PowerPoint Animation Tutorial - Learn How To Animate

Hey everyone, Kevin here. Today I want to  show you the fundamentals of animation in Microsoft PowerPoint. We're going to start off  with the basics of how you create just a very simple animation. We'll also run through  all of the different animation tools that you have available to you. Once we look at the  basics, then we'll go a little bit more advanced, and we'll create a more complex animation that  involves different layers. Once we run through that, I also want to show you how you can cr

eate  a morph and also an advanced morph transition, which is also a form of an animation. Then  at the very end, we're also going to look at how you can animate 3D objects. By the end  of this video, you should know all of the essentials of how to animate in PowerPoint. All  right, well, let's jump on the PC and let's start animating. Here I am now on my PC, and I already  have Microsoft PowerPoint open. If you want to follow along with this tutorial today, I'll go to  pretty good pace so you c

an follow along as well. First off, open up PowerPoint and jump into a  blank new presentation. We don't need anything in place. We'll be able to just start with  blank and we'll create everything that we need as we go through this step-by-step. Once you land  in your new presentation, right now it's just blank and we want to start animating. To animate,  we need some type of object on our slide. To get an object, let's go up to the top ribbon and click  on insert, and within insert, we're going

to start off really basic today and let's just click on  shapes and I'll use an oval right here and I'll insert this on my slide. You can use any type of  shape, but I'm just going to start with this one. I'll click on this and now I'm going to draw an  oval on my slide. Just as a quick little tip, if you want a perfect circle, you could press the  shift key, and this will give you a nice circle, and I'll just position that right here on my  slide. So, we have our first shape and now we want to

start animating. So to animate, let's  go to the top ribbon and there's an option here called animations. Let's click on this. This opens  up the animation ribbon and you'll see here that there are all these different tools available to  animate this scene or this object. Now right now, everything is grayed out. To highlight this,  let's go down and click on the shape that you just inserted. Once you click on it, you'll see all  of these different animation options light up. First, let's start

over on the left-hand side  where you have this section called animation. You'll see a few different types of animations  that you can apply to this object. Right here, you can scroll through all of the different  options, but an easier way to get an overview of all of the different options or all the different  animations that you have available to you, go down and click on this arrow on the bottom and  this exposes the entire set. So right here, we see a number of different categories of anima

tions  that we have available. Right now, we don't have any animation on our object, so it's currently  set to none. You can always use this to remove any animations in the future. Right here, you have  entrance animations, you have emphasis animations, exit, and also motion paths. Now the easiest way  to understand what these are, I'm going to jump to another slide, and I'll just show a quick  example of what these are. I'm in presentation mode right now and let's start off with entrance.  Entr

ance means that the shape is not yet visible, but when let's say I hit my mouse, it'll animate  the shape in. You also have another category of animations called emphasis and here when I click,  you'll see that it just emphasizes the shape. The shape's already visible on the slide and  it'll stay on the slide. It simply emphasizes it. You have another category of animations called  exit. So here you see the shape and when I do the animation, it'll exit out of the scene. And then  the last catego

ry is motion path. Well, here you can set up a path that the object will follow. Now  that we've looked at what all of these different categories are, let's apply our first animation  to this shape. To apply an animation, I can simply click on one of these and then that'll animate  it. So here, for example, maybe I want it to float in. Let's click on the float in option. Right  there, you'll see a preview of the animation. If I want to preview the animation again, up on  the top ribbon, once aga

in, under animations, over on the left-hand side, I have this button  called preview. When I click on this, once again, I can preview what the animation looks like.  And you notice too, once I applied an animation, so let's say I click on fly in, here it'll  preview the animation when I select it up here. Over on the left-hand side, if I click on  this dropdown, I can turn on or off auto preview. I like leaving it on. That way, when  you select an animation, you can quickly see what it looks lik

e on your slide. We've  now applied our first animation to a shape, and we know how to preview it. And if I go right  back up here and I look at all of the animations, it looks like you have a bunch of different  options, but you know, once you start playing with it, you might feel that you don't have enough  right here. If we look at the very bottom here, you have access to even more effects. So, you  could get even more entrance, emphasis, exit, or motion path effects. So here I'll click on mo

re  entrance effects, and this opens up a prompt where you can see a very broad collection of different  effects. So right here, maybe I want to go with boomerang, I'll select this one and then click on  okay. Once again, it's set to preview the effect once I select it. So right here, you can see  it now and let's preview this animation. So, this is one of the animations that's not part of  the default set, but you can access it down here. So, it's easy to miss this, but there are a lot  more an

