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Free Gifs for PowerPoint to Animate Your Killer Presentation

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Do you know what will make your presentation even more awesome? Animations, that’s what. This is why today we gathered for you an entire collection of free Gifs for PowerPoint you can download and use right away. In the following article, you’ll find our exclusive free for personal and commercial use character-based GIF animations, as well as freebie animations from other sources.

Since we added a new category for PowerPoint presentations where we added our free and premium packs, we decided to expand the concept and add other resources, such as the animations you’re about to see. So let’s jump right in.

Article overview: 1. Free Gifs for PowerPoint by GraphicMama 2. Free PowerPoint Animation Sources by Other Creators 2.1. Free Social Media Animations from Cliply 2.2. Fair Use Free Gifs on Giphy 2.3. Fair Use Free Gifs on Tenor 2.4. Generating Free Animated Gifs for Presentations by MotionElements 3. Premium Animated GIF sets

1. Free Gifs for PowerPoint by GraphicMama

We’ll start with a royalty-free collection of our own. We made these Gifs for PowerPoint and would love to share them with you. These are exclusive for today’s article, so you won’t find them anywhere on our website. With that out of the way, feel free to download any pack of animations you like directly and get creative with your next presentation. Each bundle includes the poses you’ll see in the preview image in a zip file with high-quality transparent gifs with 1080 px width.

📝 These characters are also exclusive free puppets for your animation videos. You can find them in our article, a collection of  Most Awesome and Free Character Animator Puppets .

Alex The Businessman Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Waving, Thumbs Up, Puzzled, Pointing Up

Here’s one of our most popular characters with 4 different presentational poses. The young businessman always brings a good mood and professionalism.

• 4 Separate Animations
• Files : Transparent GIF
• Height : 1080 pixels
• Based on: Alex the Businessman Puppet for Character Animator
• License : Royalty-Free │ Free for Personal and Commercial Use │ Do Not Sell or Distribute

Viking Boy Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Waving, Showing, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

Big and strong Viking boy with a soft and kind heart. He’s the sidekick of his young but fierce Viking sister and together they invade presentations and make them awesome.

• Based on: Free Male Viking Character Set  for presentations

Viking Girl Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Showing, Waving, Thumbs Up, Pointing Up

And here she is, the little sister with an attitude. Trained as a great warrior, the Viking girl means business and doesn’t back down.

• Based on : Free female Viking Cartoon Character Set

Cute Business Bear Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Showing, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up, Waving

Can’t bear the awesomeness of the charming business bear and his impeccable sports elegant style.

• Based on : Free Bear Cartoon Character Set

Friendly Caveman Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Pointing Up, ThumbsUp, Waving, Angry with a Bat

Detailed cartoon of a confident caveman with an epic unibrow that will bring a lot of fun to your videos. One of the animations gives him a stone bat to wave around fiercely if your audience doesn’t pay enough attention.

• Based on : Free Caveman Cartoon Character Set

Charming Green Witch Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Thumbs Up 1, Showing, Waving, Thumbs Up 2

Luckily, we’re past the middle ages and it’s ok and legal to bring some sorcery into your presentations. When it comes to PowerPoint magic, this sweet green witch is your girl.

Cool Tiger Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Puzzled 1, Impatient, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

Here’s a beautiful striped powerful-looking but quite a friendly tiger cartoon character. He’s very diverse in terms of projects you can use him for.

Nerdy Entrepreneur Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: A Brilliant Idea, Thumbs Up, Waving, Pointing Up

This guy is full of brilliant ideas so if you relate, why not join forces and make an insightful business presentation for your viewers.

• Based on: Free Presentation Cartoon Character Set

Businesswoman Executive Free Gifs for PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Showing, Waving, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

This charming lady is a business strategist character and has rolled her sleeves to do some winning. Ideal for marketing presentations and explainer videos.

Powerful Female Superhero Free PowerPoint Gif Animations

Poses Preview: Waving 1, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up, Waving 2, Power Up

This superhero girl packs beauty and power in one character.  She floats in the air while giving presentations some star power.

• 5 Separate Animations

Superhero With a Cape Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Thumbs Up, Waving, Pointing Up, Confused

Sometimes, what you need is a mighty superhero with a cool cape. So, here’s a powerful crime-fighter with a hidden identity behind a mask with laser eyes.

