this video you will find how to use PowerPoint Morph Transition to replace Custom Animations. See how this can be done with this example of a slide with multiple pictures with text. You'll find how to mimic PowerPoint animation with Morph Transition and create the slides very quickly.

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Animated PowerPoint Templates

Animations take time to visualize and create. You can save time by using ready to use PowerPoint Templates. In this section you will find resources and links for Animated PowerPoint Templates.

PowerPoint comes with some animated 3D templates. This includes sparkling picture frames, lively photograph albums, 3-D rotating photos, and elegant transitions between images. 

This page on Microsoft support site provides the link and details.

You can find more free animated PowerPoint Templates including for physics presentations at Presentation Magazine website. 

While these free templates are a good resource for student and non-critical presentations, business & training presentations require professional and creative animation effects. 

Ready-to-Use Professional Animation Templates

The 750+ Advanced PowerPoint Animation Templates Pack is specifically created for use in training and business presentations. It includes advanced animations for text, lists, pictures, concepts and metaphors. You can preview some of the templates from this pack below:

Animations for Bullet Points, Agenda, Terms & Definitions

Animations for Timelines, Roadmaps & Process Flows

Source:  750+ Advanced PowerPoint Animation Templates Pack

Animations for Pictures and Lists

Animations for Concepts, Metaphors, Business Ideas

And More Professionally Animated Templates to Engage Your Audience...

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These ready to use animated slides are very classy and ready to use , these are very thoughtfully done .

When I have to put a point across to the team or to a larger audience , these slides greatly benefit me to make my slides sharper and to the point … one just has to visualize as to what is that you need to share to the audience and how , if you can visualize , you are bound to find that slide in this pack , if not similar , better . Secondly when you scan through the slides , the way they are made you also get ideas as to what to share to the team and audience .

Tips for Professional Animation

Here are some quick tips when using PowerPoint Animations. These will help you save time and create your animations more professionally. 

[Tip]  How to remove Custom Animations from All Slides in 1 click

When you don't want any custom animation at all in your presentation - how do you go about it? Usually you will have to go to every single slide and remove the animations. However if you wish to have on-click control on whether animations are present or now - then use this trick and get complete control over your slides!

5 Irritating Ways to Use Custom Animation

Some presenters have the habit of applying animations the wrong way. Such animations have no purpose and end up irritating the audience. Watch the video below to learn the common mistake presenters make when using custom animations feature. 

Time-Saving Tip: Using Animation Painter

Animations take a lot of time to create. Learn how to easily reuse animations applied to an object using Animation Painter tool. This video is part of the bonus tutorial videos provided with purchase of Advanced Animations Pack. 

Good PowerPoint animation makes your audience focus on the message not the animation.

Turn Presentations Into Videos

When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.  Learn the step by step process in this Microsoft support article .

[Easy]  Convert PowerPoint to Video

In this tutorial, you will find how to use save your PowerPoint file as a video. When you save the file as a video, all the animations and transitions you have used will get saved along with the file.  You would use this option of saving your presentation as videos to: - Showcase photos in a video format online/ offline - Summary or review of keys points in a presentation or training - Create a booth or kiosk presentation etc.

Free Ultimate Guide to PowerPoint Animations for tutorials, tips & more. #PowerPoint #Presentations

More Ideas for PowerPoint Animation

How to create sparkling text effect for pictures.

Learn to create a Sparkling Text Effect in PowerPoint with this step by step tutorial. You can use this effect for title animation or to highlight an important quote in a presentation.

How to create Clock Needle Animation effect

Learn how to Create Clock Needle Animation Effect in PowerPoint 2013 This is a useful animation effect to show a list, agenda items, steps in a process and more. 

Create Motion Graphics with Animation

Learn how to convert Static Pictures into Animated images in PowerPoint. Tell your story with creatively animated PowerPoint slides. The effect looks like motion graphics created in an advanced software. However, this effect uses simple custom animation effects that you can follow in any version of PowerPoint. 

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PowerPoint Animations: Animate Text, Objects, and Slides in Your Presentations

Working with graphic assets can bring a degree of expectancy when delivering a presentation, such as in the case of PowerPoint animations. They can help add emphasis to slide content and reveal parts of the slide gradually to help presenters discuss topics sequentially. 

As a presenting software, PowerPoint provides all kinds of animations for emphasis, entrance, exit, and to create a set motion. Join us today to learn all about animations in PowerPoint and unleash your creative potential.

Table of Contents

How PowerPoint Animations Can Benefit Presentation Design

Understanding powerpoint animation basics, types of animations in powerpoint, how to animate text on powerpoint, animating objects for visual impact, crafting seamless slide transitions in powerpoint, mastering advanced animation techniques in powerpoint, dos and don’ts of powerpoint animations, real-world use cases of animated presentation slides, recommended animated powerpoint templates, enhanced engagement and understanding through animations.

Dynamic presentations can have many benefits. The importance of such animations is often only realized by people familiar with PowerPoint. As we’ve seen in our guide on visual communication , graphical elements can make concepts more understandable. In the case of animations, we can use the transitions between slides or elements to split concepts and make them clearer.

Audience engagement is another factor, as eye-catching slides often include surprise elements hidden behind animations. These elements attract the audience’s interest and increase retention rate. In this case, animations serve as powerful presentation aids for the speaker.

Capturing Audience Attention

PowerPoint animations are more likely to capture the audience’s attention than static slides. The moving objects on-screen are the type of visuals people are likely to find attention-grabbing instead of trying to read through static slides or looking at static images. On this behalf, storytelling techniques boost their efficacy in connecting with the audience by implementing animations and transitions rather than sticking to static slides. 

Emphasizing Relationships Between Elements

Whenever we work with contrasting values, like pros and cons slides , animations help the presenter highlight areas of interest or disclose the opposite values section by section. This, in turn, structures the speech for real-time interaction with the graphical assets rather than having the audience read the slide and lose focus on the speech. 

Interactive Presentations

As mentioned before, presenters can craft compelling stories through the careful use of animations in PPT. What is often overlooked is the link between interactive presentations and animations. For instance, a speaker can deliver different outcomes of the presentation by selecting one path whose outcome is revealed through an animation. This “wow” factor induces surprise and creatively presents case scenarios.

Another option is when introducing your team in presentations. Rather than using static slides, incorporating animations gives more rhythm to the presentation and invites the public to interact with the speaker.

Getting Started with Animation in PowerPoint

To start with animations in PowerPoint, select an object you wish to animate and go to the Animations tab to choose an animation to add to the slide element. When adding animations to multiple objects in a slide, you should consider the sequence you wish to use to animate objects.

Accessing Animation Features

When accessing animation features, you will come across various animation types. By expanding the Animations menu, you can select animations for entrance, exit, emphasis, and motion paths to create a path for your animated sequence. You can also click to instantly preview an animation for the selected object or switch to slideshow mode to see how the animation will appear.