imations that you can choose from. So, I now set this boomerang effect. If I go back up  to my animations, if I click on any one of these, so let's say that I go with fly in. When I click  on this, this overwrites the animation that I already had selected. So here, if I click  on zoom, it'll overwrite the fly in. Here, if I click on fly in, that'll overwrite the zoom.  So anytime you click on an animation over here, it'll overwrite any preexisting animation that  you have set to an object. I've

now set the fly in animation to this shape. And if we look up  on top on the ribbon, once again, right to the right of all of my different animations, there  is something called effect options. Now you'll notice when I play this animation, it comes in  from the bottom or it flies in from the bottom. If I click over on effect options, I can alter  the direction that this shape comes in from. So maybe I want it to come from the left.  I could have it come in from there. I could have it come in fro

m the right. So, it gives me  some control over what this animation looks like. Later on in this tutorial, I'll show you even  more ways you can gain even more control over what these animations are. If I click on these  different shapes, you'll notice that some of them have different effect options. So here for split,  you could have it split in or split out. And some of them won't have any effect options at all.  But here you'll notice as I'm clicking through, most of them do, but some of them

don't. I'm going  to go back now and select the fly in animation. And let's say that I want the shape to fly in, but  then I want it to also fly out. Now I can click on here and let's say I go with fly out. Now just  like I said before, when you select an animation in here, it overwrites whatever animation  you had in place. So here if I preview it, it just flies out now and it no longer flies  in. Let me go back and I'll select the fly in entrance animation and I'll set that. I like  the fly i

n, but now I want to add an additional animation to this. So right up again on the  ribbon, if we work our way over to the right, another option here is called add animation. When  I click on this, this once again shows me all of the different animations that are available to me.  So here I see all those same categories again, and once again, I can access the overflow over here in  these different options down here. Now I already have the fly in animation, but I also want it to  fly out. So I'll

select fly out right down here. I've now added an additional animation. Here if I  go over to the top left-hand corner and click on preview, here you see it fly in and then it flies  out. So, I've now added multiple animations. Also, if we look over at the object that I animated,  you'll see these two numbers here. You have a one and a two. If I click on the number one over  here, you'll notice up here on the ribbon that it shifted the animation and it shows that I have a  fly in selected. If I

click on number two here, it shows that the second animation is the fly out. So  this is a quick way just to check what animations you have applied to an object. Now that I have  two different animations applied to this object, let's jump into presentation mode to see how this  works. Right now, I'm in presentation mode and the object or the oval isn't yet visible because it  hasn't entered. I can simply click on the slide that'll kick off the entrance animation. And  then when I click again an

ywhere on this slide, it'll animate out or it'll fly out. So that's  exactly how it should behave. So, let's say I want a different trigger for this object. So right up  here, right over to the right of add animation, we have this option called trigger. So, I could set a  condition for when I want this object to animate. So, let's click on this and maybe I'll do  it for the exit or the fly out animation. So here I'll click on trigger, and I see that  there are two different options. There's on c

lick of and also on bookmark. So right here I  can set the trigger to on the click of the oval. So here I'll click on the oval. So for it to fly  out, I have to specifically click on the oval. Here I'll jump in presentation mode again, and  here I can animate it in. But if I just click on the slide, it'll just simply jump to the next  slide. It won't actually animate it out because I have to click on the object. So I'll click on  that and that'll now animate out. So especially if you start build

ing more complex animations,  you might want someone to say click on a button or click in a specific area of your screen to kick  off or trigger the animations. This is a helpful tool that you can use to accomplish that. Now  that I've added a trigger, over by the oval, once again, you'll see my different animations. I have  one and then I have the second one. For the second one, you'll see this trigger icon indicating that  I've assigned a trigger to this second animation. If I want to remove t

he trigger, I could simply  click on step two right here. So I'll select that and up here in the ribbon, I could just go  right back to trigger, click on click of, and then I could uncheck oval five. So right now  it's back to the original state where I can click anywhere on the slide to kick off this animation.  Now that we have some basic animations working, we've also added multiple animations. What if  you want the animation to apply to another shape? Well here, for example, I could click on

this  object, and I'll press control C to copy and control V to paste. And so here now I have another  oval. And here you'll notice that it carried over the same animations. So first I have the fly in,  the fly out on the first oval, and then once that animation is done, it'll jump to the second  oval where it'll both fly in and fly out. So that's one way you can copy the animations. You  simply copy the shape and all of those associated animations will carry with it. Now let's say you  want to