• Based on : Free Superhero Cartoon Character Set

Octoberfest Waitress Free Gifs for PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Dessert, Waving, Thumbs Up, Menu

Next is a lovely blonde Octoberfest-style waitress with sweet desserts and a menu animation poses. Ideal for presentations related to restaurants, bars, beer and sweets.

Chilling Monk Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Waving, Tea, Pointing Up

Eastern monk with a hot cup of tea. Nothing less than pure relaxation for your zen presentation.

• 3 Separate Animations
• Based on : Free Monk Boy Cartoon Character Set

Cute Retro Robot Free PowerPoint Animations

Poses Preview: Hiding, Pointing, Shy, Love, Thumbs Up, Waving

This a very cute, shy vintage robot puppet that rocks the retro-futuristic style as a character coming straight out of a SciFi movie from the 60s. Ideal for presentations about technology.

• 6 Separate Animations

Friendly Shark Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Attention, Vibing, Waving, Bye Bye

Here’s Sharkboy. The lovable, friendly goofy shark who’s just vibing and will make you fall in love with him.

2. Free PowerPoint Animation Sources by Other Creators

These were the exclusive free PowerPoint animations we had much fun making and were eager to share. Now, let’s move on to the other sources that we recommend when you’re in search of royalty-free animations or gifs under the Fair Use copyright law. We’ll point out the specific terms of each source in its respective category.

📝 Please keep in mind that non-profit and educational projects are always a safe option when using free resources.

2.1. Free Social Media Animations from Cliply

Cliply has a huge collection of premium animated icons and other animations. Depending on if you purchase freebies, premium, or business resources, the licenses and uses vary. This is why make sure to check out the license on every resource you decide to download.

However, today we’re all about free animations. That’s why we’ve selected some great-looking social media icon animations for your social media slides in PowerPoint.

YouTube Icon Free Animation

• Files : MOV, MP4, PNG, GIF
• Height : Up to 1080 px
• License : Free for personal, nonprofit, and educational use.
• Terms : Attribution not required but appreciated

Twitter Icon Free Animation

Tiktok logo free animation, tiktok icon free animation, social media icons free animation, linkedin icon free animation, instagram likes free animation.

• License : Royalty-Free │ Free for personal, nonprofit, and educational use.
• Terms : Attribution not required

Instagram Icon Free Animation

Facebook icon free animation, 2.2. fair use free gifs on giphy.

Aside from the free PowerPoint animations, you can also benefit from using live-action GIFs.  Giphy is one of the databases that offer an endless library of GIFs based on movies, tv-shows, videos, and everything else. You will find out everything viral and the latest memes made into GIFs. Now, the question is. Is it legal to use a free GIF that has a few seconds from a scene from an obviously copyrighted movie or video?

📝  Just like every other creative work, GIFs are copyright material. However . They are more complicated as there is no legal way to license the use of GIFs for the purposes of commercial use. With this being said, in most cases, GIFs fall under the grey area of Fair Use .

With this in mind, you will find out many brands use such GIFs for their blog posts, ads, and social media. You can also use such materials in your PowerPoint presentations to make your visuals more fun and engaging. Especially if you’re an educator and wish to make your lesson more exciting for your student. Memes will save us all! 🙂

Below are some great examples from Giphy great for presentational purposes.

Simpson’s Free Presentation GIF

Cartman free presentation gif, 2.3. fair use free gifs on tenor.

Similar to Giphy,  Tenor also offers a huge database of GIF images on every topic. This database benefits from an entire community of users uploading GIFs on a daily basis so there’s something for everyone.

For example, here’s how to make your cats listen to you and watch your presentation.

Thursday Laser Pointer GIF

Cartoon science presentation gif, 2.4. generating free animated gifs for presentations by motionelements.

And the last source, something we stumbled on recently, is MotionElements . This is a royalty-free marketplace in Asia for stock media where we found a curious way to make presentation GIFs. It’s not free PowerPoint animations but gives an equally nice interaction and life to a presentation.