Adding Animations to Text and Objects

Once an animation is added to a text or object, a number is assigned. This number shows the sequence in which the object will be presented. For example, the object will be the first to be animated on screen, followed by two, three, and so on.

You can adjust the sequence of animations, triggers, and other settings from the Animation Pane in PowerPoint.

Timing and Sequence in Animations

The Timing menu in the Animations pane provides options to set the duration of the animation, the time to delay the animation on the screen (if necessary), and to assess if the animation starts on click, with the previous or after the last animation. How you select these animations will help you adjust the time and sequence of the animations. For example, you can use ‘ with previous’ option to show two animated objects simultaneously.

Entrance, Exit, and Emphasis Animations

Some of the most commonly used animation types fall under three categories: entrance, exit, and emphasis animations.

Entrance Animations

The Entrance Animations are meant to start or introduce objects. You can explore all entrance-related animations by going to Animations -> Animation (menu) -> More Entrance Effects . This will reveal all entrance animations you can click to preview for a selected object. These often consist of basic animations with effects like appear, fly-in, float-in, strips, wheel, circle, box, dissolve-in, split, wedge, wipe, plus, diamond, checkerboard, blinds, etc. The animations can be divided into three categories: basic, subtle, and moderate. These categories help identify the type of effects in each category according to how prominent they might be on screen.

Exit Animations

The Exit Animations are meant to help exit a slide or animated sequence to close a topic or subtopic, or to conclude the on-screen animations for a slide. These animations are similar to the Entrance Animations with the same effects. You can use these animation types for an exit sequence using effects like blinds, circles, checkerboard, box, plus, split, wedge, wipe, diamond, dissolve out, contract, swivel, fade, zoom, basic zoom, collapse, float up, etc.

Like the Entrance Animations, you can go to  Animations -> Animation (menu) -> More Exit Effects to preview the animations and to see the three categories for basic, subtle, or moderate animations.

Emphasis Animations

Other than basic, subtle, and moderate, the Emphasis Animations come with an additional category, ‘exciting.’ Emphasis animations in PowerPoint provide visual aids for emphasizing content within slides. The effects for these animation types in PowerPoint are also quite different from the entrance and exit-themed effects. Effects like fill color, grow/shrink, transparency, line color, teeter, color pulse, object color, desaturate, darken, lighten, blink, wave, and others can help emphasize an object within a slide to make it pop out before the audience.

Exploring Motion Path Animations

If primary effects aren’t what you want, it’s time to switch to Motion Paths . These are animated effects in PowerPoint that showcase objects across a specific path. In other words, these are elaborate animations that drag objects on the screen based on a particular shape or path, such as a 4,5, 6, or 8-point star, crescent moon, circle, diamond, football, heart, octagon, pentagon, square, trapezoid, teardrop, right triangle, arc (down, right, left, up), curvy right, bounce right, etc.

Motion Paths are divided into four categories. The basic effects consist of shapes, whereas, Line Curves provide lines and curves to animated objects. Similarly, the special category contains more elaborate effects such as inverted square, loop de loop, peanut, bean, curved square, etc.

Choosing Appropriate Animation Styles

When choosing animation styles, picking a style that best resonates with your presentation slides is important. The animations’ names and categories can help you identify what might work for you. Furthermore, after adding an animation, you can go to Effect Options to view the various directions and options used to refine the animation to build your sequence further. Depending on the animation type, you can pick variations of the animation, directions, colors, transparency, points to edit or lock, or other options for selected effects. The image below shows the variations for the Wheel animation in PowerPoint via Effect Options .

Similarly, if you select Transparency from Emphasis Effects, you can choose how transparent the object will appear on the screen. Likewise, many color-themed effects enable picking a custom color to animate an object.

Since Motion Paths are unique, you will get options to edit points, lock paths, reverse the direction of the default animated sequence, etc.

Now that you know how to animate in PowerPoint, it’s time to explore making written content more interesting using animations.

Start by opening a blank PPT file and adding a placeholder text. The idea is to learn how text interacts with animation effects without working with complex graphic layouts.

Select the text and switch to the Animations tab. In there, pick an animation effect of your preference. You will get a preview of the effect applied – which will show the number of the animation order once completed.

Animations for text, like any other animation, can be controlled in terms of behavior by accessing the panel at the right-most section of the Ribbon.

Additionally, we can expand the animations panel to select from the different effects offered by PowerPoint.

Animating Text Elements on PPT Templates

Animating text elements to highlight key aspects of your slides can be a great way to create engaging presentations. The Animated 3D 4 Steps & Core PowerPoint Template shown below are among the Animated PowerPoint templates at SlideModel that animate objects and text elements for emphasis while retaining a clear layout.

As visible from the animated sequence from the Animation Pane in the image below, the slide deck uses animated text boxes with a mix of other slide elements to create a sequence where a four-step diagram is highlighted with supported text to help elaborate each part of the diagram in an animated sequence. We can add, remove, or modify the included effects via the Animation Pane.

Balancing Text Animations for Impact

By balancing text animations, you can have maximum impact when highlighting content for your slides. The animations can be triggered to start simultaneously to reveal all the text after a sequence of objects, before objects appear, or one by one to reveal the diagram contents gradually.

Animating Images, Shapes, and Charts

When animating shapes and images, you can use a variety of animation types for entrance, exit, and emphasis, and to make the content pop out. However, charts require subtle animations, and it’s best to use basic effects to reveal charts, such as Appear and Disappear .

The Animated Network Diagram PowerPoint Template is an example of how to animate shapes.

The template’s title slide reveals shapes and icons in the form of a diagram in an animated sequence.

You can also include images in such a template to customize the given diagram and animate it to reveal the image simultaneously or after a set of objects has already been revealed.

If you are including a chart in your slide that is to be animated, make sure the animation corresponds to other elements that might also be animated. For example, you can trigger the chart to be revealed after the slide title with a simple Appear effect. In such a case, the chart can be displayed altogether or gradually, in animated form.

Applying Object Animations Strategically

When placing slide objects, you must apply the animations strategically to avoid revealing information out of sequence. Furthermore, it is also worth considering how your effects appear. For example, in the image of the diagram below, would you prefer the diagram to appear floating upward or downward? Such considerations and other vital elements, such as your branding needs, are important to ponder when setting your animated sequence.

Enhancing Presentation Flow with Transitions

While Animations for PowerPoint are one way of making your slides engaging, PowerPoint Transitions is another. You can access them via the Transitions tab in PowerPoint and apply transitions between slides.

While many legacy transitions provide basic effects when switching between slides, some of the more recent additions to this menu, such as Morph Transition , enable the creation of elaborate animations by using Transitions to animate your slides. The below example shows a slide with the Morph transition, giving an animated effect to the diagram.