add other shapes to your slide, and you also want those to carry the same animation,  but maybe you don't want to copy and paste. Right up here, I'll go right back onto the top,  click on insert, and then I'll go over to shapes. And once again, I'll insert another  oval. I'll insert an oval right here, and let me copy and paste it, and I'll just paste  it two more times. So here I have three new ovals. Now right now I don't have any animations on these  three ovals. I'll go back to the animatio

n ribbon, and here you see that only this oval, this was our  original one, has animations, and the one I copied and pasted also has animations assigned to it. But  I want these same animations from the first one and the second one, I want them to also apply to  these. How can I easily take these animations and apply it to this other shape? This is where the  animation painter can help us. When I have this object selected, you'll see that I have these two  animations assigned to it. Right up her

e on the ribbon, I have all these different options, and  there is one called animation painter. What this will do is it takes all of my different animations  that I've assigned to this shape, and I can very quickly pull it over and then apply it to another  shape. So here with this shape selected, I'll go up, let's click on animation painter, and you'll  see that I have this paint brush right next to my mouse. That indicates that the animation painter  is currently active. I'll bring it down an

d let's click on this shape. Right now you got a preview  of the animation. It flew in and then it flew out. You also see the five and the six. So it's now the  fifth and also the sixth animation on this slide. So that looks pretty good right now. Basically  I took the animations from this first one and I applied it to the second one. Here if I throw  it into presentation mode, we see the first one flies in, flies out. This one flies in, flies out,  and then the third one flies in and flies out.

It's taken the animation exactly as it was on the  first one and it's applied it to this one. Now I do have two more ovals and I could go through  with the animation painter. I could click here, click on the next shape, click on the animation  painter again, and then click on the next shape. But let's say I have a whole bunch of different  objects that I want to apply the animation to. There's got to be an easier way. I can click  on this shape, and this has the animations and instead of just p

ressing once on the animation  painter, I'll double click on it. Now that I've double clicked on it, once again you see the  paint brush icon and I could click on this shape, and you'll see that the paint brush  is still there. So I can now go over, click on another shape, and once again that's  applied the same animation to this new shape. Once I'm done applying the animation,  I'll simply click on the escape key. Now once again when we looked at the trigger, we  saw how you could click on the

shape to trigger it, but here for example, I could select  this shape and if I go back over to trigger, here you can see a click on any one of these  shapes can trigger the animation on this one. So once again, like I said earlier, you can have  say a button or some other control on your slide that'll kick off an animation somewhere else on  your slide. So, it's pretty powerful stuff. We've gone through a lot of the basics now and just  to simplify, I'm going to remove some of these shapes just

to make it easier. I'll select these  three shapes that I added, and I'll delete them. So right now, we just have two of these ovals  left and right now we have them animated. Now especially as you start getting a lot of  animations, here you see I have one through four different animations. It could start getting a  little disorienting. Let's say maybe I want this one to animate before this oval. The easiest way  to adjust the order of animations is right up here under advanced animation. There

is an option  called animation pane. When I click on this, this opens up a pane over on the right-hand  side, and here if I select the first oval, it'll highlight all of the animations associated  with this oval. Here for example too, I could click on the second oval and here you'll see that  it highlights all of those associated animations. Now let's say that I wanted this one to animate  before this oval. Well here I could select oval seven and I'll select all the different options  here and

then I can click on this up arrow and this will move it up in the order. So here  now, if I throw it into presentation mode, here you'll see this one comes in, flies out,  and then the other one flies in and flies out. That allows me to shift the order. So especially  when you start getting a lot of animations, if you want to move things around or have things  animate in a different order, the animation pane can help you with that. Along with using the  arrows to move the position of an animatio

n, you can also select the item right here in the  animation pane and then you can move it to the position where you want it. So here I've selected  the entrance animation and I can also press the shift key to select the exit animation. Here  I can select this entire group and I'll pull it down to the bottom. So here you'll see, as  I pull it, I could choose the exact position where I want to place it. I'll simply leave  that animation at the end. So once again, you could simply drag and drop or

you could use  the arrows over here. Now so far with all of our animations, it requires you to click before the  animation takes effect. So here, for example, I'll jump into presentation mode again. For this  shape to fly in or that fly in animation to occur, I have to click my mouse button and then you'll  see the animation takes place. And then I have to click again for the next animation to take place.  I can change that, so it's not just based on click. So here if I come over to my second s