Their  free animated gifs category  has various few-seconds videos that you can turn into GIFs. When you click a video, you can select which moment from it you’d like as a GIF. Once you’re ready, you can choose to save the GIF in three different sizes.

• Requirements: Downloading freebies requires registration (no credit card info required unless you want to download Premium resources)
• License: Royalty-Free │ Safe for Commercial Use
• Available Gif Sizes from Videos: Small (256 x 144 px), Medium (480 x 270 px), Large ( 640 x 360 px)

Below are a few examples of GIFs we’ve made from MotionElement’s videos to try out the GIF-maker.

Young Successful Businesswoman Free Stock Gif

Welcome to the presentation free stock gif, business concept wordstorm free stock gif, grand opening presentation intro free stock gif, 3. premium animated gif sets.

These were the exclusive free PowerPoint animations by Graphic Mama and free gifs and animations from other sources. We hope you enjoyed the collection and expanded your library with valuable resources for your next presentation.

Now, if you really want to make a hyper-interactive PowerPoint presentation with more matching action poses and versatile concept animations, have a look below.

We made the following animation sets specifically with that idea in mind and we’re excited to show them off.

Nick Smartman Animated GIF Images Collection

Nick is a smart business cartoon character set of 12 animated GIFs. The animations suit many different purposes, like presentations, or social media posts.

• 12 Separate Animations for PowerPoint
• Files : Transparent GIF images
• Based on: Nick Smartman Character Set   │ Puppet

Elegant Businesswoman Animated GIFs Collection

Here’s our lovely elegant business lady character that comes in 12 different presentational animations in GIF format. The animations feature pointing, waving, peeking, targeting, and more.

• Based on: Attractive Businesswoman Character Animator Puppet

Flying Robot Animated GIFs Collection

There is not a single reason why you shouldn’t put a robot character in your presentation. Robots are cool, and everybody loves them. This little guy is jet-packed with 12 different animations and emotions.

• Based on : Flying Robot Cartoon Character Set  │ Puppet

Cute Panda Animated GIFs Collection

Bambootiful panda character arrives with 12 different animations to assist your presentations. The cute panda set features the animated concepts in GIF format files, ready to import and use for your projects.

• Based on: Cute Panda Character Set  │   Puppet

Alice Skinny Jeans Animated GIFs Collection

Alice is a cute, young woman cartoon character with blonde hair. She is available in a set of 12 animated GIFs. Each of them is 1080px tall. They are perfect for many different purposes, for example, you can use them in your presentations, or combine them with text and use them in social media.

• Based on : Casual Alice with Skinny Jeans Character Set  │ Puppet

Alfred Carierist Animated GIFs Collection

Alfred is a smart executive-type businessman character, available in a set of 12 animated GIFs. Each of the animated GIFs is 1080px tall. They are perfect for many different purposes, for example, you can use them in your presentations, or combine them with text and use them in social media.

• Based on: Alfred the Careerist Character Set  │ Puppet

Final Words

Animations in PowerPoint are absolutely awesome. They give that extra chef’s kiss that can turn a presentation into a personal masterpiece. Feel free to use our free Gifs for PowerPoint for your next project and build more engagement.

In the meantime, for more free resources for PowerPoint, check out these related articles.

• The Best Free PowerPoint Templates to Download in 2022
• 30 Free Cute PowerPoint Templates: Collection For A Sweet Presentation
• 25 Free Education PowerPoint Templates For Lessons, Thesis, and Online Lectures

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How To Insert An Animated GIF In PowerPoint

A great way to grab their attention

Using different media types during a PowerPoint presentation helps keep the audience entertained. Inserting an animated GIF in PowerPoint can capture attention and add humor when well-placed and relevant to the topic.

This article will show you how to insert and use animated GIFs in PowerPoint presentations to demonstrate an activity, convey a message, or grab the audience’s attention.

Insert an Animated GIF In PowerPoint From Your Computer

• Start by opening PowerPoint and navigating to the slide where you want to add the animated GIF. Click on Insert in the top navigation and double click on Pictures .

• If you have an animated GIF on your computer, choose the file from its location and click Open .
• Navigate to Slide Show from the top bar navigation. Click on From Current Slide to see the animated GIF in action. It won’t show the movement from the slide view.