Maintaining Coherence Between Slides

When applying Transitions, it is essential to maintain coherence between slides by ensuring they don’t overlap with any added Animations. To do this, you should preview your slide deck to see how it might appear once all the animated effects have been included in your slides. Like PowerPoint Animations, you can also use Effect Options for Transitions to set a sequence or direction that best suits your needs.

Layering for Complex Animation Effects

Using layers of multiple objects and slides can easily create advanced animation effects. This can be done using not only PowerPoint animations but also transitions. The Animated Pendulum Swing PowerPoint Templates from the SlideModel archive of animated templates use Transitions like Morph to create animated sequences. The below example shows a swinging pendulum created using Morph.

Combining and Triggering Animations

Depending on the number of elements within a slide and the animations used, you can use triggers to customize and set sequences for slide elements to animate. The example below shows the selected pendulum’s various linking options for the on-click trigger. By placing your slide objects to be connected and triggered with different parts of your slide, you can create and customize animated sequences that can be pretty attention-grabbing. 

PowerPoint Animation Painter

If you thought you had to start from scratch to animate each slide of your presentation, you are sorely mistaken. Much like the Format Painter option in PowerPoint, we can find Animation Painter , which is accessible via the Ribbon under the Advanced Animation control options.

This tool helps us duplicate animations between elements of the same slide or copy animation effects from one slide to another. As a format copying tool, it requires at least one animation effect to be placed otherwise the option is grayed out.

Creative Experimentation

Experimenting with Animations in PowerPoint can be pretty helpful to avoid making monotonous presentations. Experimentation does not necessarily require making slides from scratch, but you can also use ready-made templates such as the 3D animation PowerPoint Templates at SlideModel. Alternatively, some slide deck templates offer a considerable range of animation effects intended for maximum audience engagement, which users can quickly customize by editing placeholder areas for text, images, and logos.

Below is a list of do’s and don’ts of PowerPoint Animations for making presentations that best use animated effects.

Maintain Animation Moderation

It is essential to maintain moderation when using animations, as the use of too many animations on a single slide or presentation can make the content confusing.

Use of Appropriate Animations

Try to use appropriate animations for slide objects. The animation should suitably show if the object is to enter, exit, be emphasized, or be highlighted using a motion path.

Avoid Animation Overload

Avoid flashy animated sequences unless your presentation is meant for an audience that might find engaging, such as children in a classroom session.

Subtle can be Just as Engaging

Sometimes, subtle animations can be just as engaging as an animation with an elaborate effect. This can, in fact, be a better option than using animations that might be visually overpowering or difficult to follow due to elaborate effects.

Ensure Visual Consistency

As discussed earlier, it is vital to maintain consistency in using animated effects. Be it Animations or Transitions, using flashy effects or too many diverse effects can hurt how the audience perceives your content, as it might become confusing, visually overpowering, or unprofessional. In such a case, the audience might quickly lose interest in the presentation, leading to Death by PowerPoint.

Less is More

The design language of visual designs over the past decade or more has been intended to use fewer effects and graphical elements with ample space to make the interface look clean. Be it Modern UI or Material design apps, this design language has been evident across desktop and mobile UIs. Using the same concept, you can design your slides with fewer animations and graphical elements to make your content more visually appealing.

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Courtney Allen, a professional PowerPoint designer who came out of a BFA in graphic design from Boise State University, had all but PowerPoint as a part of her portfolio. She started her freelancing career via Upwork, making over a thousand PowerPoints for clients, bringing in as many as $2 million. She suggests using simple designs and animations to make the most out of PowerPoint presentations. 

Guy Kawasaki Pitch Deck

Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee, whose famous 10-slide pitch deck has inspired a variety of PowerPoint templates. This rule was designed for startups and business presentations, focusing on pitching a concept to investors. While this isn’t directly related to using animations in presentations, it is an example of making the best use of minimalist content in a few slides. You can learn more about the Guy Kawasaki pitch deck from our article about the 10/20/30 rule for PowerPoint presentations .

How not to use an Animated PowerPoint Presentation in Court! 

Presentations with animations aren’t always a great idea. In 2014, a court in the United States criticized a PowerPoint presentation by the prosecutor, which led to the court throwing the case out. The presentation was made with sound effects and animations, with flashy elements like the bullseye. Some of the significant mistakes made by the prosecutor included ‘visual advocacy,’ where the defendant was marked with the word ‘guilt’ in the slide deck. Not to mention, the animated presentation seemed to be aimed at influencing the court using visual aids. Something that did not sit well with the court.

Use of PowerPoint by the US Military

The US Military has often been accused of Death by PowerPoint for preparing what some call the worst PowerPoint slides ever created. The issue became so profound that in 2011, it was revealed that an executive communications manager at Microsoft, Dave Karle, was tasked with ensuring that the US military could finally start using the software properly. After discussions with top military officials, an updated military presentation method was created, consisting of a number of presentation templates, tips, and graphics and more than 6000 map symbols. 

In this section, you can check some ready-made templates that can be easily customized for your presentation’s purposes. All these templates feature professionally made animation effects with native PowerPoint tools.

1. Multi-Purpose Animated PowerPoint Slide Deck

Those looking for how to animate in PowerPoint now have a ready-made solution to create mind-blowing presentations in a couple of minutes. This slide deck contains 26 slides in a broad selection of topics. We can present facts, introduce our team, our company, display charts with animated effects, and so much more. Check it out now!

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2. Animated 8-Step Social Media Carousel PowerPoint Template

Bring dynamism to your social media posts by implementing this vivid social media carousel template. With eye-catching animated effects, this template emulates the typical carousel posts we can find on platforms like LinkedIn or Instagram.

3. Problem Solving Animated PowerPoint Template

Bring professional graphics to troubleshooting sessions with your team. This template, filled with PowerPoint animations, offers a user-friendly approach to conventional problem-solving situations in which the team has to observe the Issue Matrix, suggest possible solutions, and prepare an implementation plan and its corresponding process flow diagram. Thanks to its high-quality animation effects, the speaker can introduce the facts individually, without diverting attention from the speech.

4. Animated Company Profile Presentation Template for PowerPoint

We’ve seen this template as one of the examples of animations for PowerPoint. It is a 21-slide solution offering all the tools required for a corporate-styled company profile presentation, specifically tailored for service businesses.

5. Corporate Company Profile Animated PowerPoint Template

An alternative option for company profile presentations, featuring a minimalistic graphic layout with a broad variety of animation effects. Check these 12 slides and customize them with information relevant to your organization – we bring complex animation effects in a ready-made format. Colors and placeholder images can also be replaced.