hape,  right now here I'll select the intro animation. And right up here, I see that it's currently  set to on click. If I also look down below at the animation pane, I see a mouse icon indicating  that it's currently triggered by my mouse click. Now let's say that I wanted to maybe animate with  the previous option, or maybe I wanted to animate after the previous option, I can set that. So here  I have the fly in animation for this oval. So, this is my third animation. If I go up to the top,  i

nstead of going on click, I could select this, and I can have it go with the previous one.  So, if I select this, when oval five flies out, oval seven will automatically fly in at the same  time. So, let's jump into presentation mode and let's see how this works. Here I'll click to bring  it in. And now when I click for it to fly out, you'll see that the next shape flies in at the  same time as the other one flying out. Over on the right-hand side, you'll see that these currently  are occurring

at the same time. So, I have the mouse click, and then you can see here on the  timeline that this action or this animation occurs right at the same time as the next animation.  Here I'll select oval seven, and once again, let's go up to this dropdown list, and instead  of going with previous, let's try after previous. When I select after previous, you'll see this  clock appear right here. This means that there's going to be a slight delay or it's going to occur  after the animation right up her

e. You'll also see on the timeline; you can see a visual of when the  animation is occurring. So here you'll see that the fly out animation will happen. And as soon as  that's done, then the fly in animation will start. Also, you'll see that these little icons on the  timeline. They're kind of small and hard to see. Right down here, I can click on seconds and I can  zoom in. So that way we can make it a little bit bigger and easier to see when these different  animations are occurring. Now that

I have oval seven starting after the previous one, once again,  let's jump into presentation mode. Here I'll click in and that flies in, and now we'll see it fly  out. And then as soon as it finishes flying out, the next one will fly in. Next, I want to look at  a few additional options you have for animations. So right up here on the top, let's say on the  fly out of oval five, when it's flying out. Right up here under timing, we can set the  duration of the fly out. And then right now it's set

to 0.5 seconds. So, it's a fairly quick  fly out. Now I could adjust this. Let's say I want it to take maybe let's say two seconds just to  make it really obvious that it's a little slower. When I enter two on here, you'll notice right  here in the timeline, it greatly expands how much time it's taking. So here, if I jump  into presentation mode, I have it fly in, and now you'll see the fly out is a lot slower.  So, I have full control over how long it takes for that object to come in or go out

. Now along with  setting the duration, I can also set a delay. So, this is the delay from when I have the animation  start to when it actually starts animating. So here, maybe I'll set this to let's go with two  seconds for delay. Here you'll see it pushed it back. So, I have this first animation and then  there's a delay before the second one starts. So once again, I'll jump into presentation mode.  Here we have it fly in. Now I'll click on my mouse and you'll see that it hesitates before then

  animates out. So those are two additional tools that I have to animate different objects. Now as  I've been doing this, you'll notice that it's been updating the timeline. So, here it added a gap for  the delay, and here if I go over, you can see how long the duration of this animation is. I'm going  to zoom out just a little bit so we can see all of the different animations. Now I could also click  on the timeline and I can drag the item here. So here maybe I just want the delay to be one  se

cond. I can drag it to the one second position. Here you see as I'm dragging it, I get a little  tool tip that tells me what the delay is. So here I see that right here it'd be 0.3 seconds and  here I could bring it back down to zero seconds. Also not only can I adjust the delay by dragging  and dropping this object on the timeline, I could also click on the ends over here to adjust  the total duration. So here I'll click on the end and here I can bring it right back down to  let's say one secon

d for this animation. So this is another way that I can simply just  use my mouse to change the duration and also the delay. Now that we've played around a little bit  with the animation pane, I want to show you how we can add additional animations to a shape. So right  over here, let's say that I want it to grow in between the fly in and the fly out. Now, remember  that if I go up here right now, I see that there are multiple animations assigned to this object.  If I go over here and let's say

I select grow and shrink, here I selected that, and once again, when  you just select from up here, it'll overwrite any animations that you already have in place. So  remember once you've already set animations, you don't want to use this section anymore. I'm  going to undo that with control Z. Instead, let's select this shape, and then once again, let's go  up to add animation and over here, I'll select grow and shrink. So here now that added the grow  and shrink animation to the animation pane