• When you play the slideshow during a presentation, the GIF is animated automatically.

Insert an Animated GIF In Powerpoint From Online Image Search

• If you don’t have a GIF on your computer, you can use the online image search to locate one. Go to the slide where you want to add the GIF.
• Click on Insert in the top navigation and choose Online Pictures (PowerPoint 2013 and later.)

• Search in the popup box for an image to use in your presentation. You can narrow your search by typing gif .

• By default, Creative Commons only is checked off. You only want to use images that are legal in your presentation so keep it checked.
• Select the image you want to use and click Insert to add it to your slide. Narrow your search even more by using specific keywords. For example, typing office GIF will only show animated images related to an office.

Notice the animated GIFs from the online option bring with them the image sources. It’s best to keep them in your presentation to protect yourself legally, even though they are under Creative Commons License.

How To Control Animated GIF Loops

An animated GIF is like a mini-movie. GIFs have a minimum of two images in separate frames. The number of frames determines the animation. While the length of the animation depends upon the number of times the frames loop.

Many GIFs, such as the bottom one above in the screenshot , are set to loop continuously. This can be very distracting in a PowerPoint presentation.

To limit how long the animation lasts, try using an online GIF editor such as ezgif.com or giphy.com . You can also try editing your GIF in CC Photoshop .

• Let’s use ezgif . Click on GIF Resizer.  

• Upload your GIF to the website or insert the URL of the image.

• This step will show you every frame used to animate the image and how long it lasts. 

• Scroll down to Loop Count under GIF options. 

• Enter the number of times you want the GIF to loop and click the blue Make a GIF button . Download the edited GIF to your computer and then insert it into your presentation.

Edit The Animated GIF In PowerPoint

You can resize and move a GIF inside your PowerPoint presentation just as you can with an image. Drag one of the four corners of the GIF so that you don’t distort the aspect ratio.

To rotate the image, drag the circular anchor above the image until it is where you want it.

There are several other image editing options, such as adding shadows, borders, and reflections. Some effects might affect the animation. Play the Slide Show from the current slide to make sure you didn’t cancel the animation.

Adding a Frame To Animated GIFs

To add a frame around an animated GIF you’ve created , click on the image and select Format from the top bar navigation under Picture Tools .

As seen in the screenshot above, there are several frame options. Below are examples of a few of them with our animated GIF.

Notice in the screenshot above that the white frame doesn’t animate. So, again, always check any image effects you add to an animated GIF to make sure you don’t break it.

How To Make An Animated GIF

Let’s use the same online free tool to create a GIF that we used to edit one – ezgif . Create your own animated GIF by uploading a sequence of different image files. You can use JPG, BMP, GIF, TFF, PNG, Zip image archives and mix different formats and sizes. Ezgif will convert them automatically for you.

• Start by clicking Browse under Select images . Hold down the Ctrl key when choosing multiple photos.

• Once you have selected the images you want to use, click Open. Before creating the GIF, adjust some of the settings, including the frame order and animation speed. Don’t forget to set the number of times you want the animated GIF to loop; otherwise, it will loop continuously.

• If your uploaded images are not the same size, click Resize to crop and match them to the smallest one automatically. It’s better to make an image smaller than larger so as not to distort or make it blurry. 
• Click the blue button that says Upload and make a GIF! After generating the GIF, you can crop, resize, and optimize it.

Check out the other tools ezgif provides. They are all free to use and can help add some fun to your PowerPoint presentations. There are plenty of ways you can create your own unique GIF’s. You could even try turning your iOS Live Photos Into GIF Images.

Why Add Animated GIFs To PowerPoint Presentations?

GIFs are in-between static images and videos. They are smaller files, take up less space on your computer, and add a few seconds of enjoyment. Those few seconds can help re-engage viewers who might be losing interest. Adding a familiar or funny animated GIF will make your presentation memorable to your audience.

Spruce up your PowerPoint by adding some funny GIFs. Lighten up the mood of what might otherwise be a mundane presentation. They will also help your audience relate to you by making you appear more approachable. Don’t overdo it.

When used in moderation, adding animated GIFs to your PowerPoint will sprinkle something unique into your presentation and help your audience remember its content and message. 

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