6. Animated Roadmap PowerPoint Template

Bring more action to any planning meeting using this animated PowerPoint roadmap template. After a clear path overview, each milestone slide contains animation effects to introduce relevant information to the topic. It is a new take on traditional roadmap presentations that allows the speaker to pace themselves regarding how to disclose the information about the strategy to embark on.

7. Animated Pros & Cons Comparison Slide Template for PowerPoint

We mentioned the advantages of using PowerPoint animations to discuss contrasting values of a situation. Well, this animated Pros & Cons slide is the ideal tool for that purpose, offering a generalist view, then two accompanying slides for Pros & Cons, respectively, with animated effects to introduce additional information per point.

Using animations to make visually appealing and engaging presentations requires ensuring that your content corresponds with your added animated effects. It is always best to use animations in moderation and to keep your slides minimalist while unleashing your creativity as a presenter. Using ready-made PowerPoint templates can also help give you a good starting point to begin experimenting with animations and effects. This can also be useful for people new to PowerPoint Animations to explore what is doable with an animated slide deck, using animated sequences tailored for customization. 

Whether you’re using an animated template or making one from scratch, a preview in slideshow mode can save you a lot of trouble with potential issues tied to animated effects. Last but not least, using animations in PowerPoint isn’t always necessary, and you can even go for a simple slide deck with a handful of slides. What matters is that you should be aware of the information being presented, and the visual aids should be just to aid your slides and not meant to be the whole package on their own.

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10 Best PowerPoint Animation Examples

Animations in PowerPoint can bring life and interactivity to otherwise static slides. It improves presentations and makes them more engaging for the audience. With these, you can emphasize key points to make complex information more digestible through animation. The best PowerPoint animations, when used thoughtfully, can transform your presentation into a memorable experience.

Microsoft PowerPoint offers a variety of animation tools that allow users to add movement, transitions, and special effects to elements on their slides, such as icons, text, images, shapes, and charts. Having said that, sometimes it is tiresome to satisfy your professional needs using just in-built features. To ease your job, we have listed our best PowerPoint animation examples which you can use to create smooth flowing slides.

But before diving into that, let’s understand what an animated presentation truly stands for and its importance in professional settings.

What is Animation in PowerPoint?

Animations are visual effects applied to the components or individual graphics, icons, images, etc. These effects can include changes in color or size, entrance and exit effects, slide transitions, or any other movement to the slide or the elements in slides. 

Using PowerPoint animation ideas plays a significant role in professional meetings. They can not only better the quality of your presentation but also set your own presentation style.

READ MORE: How do you add animation to PowerPoint?

Types of Animation in PowerPoint

PowerPoint animations can be divided into four main types:

1. Entrance Animations: Control the manner in which elements enter the slide.

2. Emphasis Animations: Highlight elements or objects to show their significance.

3. Exit Animations: Control how the elements leave the slide.

4. Motion Paths: Makes elements move in a particular direction, shape, or pattern.

Here’s a list of 10 best examples of PowerPoint animation to upskill your ability to curate the perfect presentation ever:

1. Animated Team Introduction PowerPoint Slide

Animations used: Motion path effect

In this team introduction example, the team members are hidden behind the team name at first. As you click through, they pop out one by one, like a surprise. It’s a cool way to introduce the team and make the presentation more interesting.

2. Animated Highlights PowerPoint Example

Animations used: Spin emphasis effect, Fade in entrance effect

This animation example is a real eye-catcher! The Ferris wheel, a symbol of progress, spins around, making you want to keep watching. The words fade in smoothly, giving it a clean, professional feel. You can use this for anything from annual reports to marketing stuff. It’s perfect if you want to make a big impression.

3. Animated Professional Agenda

Animations used: Zoom entrance effect, Fly in entrance effect, Fly out exit effect

Each agenda item’s green shape zooms in upon selection, drawing the viewer’s attention. Additionally, the item’s description dynamically drops down with a fly-in and fly-out animation, providing a smooth and interactive user experience.

4. Animated Arrow 6 Steps Example

Animations used: Float in entrance effect

The hexagonal pillars, which show each step of the process, float in from the bottom of the slide. It’s like a cool visual introduction that makes the steps feel more connected and interesting.

5. Animated PowerPoint Quiz Example

Animations used: Change color emphasis effect

This interactive example uses animation to encourage participation by making the experience more immersive and providing immediate feedback. When clicked, the answer options change color, providing instant visual cues to indicate whether the selection is correct or incorrect. This dynamic animation feature creates a more engaging and interactive learning experience, encouraging audience participation and reinforcing understanding.

6. Animated Key Takeaways Example

Animations used: Zoom-in entrance effect, Fly in entrance effect

The presentation begins with a captivating zoom-in effect on a lock, symbolizing the unveiling of important information. As each point is introduced, a smooth fly-in animation draws attention to the content, ensuring that the audience remains focused and engaged. 

7. Animated Next Steps 07 Example

Animations used: Wipe entrance effect, Zoom entrance effect

The presentation begins with the staircases being revealed one by one, from bottom to the top using a smooth wipe animation. With each staircase, the textboxes associated with the step appear with a zoom effect.

8. Animated Timeline Curved Example

Animations used: Wipe entrance effect, Peek in entrance effect, Split entrance effect

This timeline example uses a cool animation where the timeline wipes in. The text boxes peek in one by one, and the lines between them split open, which makes it feel like you’re watching events unfold.

9. Animated Bulb Strategy Example

Animations used: Fly in entrance effect, Zoom entrance effect, Wipe entrance effect

The puzzle pieces fly in from the sides, like they’re coming together to form a solution. The icons and their circles get bigger, highlighting each important part. These animations make it feel like the ideas are really coming together, creating a super engaging presentation.

10. Animated 3D Spheres Example

Animations used: Fly in entrance effect

All elements, including the 3D blocks, numbers, text placeholders, and icons, dynamically fly in from the sides of the slide, creating a captivating and immersive experience. Everything related to a single point pops up at the same time when you click, making the presentation feel more connected and look better.

These examples of animation in PowerPoint have been put together to help you make your presentation unique in every sense of the word. You can explore more such cool PowerPoint animation ideas from our vast library of animated templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides .

What is animation in PowerPoint?

Animation in PowerPoint refers to the process of adding movement to text, images, or shapes within a slide. This can involve creating transitions between slides or applying effects like fading, zooming, or rotating to individual elements.

What are the four types of animation in PowerPoint?

Entrance animations make objects appear, exit animations make them disappear, emphasis animations highlight them, and path animations move them along a path.

How do you make good animation ideas in PowerPoint?

The best way to make good use of PowerPoint animations is to not overdo it. The above animation examples in PowerPoint are sure to spark some creativity.

Do these PowerPoint presentation animation ideas require any additional software or plugins?

In most cases, they work directly within PowerPoint and Google Slides, eliminating the need for extra software or plugins.