, but here you notice it's at the very bottom and I want  it to fly in, grow and shrink and then fly out. So here I'll select this new animation that I added,  and I'll simply pull it up in the list and I'll put it in between. So right now, if I jump into  presentation mode, here it flies in, it'll grow, and then I'll click it again and it flies out. So  that's an easy way to add additional animations, and this way you can grow out your animation  sequence. Within the animation pane, we can also

access a lot of different advanced options. Here  when I go over into the animation pane and let's say I click on one of these items. Over on the  right-hand side, you'll see this little dropdown icon. Let's click on that. Right here, this  exposes some additional options. For example, once again, just like we did above, you can set whether  it starts on click, with previous, or after previous. So this is another way to access those  same controls. But down here now we have some additional opti

ons. You have effect options, you  have timing, you could hide the advanced timeline, so you won't see the timeline behind here, or you  could simply remove the animation altogether. Now the two that I want to look at, let's jump into  effect options and also timing, and let's start with timing. When I click on timing, over here  on the left-hand side, once again, you can see that it currently is set to start on click.  So once again, this is another way to access when this animation starts. Rig

ht down here, I  could also see the delay. We were able to set the delay up here as well, and here we could set the  duration. But there is one additional new option that we can't access on the ribbon, and that's  called repeat. So here I can choose to repeat my animation. So maybe I'll just say until the  next click. So, it'll just keep animating again and again. There's also the option to rewind when  done playing. So let's say you have a motion path, and maybe it goes from one side to the oth

er. Once  the animation is done, you can have it reset. So, you also have that option. And once again, we have  different triggers that we can set. I'm going to leave this as is for now, and let's simply go with  the repeat option. I'll click on okay, and let's now play the slide. So here it comes in, and now  I kick off the grow animation. And here you'll see that it just animates again and again. So this can  be a neat way to bring different effects into your slide. Let's say you want to have

a pulsing light  or something else. You can use this repeat effect to just keep it playing on your slide. Over on  the animation pane right here on the timeline, you'll see that it also updated the visual to  reflect that it's now repeating. If I want to turn off the repeat animation, I can turn it  off the same way. I'll click on the dropdown, go back over to timing, and here I'll turn it, so  it doesn't repeat at all. Then I'll click on okay. Next, I want to show you some of the advanced  effe

cts that we can access. So here again, I'll click on this first shape, and I'll click  on the fly in animation. And over here, here too, I also have that dropdown. When I click in this,  we see effect options. Let's click into this. This opens up a prompt with all of my effect options.  And here too, I could also set the direction that it flies in from. So that was available here,  and this is just another way to access those same controls. But now I have some additional options.  I can set whet

her there is a smooth start, a smooth end, or a bounce end. And I could even  set sounds to go along with this animation. And even after the animation, you can have it dim or  you can even adjust the colors. So, there's quite a bit that you can do here. Now why don't we test  out one of these and maybe I'll set a smooth end and I'll set it to 0.5 seconds just so it really  stands out. Also, maybe we'll play a sound to go along with this. So, I have a bunch of different  options. In fact, if you

want to set a custom sound, you can even select other sound down here  and you can select a sound from your computer. Now let's go with this whoosh as the oval flies  into the screen. Next let's click on okay. Next let's jump into presentation mode to see how  this looks. So here now you see that it slowly eases in and you also heard a sound go along with  it. As you start building out your animations, you might decide that, well, maybe you don't like  one of these animations. So here I have it

fly in, I have it grow, and then I have it fly out. But  let's say I don't want it to grow in between. Here I could select that animation on my animation  pane and then I could hit the delete key. And that'll remove that animation. Once I start  adding a whole bunch of different animations, you might have a very complex set of animations  on your slide. And maybe you want to preview your animations, but you don't want to always  have to preview from the beginning. Right here I can select an item

in my animation pane and  then I see this button that says play from. So here if I click on this, it'll simply fly in  and fly out for oval seven and it won't show me the animation for oval five. So far we've been  looking at all of the fundamentals of how you can animate objects, but what about text and are  there any differences? Let's add another slide in your presentation and let's go up to insert  and then let's insert some text. I'll click on text box right here. I've inserted some text o

n my  slide and this is a bulleted list. And let's say maybe I'll move cookie and I'll make that a second  level bullet. So right now I have some text on the slide and I'll expand the size a little bit as  well, just so it's a little bit easier to see. Now I can also apply animations to text. Here  I'll select this object or the text object and I'll go to animations on top. When I click over  here on animations, within the emphasis category, you'll see that some of these animations have  a lette

