Basic Animation Types

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this video were going to look at animation types and how to add one or more of those animation types to objects on a slide. It’s one of
• 00:10 a number of animations videos that covers good animation and various settings that include the animation pane and timeline and motion paths.
• 00:19 So let’s start animating the objects on the slide. We click on the animations tab of the ribbon and the animation pane button that brings up the
• 00:27 animation pane. Now I’ve already typed text into each of these shapes and that will show the kinds of animations that we’re going to add.
• 00:33 With the objects selected, notice how the various animation buttons and the gallery becomes available on the ribbon. So to add an
• 00:41 entrance animation to the shape we first click the add animation menu button, which opens the add animation gallery. Now notice
• 00:49 immediately, there are 4 types of animation groups: entrance, emphasis, exit, and motion paths. Motion path animations are the subject of
• 00:59 an entire other module. And you can scroll down with your mouse if any of the animation groups are hidden and further down in the gallery area
• 01:07 you have the option to select more of any of the animation types, by clicking the respective animations menu item. When I click on the
• 01:16 menu item we get the add entrance effect dialog box; notice that the animations in this case are grouped into categories of basic, subtle,
• 01:25 moderate, and exciting. Select any one of those and click ok to apply it, or you could click cancel and go out of that dialog box. So let’s
• 01:32 start animating these shapes. To the first shape we add an entrance animation of fade. Now, notice that the animation automatically
• 01:41 previews. In the preview group of the ribbon over here; we can preview the animation as well as check or uncheck the auto preview option. It’s
• 01:49 useful to be able to preview the animations that you add, but you might want to turn that off if you’re adding lots of animation effects because
• 01:56 previewing multiple effects interferes with the work that you’re doing. So back to the entrance animation that we added. Entrance introduces
• 02:04 an object within a slide. In the theatre sense, it’s a bit like an actor walking onto a stage for the first time. The actor can come in various ways
• 02:12 and locations and same with our entrance animations. So we go through the same process to add an emphasis animation. In this case we
• 02:21 click on the pulse button, so emphasis is applied to that object on the slide. It’s a bit like an actor waving his or her arms around for
• 02:31 attention in our theatre simile. We can also add an exit animation of shape, so exits are used to animate an object off the slide, bit like an actor
• 02:41 leaving the stage, and also add a motion path of a turn, and a motion path is added to that shape. Motions paths cause movement along a
• 02:50 set path and that could be a circle, a line, or a custom direction. A bit like our actor moving around the stage in different locations. So we’ve
• 03:01 added different animation types to each object, however, if we wanted to add one and the same animation to every object, we could select all of
• 03:11 them and apply that animation in one go. That’s a fast way of animating multiple objects. Notice this effects options menu button. When I click
• 03:20 on the shape that has an exit animation applied to it, we get direction, the shape type of that effect, as well as options to animate text relative
• 03:29 to the shape that you can explore yourself later. So let’s look at this shape which has the text, multiple entered into it. We’re going to add four
• 03:37 animations type, but we must make sure that we add the exit animation last or the shape will disappear before we want it to do that. So I click
• 03:46 on the shape, the add animation split button, the entrance of fade, emphasis of pulse, a motion path of a line, and an exit animation of a fade
• 04:01 and there we are; we can see in the animation pane here all of those four items are added to that shape. And please download this
• 04:10 presentation and have a look at how that was actually done. Finally, please note a couple of things. Firstly, each animation fires either when I
• 04:17 press ENTER on the keyboard or click my mouse, which is called on click, start, and that’s the subject of other videos. Secondly, notice this
• 04:25 animation gallery; it’s a very quick way to apply a single animation to a shape or any object selected on the slide. Remember, even though
• 04:33 we have just shown how to animate shapes, and of course you can animate text, and charts, and just about anything that you can put on a slide.
• 04:40 But note this gallery is for adding a single animation. If you have got an object already animated and you click one of these icons it will
• 04:48 change the animation. If you want to make a single change that’s fine, but if you have multiple animations applied to the object, such as this
• 04:56 shape titled multiple, it will remove all of that sequence of animations and replace it with the single animation that you selected. So again
• 05:03 there are other videos that cover animation and the file used in this module is available for download and you can explore the animations
• 05:10 applied to his slide.

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