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Designing a PowerPoint presentation is not an easy job. It requires a lot of work and time. When crafting presentations, most people completely ignore one of the key elements of a creative slideshow: animation. Adding creative animations and effects not only makes your presentation slides interactive, but it’s also useful when emphasizing key points and data.

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5 Tips for Creating Animations & Transitions in PowerPoint

Adding animation to your PowerPoint slideshows can greatly enhance the experience you offer through your presentation. If you’re new to PowerPoint, follow these tips to get started with animations.

1. Transition vs Object Animations

One of the first things you need to be aware of when using PowerPoint animations is the difference between transition animations and object animations.

On PowerPoint, you can animate each object you add to your slides. While this can be useful when presenting key points in a presentation, you should try to keep object animations to a minimum.

You can also add transition animations to your slides. These animations help create smoother transitions between slides.

2. Time It Perfectly

Each and every animation you add in PowerPoint can be customized to your preference by setting times for the duration of the animation as well as adding delays.

It’s up to you to experiment with different settings to find the right time and delays for your animations. Try to keep animations short and sweet.

3. Stack Multiple Animations

Another useful feature of PowerPoint animations is the ability to stack multiple animations for objects. For example, you can add both entrance and exit animations for each object on your slide by stacking different animation effects.

Stacking animations can drastically increase the duration of your slideshow presentations so use this feature only when necessary.

4. Automatic vs Controlled Animations

Controlled animations offer a great advantage when you’re delivering specific types of presentations like product reveals and feature showcases. For example, if you want to talk about key points in your speech, you can use controlled animations to reveal those points one at a time upon your mouse click or using a remote.

You can also set your animations to play automatically so they flow through your slide presentations without having to click for each slide to start.

5. Keep It Simple

Overall, you should try to keep animations to a minimum and avoid using the more flashy animations in your presentations. For example, it’s perfectly fine to add a fade-in transition effect to your slides. However, adding flashing and bouncing animations may hurt your reputation as a professional.

Stick to the simple and minimal animations to make your presentations more entertaining and easier to look at.

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PowerPoint animation: the ultimate guide.

• Author James Robinson
• Published August 12, 2024

When you think about PowerPoint animations, does your mind shoot to a chaotic mess of boomerang and dissolve effects? Do you break out in cold sweats as flashbacks of the presentations you created in Primary School appear before your eyes? Hype Presentations is here to wipe your soggy brow and teach you animation etiquette, taking you from newbie to A* developer.

This hangover from an education system that promotes cramming reems of information on one slide, alongside a corporate world that’s taken this tool and created a form of torture , is not helping PowerPoint’s reputation.

You can achieve slick and stunning animation in PowerPoint, animation that enhances your narrative, breaks complicated messages into manageable segments, creates pace and adds atmosphere to your presentation. With the right combination of masking, motion paths, and Hype Presentations know how, much more is possible than you realise. The only real barrier is how much you’re willing to put in.

Choose your level 

There are ranks to animation. I like to think of it as a scale of difficulty, with varying degrees of complexity and distinct levels of audience impact. This guide is broken down into three categories for you to explore or ignore, depending on your skill and comfort level.  On the first rung of the scale, there’s the beginner’s section: the more subtle enhancements that add little flourishes of movement to static images. This level can be attempted by anyone, even the most amateur of animators. On the next tier, we have intermediate animation for people who have been there and done that on the beginner’s level, maxed out the visual impact of these animations and want to take it up a notch. 

Then, at the top of the scale, there’s the advanced, next-level animations for those of you who really want to impress. This is the calibre of movement that literally makes people go wow. We know, we’ve heard it. These animations are smoother, more sophisticated and more complex to implement, but – with a helpful guide – completely attainable. If you’re still on tier one, working your way through this guide will help you ascend the ranks. If you’ve navigated your own way from rookie to competent, jump to the advanced section. This is your guide. It’s here to facilitate your progress, at your own pace.  

1. Beginner 2. Intermediate 3. Advanced

PowerPoint animation for beginners

You’ve got to start somewhere. In this section, you’ll find the stepping stones to animation dexterity. Get to know your options and familiarise yourself with animation best practice before moving onto the animations that require the skill of more deft hands.

Understanding the animation ribbon 

Used judiciously, animations will put the Power in PowerPoint, imbuing your presentation with dynamism and depth. The possibilities are limitless – or certainly too numerous to count. Flip or fly? Spin or shimmer? Hop, boomerang or swoosh? 

Choice is a good thing, but when faced with so many options, it’s easy for choice paralysis to set in. Some people will despair and skip the effects altogether, while others will throw in the kitchen sink amidst a flurry of wipes and whirls. It’s your presentation and you’re free to usher in your key points any way you like before sending them scurrying on their way, but try to heed the following guidelines:

Be consistent . If you’ve got six bullet points on a slide, use the same animation to introduce each one. There are no prizes for ticking off every effect in the PowerPoint library.

Be subtle . For  professional presentations , subtle animations will keep your slides uncluttered and your audience focused on the message rather than the medium.

Be moderate . Don’t feel obliged to animate everything; as a rule of thumb, apply an effect to one third of your slides. That will keep things interesting without becoming distracting.

Know your exits – and your entrances

The animation effects available in PowerPoint can be divided into four categories: Entrance, Exit, Emphasis and Motion Paths. To distinguish them, each category has a corresponding colour: green for Entrance, Red for Exit, yellow for Emphasis and blue for Motion Paths. We’ll delve into the latter in the advanced section, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. 

Entrance effects are handy when you’re switching to a new slide or are introducing a key piece of information. Exit effects can be used to prevent slides from becoming cluttered. Finished discussing a piece of information? Then order it to exit stage right so your audience can focus on what comes next. And Emphasis can work nicely when applied to an entire slide, such as a subtle shimmer when all of your bullet points have appeared on screen.

PowerPoint animation for intermediate users

Now that you’re familiar with basics, it’s time to get intricate. The power is in the detail and it’s these touches that’ll help you stand out in a sea of rudimentary presentations.

Timing to perfection

Once you’re comfortable with the animation ribbon, it can be easy to slip into a pattern of overdoing it. It’s important to think about the timing of your effects from an audience perspective. The audience should be fixated on you. Anything too crazy going on in the background will only serve to distract them. Keep your animations swift, smooth and timely so you’re only tasking your audience with focusing on you.  

People often animate their slides at the speed in which someone would read them, but this is really distracting. Animations should support the presenter, not overshadow them. If you oblige the audience to focus on two things at the same time, you’ll find the presenter having to compete for attention. 

You should know when you’re going to communicate a key point, so make sure the effect you use is timed to reinforce your point, after you’ve made the verbal delivery. That way, animations are used to strengthen your arguments, not dilute them. 