r in it. These are text only animations. If I go back to the first slide and I click  on animations, here you'll see that they're all grayed out because this is an object, it's  not text. So, I can apply specific animations, just the text. So here I could do a wave, a bold  reveal, and there are different animations I can apply. Now let's say I want my text to let's say  fade in. Here I'll click on the fade animation and here you see that it all fades in together.  Now frequently when you're say

presenting a PowerPoint presentation, you might have a  whole bunch of bullet points and you want them to animate in separately. Or maybe you want  your top level bullet to come in and then you want your second level bullet to come in. We  can adjust that. To adjust this, I can go up to the top ribbon and here under effect options,  I can change it so it animates in by paragraph. So here I'll throw it into presentation mode and  we see the first paragraph comes in with its sub bullets and then

the last one comes in. So that's  exactly how I want it to look. But let's say that maybe I want cookie to come in on its own as well.  Now once again, we can go to the animation pane and here you see that it's coming in with  the previous. Now I could right click on this and I can have it come in on click. So now  in presentation mode, the first bullet comes in, then the second and then the third. So, each one  now comes in separately. Now it's a little bit of a pain if you add the animation an

d let's say you  want all sub bullets coming in on their own. It's a pain to come into the animation pane and then  bring each one in on click. You can also change it in bulk. Right up here by effect options, there's  this icon right here, which will show additional effect options. When I click on this, this opens  that same prompt that we saw before. So PowerPoint offers a bunch of different ways to access this.  You can come over here and here you can click into effect options or right here on

the ribbon,  you could also access your effect options. In the effect options over on text animation, right  here we can see how this animation is working and right now it's set to animate by the first level  paragraphs. So first level is basically the first bullet point. If I wanted to in bulk animate all  of the different sub paragraphs as well, here I could go to second level, third level, all the way  down to the fifth level. So here if I choose by second level animation, I'll select that a

nd then  click on okay. And here now you'll see that it's automatically done on click for all the different  options. With text as well, there are some other options. If we go up here and we look at all  of the different effect options, you have other things like animating your text. Is it animated  all at once? Is it by word? Is it by letter? Also, over here in text animation, you can have  your sub bullets come in after a certain amount of time, or you could even have them run in reverse  orde

r. So, you have a ton of power when it comes to animating different objects. So far, we've been  looking at all of the different fundamental tools that you have available to you to pull together  some pretty incredible animations. And next, I want to bring this all together and let's pull  together our very own cool animation. Over on the side, let's click in and add another slide. Once  you add your new slide, let's go to the ribbon and click on insert. And I'm going to click on  pictures and I

'll go to stock images. If you don't have access to stock images, maybe you have an  older version of PowerPoint, you can also find a picture of a mountain. Here I'll type in mountain  and here it pulls up a ton of different photos. And I'm going to use this photo of a mountain and  then insert it into my slide. So I have a photo of a mountain, I also want to adjust it so it uses up  the full dimensions of the slide. Here I'll simply pull it up and then I'll crop off the top. Once  I set the dim

ensions of my picture to match the slide, I'm going to click on this photo, I'll copy  and then I'll paste it. So now I have two copies of this photo and they align exactly. Next I want  to remove the background from the top layer photo. To do that, I'll click on the photo and right here  on the ribbon, I have picture format. When I click on this, all the way over on the left-hand side,  I can remove the background. I'll click on that. Here now I see my photo and all of the magenta  area will au

tomatically be removed and the part that's not magenta will be kept. Now I want to  keep the mountains on the bottom, but I want to remove the sky. So right here, I'll click on this  mark areas to remove and then I'll highlight the sky. So now the entire sky is magenta, but I  still have magenta down here in the mountains. So I'll click on this mark areas to keep and  then I'll highlight the mountains over here. So I still have a few more areas to highlight  and I'll go through and keep highligh

ting these mountains until it keeps this entire area. So  now I have the sky that's going to be removed and I have all of the mountains. This all looks  pretty good. So I'll click on keep changes. As a little tip, if you ever need to remove the  background from a photo, this is a very easy way to do that. Next, let's click on keep changes. Now  we're back on the slide, but it looks identical to where we left off from. So, what changed? Well,  remember that I have two photos here. There is one ph

oto with the sky, which I've removed, and then  my original photo that still has the sky. That's still there as the background. So, we're going  to use this to create layers and we'll use this as part of a pretty advanced and cool animation.  Next, I want to insert a photo of the moon. So once again, let's go over to insert, click on  pictures, and then I'll go to online pictures. This opens up a prompt where I could search for  pictures. I'll type in moon transparent. By typing in transparent,