Ideally, effects should only last for a few seconds. Anything longer and you’re compromising your delivery. Keep it simple and snappy. Less is always more.

A quick tip for instant results

Smoothing is instant animation gratification. Outside of PowerPoint, objects rarely stop and start moving suddenly, so why do most presentations jolt around like they’re on a decommissioned rollercoaster? To create an organic feel, simply smooth out your animations. As a general rule, if an object is moving on to the screen, you want to add a smooth end. If it’s moving off, a smooth start is advisable.

Silky smooth animations are a click away. If you’re on a Mac, simply ensure the correct box is ticked in your animation pane:

On PC, right-click the animation in the animation pane and choose  Effect Options.  Here you can drag sliders to change the degree of smoothing at both the start and end of your animations.

PowerPoint animations for advanced users

You’ve made it. This is the pinnacle of animation prowess. We’re about to get technical, so grab a coffee and get ready to start fan-girling over what PowerPoint can do.

Morph: the push-up bra of animations

Morph is so slick and user friendly that it can conjure really complicated, high-level animation, without you having to do a thing. It can transition almost anything – helping you move assets seamlessly from slide to slide without a jitter. By taking different components from different slides, it can piece these parts together to make it look like a single animation. Intuitively, it figures out the best motion path, and puts two and two together to produce a visual that appears as one.   

The easiest way to approach a slick Morph transition is to copy the shape from one slide to the next and then edit it into the new shape. This way, the link is made automatically. Then all you’ve got to do is rinse and repeat. Once you’ve created all your slides, select them, choose  Transitions  in your tool bar and then select  Morph . Simply click into  Slide Show  mode to view your masterpiece.  Advanced 

The top tier of difficulty, and the pinnacle of animations, broken down and simplified for your learning. This section will help you create those seamless transitions that elevate the presentation experience to a whole new level.

If you learn how to mask objects in PowerPoint, you open up a world of animation possibilities. Masking, essentially, is covering the objects you don’t want your audience to see with “invisible” shapes. 

Let’s say you want some text to fly in. Simple enough. You just add the  Fly In  animation, right? Sure, if you always want your text to fly in from the edge like an amateur. What if you want your text to appear to fly in from the centre? This is where masking comes in. You can simply format a shape to match the background of your slide, place it over the animation path, and obscure your text until the perfect moment. 

Perhaps you want a slick animation, showing growth or decline? Masking can help you create a number counter in PowerPoint. You can do this using that  Fly In  animation again and covering up everything except the small window of numbers you want the audience to see. 

Once you’ve perfected your masking technique, you’ll find no end to the number of creative ways to implement this effect.

Motion paths

In order to graduate from primary to secondary animation school, you’ll need to learn about motion paths. Though they can seem awkward, they allow you a great deal of control. Look at what you can achieve with only a few circles and some motion paths. 

Let’s look at another text example. If you have a busy slide, you can end up with several masks and unnecessary complication. You could use  Float-in  instead, but this animation has no smoothing options, so you’re not achieving your slickest motion. Motion paths solve all these challenges, and they’re not that complicated.

• First, apply an entrance animation to your object. Something basic like  Appear  or  Fade  will work best. 
• Then, add a motion path in the direction you want your text to come from. 
• Select the motion path and reverse the path direction. This will make the end point of the motion path the new starting point.
• Adjust the smoothing options to taste. 
• It’s essential the entrance animation and motion path start at the same time and that the entrance animation is top in the animation pane hierarchy, otherwise the object will appear to jump.

Following this method, you can create smooth-looking fly-in with a great amount of flexibility and no masks. 

You can also use motion paths to create beautiful parallax effects. Parallax can be created by applying motion paths, along with the  Grow  and  Shrink  animations, of differing degrees and durations, to objects in the background and foreground so that they appear to move separately to one another. 

If you know your way around Photoshop, you can separate the background and foreground of an image, add them into PowerPoint with a longer motion path on the foreground and shorter one on the background, and voilá. 

But you don’t need to be able to cut up photos to make use of this effect. You can bring life to your images by simply creating a parallax between a background image and any other elements on your slide.

Combining animations

By learning which animation effects work together, you exponentially increase the motion power of PowerPoint. This is where you can really start to push this software to its limits. 

Because there are no animation anchors in PowerPoint, character animation can get very complicated and you’ll need to employ a little insider knowledge to make objects behave the way you want. 

You can make an object rotate around an apparent anchor point quite easily, by grouping it to a mirror image of itself, setting this mirror image to transparent, and applying the  Spin  animation to this group.

What if this object is connected to another, and you need this to move as well? You’ll have to compensate for the parent object’s movement with a motion path on the child object, so they stay connected. This can get very complicated very quickly and, whilst doable, is a limitation for character animation in PowerPoint.   

Likewise, if you want to move an object along a curved path, you’ll probably want to add rotation effects to match any changes in direction, which again can be a painful exercise in trial and error.

Attention: Mac users

Despite the recent addition of the  Animation Painter  tool to PowerPoint for Mac, if you’re working on a Mac in PowerPoint, animation becomes much more difficult. This is because there’s no Advanced Timeline in the animation pane, so all animation delays and durations have to be entered numerically, and there is no way to visualise your timeline without watching it play out on the slide. For this reason, we recommend animating on the Windows version, if possible.

Now that you’ve explored the complex, multi-faceted world of PowerPoint animation, you’re all set to add another dimension of experience to your slides. There’s a lot of information to absorb in this guide, but if we had to engrave one key idea in your memory, it’d be this: for maximum benefit, apply animations like makeup – subtly and in moderation. That way, you’ll enhance your message instead of overpowering it. 

That’s all we’ve got left to say, folks. If you’re committed to receiving an A* in PowerPoint animation, mastering these animation tricks will have you well on your way. Well, what are you waiting for? Get moving.

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In today’s fast-paced world, capturing and maintaining your audience’s attention during a presentation can be a daunting challenge. Standard, static slides often fail to engage viewers, leading to diminished impact and retention of your key messages. As presenters, educators, or professionals, we all strive to make our presentations memorable and effective. This is where animated PowerPoint presentation templates come to the rescue, offering a dynamic and visually appealing way to convey your ideas.

This blog provides a step-by-step guide to creating stunning animated effects in PowerPoint, transforming your slides from mundane to mesmerizing. Each section covers a unique animation technique , complete with detailed instructions and free downloadable templates to help you get started.

1/4 Animated PowerPoint Presentation Templates: Scrolling Blocks

Transform your PowerPoint presentations with a smooth scrolling effect that adds a professional touch to your slides. This technique involves creating a sequence of blocks containing your content that scrolls seamlessly across the slide, allowing you to present multiple points in a dynamic and engaging way.