this will ensure that there's  no background there. Here I'll select this first image of the moon. I think that looks pretty good.  Then I'll click on insert. This is now inserted a photo of the moon and it's a little big right now.  So, I'll click on the moon and let's reduce the size, so it looks a little bit more reasonable.  I'll place it over here and right now it's in front of the mountain and we'll leave it there for  now, but coming up later, we'll adjust the layers of this. Now I want t

o apply an animation to this  moon. So, I'm going to go up to my animations over here and let's click on this dropdown.  Right here there's a category for motion paths and I want it to lift up and then turn over the  sky. So, I'll go with this one that says turns. When I select that, you see that by default,  it goes to the right and then it turns down. I want it to turn up. So, let's go over here under  effect options, just like we looked at earlier, and there's an option to go up and to  the r

ight. So, I'll select this option. Now from the preview, you saw that the moon goes  up and it moves to the right, but then it stops right here. So, it doesn't go up that far. Now  I can click over here on the path and here I see the size of the path and I see the end position.  I'm going to adjust this and let me expand this out. Here you'll see as I'm expanding it out, the  motion path is also expanding. So, I want the moon to stop right about here in the sky. So here I see  the full path and

I'll click away. If I click on preview now, I can see the moon lift and then go  over. From the preview, the moon is lifting up and going over fairly fast and I want it to go a  little bit slower. Now once again, we could adjust the duration. Over here in the animation pane, I  could select this and then I could drag it over, so it goes on a little bit longer. Alternatively,  I could also click up here and maybe I want it to go on for about five seconds. Now if I click  on this play icon, you'll

notice the moon lifts up in the sky and it moves a little bit  slower. So, I think that looks pretty good. Next I want this mountain range right here. So  the topmost layer, I want this to also bulge out or come out. I think that'll be a neat effect.  With the mountain selected, I'll go up here to my animations and over here, let's say maybe we go  with the grow and shrink. So I'll select this one and we see the mountain come out a little bit. And  what's neat is you also have these other mount

ains slightly in the background. So it adds a little  bit of depth. Now I have these two animations set, but I want to move the moon behind this mountain  range in front. So here I'll select the moon, right click, and then I'll go to this option  that says send to back, but I don't want to send it all the way back. So, I'll simply send it  backward. So right now it's sitting behind this first mountain and here I could pull it down and  there you see it sitting right there. I want both of these a

nimations to occur at the same time. So  over in the animation pane for the mountain range, I'm going to right click on this and I'll have  it start with the previous one. So here they'll both go on at the same time. Now you'll see that  the moon animation and the mountain animation, they don't last as long. So, I want the duration  to be the same. I'll select this and then I'll set it to five seconds. So this way both animations  occur over the same time period. This animation is starting to co

me together pretty nicely, but  before we play the final animation, I do want to add a little bit more depth to this animation.  I want the mountains that are in back to sit a little bit above these other mountains just to  add that depth. To do that up on the top ribbon, let's click on home and then go over and click  on select. We're going to launch the selection pane. I'll click on that. Here you'll notice on  the right-hand side, I can toggle back and forth between the animation pane and the

selection pane.  Now my bottommost layer is sitting right down here. It's picture two. Here I can show, and I  can hide it. So, this is my mountain with the sky. I'm going to select picture two by clicking on  it in the selection pane. Then I'm going to hit my keyboard up arrow just to pull it a little  bit higher, just so it's not sitting at the exact same point as the other mountain, which is  sitting on top. So, here's my previous mountain. So right now, picture three is the topmost  mountai

n. If I hide that, you see the moon. And then right down here, I have my bottom most  layer. So, these are my three layers. So that all looks pretty good right now. I'm now all set to  play my animation. So, let's click on presentation mode. And here, if we click on play now, you'll  see the mountain come out. You see the moon go up and you see a little bit of depth with this other  image in back. So with PowerPoint animations, you can pull off some pretty incredible effects.  Now we've been loo

king at all of the fundamental tools to animate in PowerPoint, but PowerPoint  offers even more. It's such a rich program and there's so much functionality. Once again, over  on the left-hand side, let's insert another slide. And I want to show you how you can use the morph  transition to also add animations to your deck. Let's go up to the top ribbon and click on insert.  Once again, let's go over to shapes and this time let's insert a rectangle. I'm going to draw a  rectangle right here in the

top left-hand corner. Now let's go down and take slide five. I'm going  to copy it and paste it. So you should now have an identical slide. So, you have two identical  slides. On the second slide of the two identical ones, take the shape that you inserted and  move it to a new position. And you can even try adjusting the size. So here I'll make it a  little bit bigger and maybe a little bit longer. Now with the last or the second slide selected,  let's go to transitions and then click on morph.