By following these steps, you’ll learn how to format your background, design content blocks, and use the Morph transition to achieve a captivating scrolling effect:

• On an empty PowerPoint slide, right click and select ‘Format Background’. From the side panel, select ‘Picture or texture fill’ and paste / insert your desired background photo.
• By the left-hand side of your slide, insert a round-edged square with a weighted outline in the color of your choice.
• Right click on the round-edged square and click on ‘Format shape’. From the side panel, fill it with a picture that represents your first point of topic.
• Beside it, insert a rounded rectangle to serve as your text box. Add text on top accordingly.
• Consider the photo + text as one block: add the other blocks just below that will serve as different points of topic for your presentation.
• Once done, group the blocks altogether.
• Add rectangles to the top and bottom edges of the slide, leaving a focal space where one block would fit perfectly.
• Select the newly added rectangles and right click. Then, select ‘Format Object’.
• From the side panel, tick the radio button for “Slide background fill”. This creates an invisible barrier for the top and bottom edges of your slide from which your blocks would slip through under, as if scrolling.
• Duplicate the slide. On the duplicated slide, move the grouped blocks up to position the focus on the 2nd block.
• Keep on duplicating and repeating the same step until all blocks have been positioned at the same focal zone of the slides.
• Once done, select all slides. Go to the ‘Transitions’ tab and apply ‘Morph’.

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2/4 Animated PowerPoint Presentation Templates: Moving Spotlight

Add a dynamic flair to your PowerPoint presentations with a moving spotlight effect that highlights key elements on your slides. This technique is perfect for drawing attention to specific icons or graphics, making your content more engaging and visually appealing.

By following this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a transparent spotlight that moves seamlessly across your slide to focus on different points:

• On an empty slide, insert individual and separate icons or graphics that you want to be spotlit.
• Insert a ‘donut’ shape and make it big enough to cover the entire slide. Adjust its inner thickness to make sure the slide canvas can still be seen from behind.
• Color it black and give it a 30% transparency. To adjust transparency, right click on it, then ‘Format Shape’, and set accordingly from the side panel.
• Duplicate the slide. And on the duplicated slide, adjust the donut’s thickness by dragging the transform point inwards until you make a clear circle fit for each of your individual graphics.
• Move the shape accordingly to give focus to your first graphic, as if a spotlight. Then, add text on the available blank space.
• Duplicate the slide once again. And on yet another duplicated slide, adjust the spotlight to focus the next graphic. Then, add text accordingly.
• Repeat the same steps until all points have been spotlit.

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3/4 Animated PowerPoint Presentation Templates: Opening Doors Transition

This creative technique involves designing a background with doors that open to reveal different slides, creating a visually intriguing and dynamic experience for your audience.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up individual destination slides, design a door-themed background, and link each door to its respective slide:

• Prepare your individual slides, the ones where the doors lead to.
• In this example, we’re using doors to help us achieve the illusion of having to open them to move to a slide. Try Freepik for high-quality, free-to-use images.
• Once you have that photo with doors set as a slide background, insert rectangles on top of each door.
• Select all the rectangles. Then, right click and select ‘Format Object’. From the side panel, tick the radio button for ‘Slide background fill’. Under ‘Line’, tick ‘No line’.
• Select the first rectangle, which should now appear exactly as the first door on the slide background, and go to the ‘Insert’ tab.
• To avoid confusion, make the linking chronological. For instance, the first rectangle (door) is linked to Slide 1. The second is linked to Slide 2, and so on.
• Once hyperlinks are done, duplicate the main (doors) slide to as much as your prepped slides. Then, place the duplicates in between each slide.
• Select all slides then go to the ‘Transitions’ tab and apply ‘Doors’.

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4/4 Animated PowerPoint Presentation Templates: Rotating Circles

Enhance your PowerPoint presentations with a rotating circle transition effect that adds movement and visual interest to your slides.

This technique involves creating a series of circles that rotate and transition smoothly between slides, giving your presentation a dynamic and engaging flow:

• Repeat this step for all the other slides that you have for your presentation.
• Going back to slide #1, insert a circle big enough to cover the entire slide. Then, duplicate it twice sizing each in decreasing sizes.
• Select all 3 circles. Then, right click and select ‘Format Object’.
• From the side panel, tick the radio button for ‘Slide background fill’. Under ‘Line’, tick ‘Solid line’ and color it white. Adjust its transparency to 50% after.
• Copy all the three circles, and then paste them onto the next slide. From here, rotate each circle in different degrees.
• Copy these newly-rotated circles and paste, once again, onto the slide up next. Repeat the same steps until you finish all your slides.
• Once done, add text accordingly to each slide.
• Select all slides then go to the ‘Transitions’ tab and apply ‘Morph’.

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Best Practices for PowerPoint Presentation Animations and Transitions

1. Keep It Simple

While animations can greatly enhance your presentation, overusing them can have the opposite effect. Avoid cluttering your slides with too many animations. Instead, choose one or two animation effects that complement your message and use them consistently throughout your presentation.

2. Match the Animation and/or Transition to Your Message

Select animations that align with the tone and content of your presentation. For instance, subtle animations like fades and wipes are suitable for professional settings, while more dynamic effects like spins and zooms can be used for creative or informal presentations.

3. Test Your Animations   and/or Transitions

Before presenting, always preview your animations to ensure they work as intended. Run through your slides several times to catch any issues and make necessary adjustments. This helps you deliver a polished and professional presentation.

4. Consistency is Key

Maintain consistency in your animation style throughout the presentation. This creates a cohesive look and feel, making your presentation more professional. Stick to a few animation types and use them uniformly across all slides.

5. Consider Your Audience

Always consider your audience when choosing animations. Ensure that your animations are appropriate for the context and audience demographics. For example, a corporate audience may prefer minimalistic animations, while a younger audience may enjoy more dynamic effects.

Food for Thought

As you explore the possibilities of animated PowerPoint presentation templates to enhance your interactive PowerPoint presentation experience, remember that the goal is to enhance your message, not overshadow it. Animations and transitions should serve to highlight your key points and maintain audience engagement, but they should never detract from the core content of your presentation.

Consider the story you want to tell with your slides. How can animations help you convey this story more effectively? Think about your audience’s perspective and how you can use these techniques to create a memorable and impactful experience.

Finally, don’t be afraid to experiment and find your own style. The tools and templates provided in this blog are starting points; feel free to customize and adapt them to suit your unique presentation needs. With practice and creativity, you can master the art of animated presentations and leave a lasting impression on your audience.

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A single animated PowerPoint template will create a more engaging presentation. But soon, you'll need another. You can save a lot of time by bookmarking a template resource that offers animated slide decks. And wouldn't it be nice if they were free, too?

Luckily, we've got you covered. Check out these free sites for animated PowerPoint templates and slide decks.