Right here, you'll see it animate or morph from  one shape to the other. So here I'll click on the presentation mode, and when I play it here,  you'll see it go from that rectangle to another size rectangle in another position. So this is one  more way you can add animations to your slides. Now I also want to show you how you can pull off  an advanced morph. So say you want to take this rectangle and you want to morph it into, let's say  an oval. Right here, I'll delete this shape for now and l

et's go up to insert. I'll go to shapes  and let's insert in an oval. So here I'll just draw it in the bottom right-hand corner. And I  want this shape to morph into the other one. So, I still have the morph transition. The  trouble is when I hit to the next slide, it simply fades out and then this one fades in.  I want this shape to morph into this shape. So we need to make sure that the names of these shapes  are identical. Here I'll click on this shape and I still have my selection pane open.

But if you  don't have it open anymore, you could click on home and then click over on select and selection  pane. And here, this is referred to as rectangle one. So I'll just leave that name for now. To  pull off an advanced morph, we have to insert two exclamation marks at the beginning. So I'll  put two in front of this and let me actually just highlight this entire name, copy it. And then I'll  go to the next slide, click on this shape and here I'll double click in and I'll paste it in. So

now  they have the exact same name. So if I go back to slide five, I'll jump in the presentation mode  and now look at that animation. It morphs from one shape into the other. So this is another  way that you can add some very impressive animations to your slide presentation. Lastly,  I also want to show you how you can animate 3D objects in your presentation. And this is the  last bit in terms of animations in PowerPoint. Once again, let's go over to the left and add  another slide. Up here, I'

ll click on insert and let's go over and click on 3D models. Now you  could build your own 3D model and I recently did a tutorial of how you could use Paint 3D. If you  follow that, you can build your own models and you can then bring them into Microsoft PowerPoint.  I've also included a link to that video in the description of this one. For now, just to keep  things simple, I'll go with one of the stock 3D models. This opens up online 3D models and  right here at the top, you'll see that there

are all of these animated models. So here I can view  all the animated models or you could just look at animals or education. Let's click on all animated  models to see what's available. So, look at this, there are a whole bunch of different models that  we can choose from. And why don't I go in and also like this drone right here and then insert it.  I've now inserted the drone onto my slide and it's a little bit small right now, so I'll expand  it just so we can see it a little bit better. So

there's my drone in the center of the slide.  Now right now it's on 3D model on the ribbon, but here I can go over to animations and if I expand  all the different animations, here you'll see that there are some specific animations for 3D objects.  So I could have it arrive, I could have it leave, and there are also some other animations that I  could apply. Let me go with this jump and turn and let's test this one out. So, check that  out. I'm now animating a 3D object here. Also over on the ri

ght-hand side, I have some effect  options. So here I could decide what direction I want it to go in. Also, the intensity and  the rotation access. So, I have a lot of similar effect options to what I had for the other  animations. If I throw it into presentation mode, here if I click on it now, you'll see this cool  animation to this 3D object. Next, I want to show you how you can also use a morph with a 3D object  to add an additional animation. I'll add another slide in my presentation. Let's

go back up to 3D  models and I'll go to the stock 3D model option. Right here, let's select vintage cartoon. Within  vintage cartoon, I'll select the car and then click on insert. This is now inserted the car  onto my slide, and I'll adjust it a little bit so we have a side view of the car. Next I'm going to  take this slide, I'll copy it and paste it again. And this time let's use the morph transition  again. Right here, I'll go up to transitions and then let's click on morph. And over here wi

th the  car, I'm going to adjust the position. So maybe now we want to switch to a top-down view and I'll  also expand the car just a little bit so we could see it better. Let's go back to the previous  slide and I'll click into presentation mode. Here now I can see the car in presentation  mode and when I click to the next slide, look at that awesome animation going from the side  to the top down view. So this is yet one more way that you can animate your slides in PowerPoint. So  with all of t

hese tools now, you should be able to go off and create some very impressive animations.  All right, well, that was an overview of how you can animate in PowerPoint. If you now know how to  create animations, please give this video a thumbs up. To see more videos like this in the future,  make sure to hit that subscribe button. Also, if you want to see me cover any other topics on this  channel, leave a note down below. All right, well, that's all I had for you today. I hope you enjoyed  and as

always, I hope to see you next time. Bye.