Canva is one of the most popular social design platforms out there. It allows users to create dynamic and beautiful documents, infographics, presentations, and much more. Canva has a host of tools that make it easy to develop professional designs. You can customize them quickly and easily as per your requirements.

Canva offers several animated presentation templates as well. You can edit, record, and share them right in the browser! You can also download them as PPTX files. To edit them in PowerPoint instead of Canva's browser software, follow these steps:

• Click the template you like on the search results page.
• Select Customize This Template .
• From the editor, click the Ellipsis (...) menu.
• Select Microsoft PowerPoint under the Share options.

You may be able to get free Canva Premium as a student . This opens up all of Canva's premium animated assets for you to use.

2. Envato Elements

Envato Elements is a premium website, but you can grab a total of twelve free templates for download every month. Envato Elements has a good stock of animated PowerPoint templates for meetings , as well as webinars and reports.

In addition to infographics, you can find colorful event templates. These are suitable for turning into social media stories. Envato Elements also has a collection of PowerPoint templates that are optimized for Instagram Stories as well.

3. Slidesgo

Slidesgo offers a host of free as well as premium animated templates. These files work in both PowerPoint and Google Slides. They're available in many themes, from birthday slideshows to infographics.

The templates on the site are colorful, with a fun aesthetic, and are generally well suited to events. Grade-school or high-school projects would also work well on these templates.

4. PowerPoint School

Besides a huge selection of animated PowerPoint templates, PowerPoint School offers infographics and timeline templates. You'll also find easy-to-follow tutorials to add your own animations.

Many of the templates are generic, but stylish. You'll find both colorful and minimalist ones, monochrome charts, graphs, and explainers—perfect for your next quarterly report or Zoom meeting.

5. Slideegg

Slideegg is yet another template resource. It limits free accounts to five downloads per day. Each download contains a single animated slide. On one hand, this means you might need two or more days to grab enough slides. On the other hand, mixing and matching gives you almost endless possibilities.

You can also add templates to your Wish List to save them for later. Most templates are geared toward infographics and other informational presentations. But you can still find fun animated slides for brand demonstrations and events, too.

6. SlideModel

SlideModel has a good selection of free animated PowerPoint templates. But, its search engine has no filters, making it tough to find them among the premium offerings.

The easiest way to find the free templates is to Google this string: site:Slidemodel.com “free” AND “animated” . This will bring up the array of free, animated PowerPoint files available from SlideModel.com.

7. SlideSalad

SlideSalad has several business and informational templates. They provide slick, animated designs for proposals, reports, portfolios, and more. Graduate students can also find attractive templates for thesis defense.

You will need a free account to download templates. You can set the filters to Free to see the entire collection of freely available templates. SlideSalad also has premium templates, but doesn't run on a subscription plan. Instead, you'll need to pay per-order for premium templates.

8. Presenter Media

Presenter Media offers a variety of presentation tools and resources, including professionally-designed PowerPoint templates, animated clip art and 3D animations, customizable video backgrounds, and stock images.

The 3D interactive viewer allows you to customize designs and graphics with text, images, and colors as you like. This is great for creating more engaging and interactive presentations.

With the video creator tool, you can create promotional materials, explainer videos, or other types of video content for business or personal use.

9. SlideHunter

SlideHunter mostly offers a selection of static templates, but has four excellent options available for animation. Two for communication presentations, one for social media and networking, and yet another productivity-themed slide.

You can get even more use out of these templates by adding your own PowerPoint animations. A simple transition effect can make PowerPoint's included slides blend seamlessly with SlideHunter's templates.

10. Slide Chef

Slide Chef is another free slide resource. Its templates are for Google Slides, but you can use the files in PowerPoint as well. You'll get access to a variety of templates that are good for children's lessons. The animation is sure to help hold their attention.

There are also a good many resources suitable for business, creatives, brochures, and pitch decks. You can even find scientific explainers and more generic templates, too.

11. SlidesMania

SlidesMania is a wonderful resource for slides. With access to thousands of slides, you can beam any information at any time to your audience in stunning visuals. It's widely appealing for young students and teachers alike.

While some slide decks on SlidesMania are fully animated, others only animate the cover. The style is good for childrens' lessons or holiday events.

Unlike many other templates, SlidesMania templates offer more than transitions and entrance animations. The backgrounds and decorative elements are animated, too.

12. Giant Template

Giant Template offers only one animated PowerPoint template. Yet, this template contains 30 different slides, all of them animated. Most of the graphics are stylish geometric shapes and are easily customizable.

Other graphics include pictures that you can swap out for your own photos or logos. You can re-use these classy slides by adjusting colors and swapping out some images.

13. Abert's Shop

This private Gumroad shop has several free PowerPoint templates. It specializes in infographics and charts, so it's great for explainers and business reports. Some are editable in Excel, so you can integrate your detailed charts and graphics .

All the templates are based on a "pay what you want" model, so you can enter $0.00 and get it for free. If you like it, and go back and leave a tip to support the creator.

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With these template providers, you can prepare pitches, reports, proposals, and other in-person communications. We recommend trying them out to create professional looking presentations, creatives, and more. Simply swap some colors and images, add your text, and you're good to go!

But PowerPoint isn't just for slideshows. We encourage you to look up a few cool tips to make the most of PowerPoint template resources, for both presentations and static media like posters and flyers.

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Can Animations Enhance or Harm Your Presentation?

Animations can undoubtedly enhance your presentation, by adding visual interest and making them more engaging. But did you know that overuse of animations can actually ruin your presentation?

Too many animations, flashy effects can distract your audience from the main content, making it difficult to follow along. It’s like trying to read a book with loud music played on– it’s overwhelming and counterproductive.

Additionally, excessive animations can slow down the pace of the presentation, leading to boredom or even frustration. Remember, the goal is to enhance the content, not overshadow it.

So, what can be done? Should I skip using animations in presentations? No, you shouldn’t. Moreover, start using animations effectively.

To use animations without detracting from your message, use them judiciously. Rather than using it as a guide, consider it as a prominent tool to emphasize key points, reveal information gradually, or create visual interest. Less is often more.

Always align animations with the content, ensuring they serve a purpose and enhance understanding. By using animations strategically, you can create a presentation that is both visually appealing and informative.

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We all know a picture is worth thousands of words, what about a moving picture? Whether you are animating a presentation for your business or just adding some flair to your school project, animations can add interest to even the simplest of ideas. And these animation infographics are easy to customize. Finding best-animated templates can be a tedious task, so here we have listed out the  best free Google slides templates

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There are many sites where you can find free animated PowerPoint templates, like Slidebazaar, Slidekit, Slideheap. While other sites charge for their animated presentation templates , SlideChef offers them for free.

Here in our gigantic library one can find animated business templates , movie animation slides , animate templates for teachers .

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