Basic Animation Types

Quick reference

• 00:03 In this video, we're going to look at animation types and how to add one or
• 00:07 more of those animation types to objects on a slide.
• 00:10 It's one of a number of animations videos that covers good animation and various
• 00:15 settings that include the animation pane and timeline and motion paths.
• 00:20 So let's start animating the objects on the slide.
• 00:23 We click on the Animations tab with the ribbon and
• 00:25 the Animation pane button that brings up the Animation pane.
• 00:28 Now I've already typed text into each of these shapes and
• 00:31 that will show the kind of animations that we're going to add.
• 00:34 With the object selected, notice how the various animation buttons and
• 00:37 the gallery becomes available on the ribbon.
• 00:41 So to add an interest animation to the shape we first click
• 00:44 the Add Animation menu button, which opens the Add Animation gallery.
• 00:50 Now notice immediately there are four types of animation groups,
• 00:53 Entrance, Emphasis, Exit and Motion Paths.
• 00:58 Motion Path animations are the subject of an entire other module.
• 01:02 And you can scroll down with your mouse if any of the animation groups are hidden.
• 01:06 And further down in the gallery area you have the option to select
• 01:09 more of any of the animation types.
• 01:12 By clicking the respective animations menu item.
• 01:16 When I click on the menu item, we get the Add Entrance Effect dialog box.
• 01:20 Notice that the animations in this case are grouped into categories of Basic,
• 01:24 Subtle, Moderate and Exciting.
• 01:28 Select any one of those and click OK to apply it or
• 01:31 you could click Cancel and go out of that dialog box.
• 01:36 So let's start animating these shapes.
• 01:39 To the first shape, we add an entrance animation of Fade.
• 01:44 Now notice that the animation automatically previews.
• 01:46 In the Preview Group of the ribbon over here, we can preview the animation,
• 01:51 as well as check or uncheck the Auto Preview option.
• 01:55 It's useful to be able to preview the animations that you add.
• 01:58 But you might wanna turn that off if you're adding lots of animation effects.
• 02:02 Because previewing multiple effects interferes with
• 02:05 the work that you're doing.
• 02:07 So back to the entrance animation that we added.
• 02:10 Entrance introduces an object within a slide.
• 02:14 In the theater sense, it's a bit like an act of walking onto the stage for
• 02:17 the first time.
• 02:19 The actor can come in various ways and locations and
• 02:22 the same with our entrance animations.
• 02:25 So we go through the same process to add an emphasis animation.
• 02:29 In this case, we click on the Pulse button, so
• 02:32 emphasis is applied to that object on the slide.
• 02:37 It's a bit like an actor waving his or her arms around for
• 02:40 attention in our theater simile.
• 02:42 We can also add an exit animation of shape.
• 02:47 So exits are used to animate an object off the slide.
• 02:50 A bit like the actor leaving the stage and
• 02:54 also add a motion path of a turn and a motion path is added to that shape.
• 03:00 Motion paths cause movement along the set path and that could be a circle,
• 03:04 a line or a custom direction.
• 03:07 A bit like our act of moving around the stage in different locations.
• 03:12 Now we've added different animation types to each object.
• 03:14 However, if we wanted to add one and the same animation to every object.
• 03:19 We could select all of them and apply that animation in one go,
• 03:22 that's a fast way of animating multiple objects.
• 03:27 Notice this Effects Option menu button.
• 03:30 When I click on the shape that has an exit animation applied to it,
• 03:33 we get direction, the shape type of that effect.
• 03:37 As well as options to animate text relative to the shape and
• 03:41 that's something you can explore yourself later.
• 03:44 So let's look at this shape which has the text Multiple added into it.
• 03:49 We're going to add four animation types,
• 03:52 but we must make sure that we add the exit animation last.
• 03:56 Or the shape will disappear before we wanted to do that.
• 04:00 So I click on the shape, the Add Animation split button,
• 04:04 the entrance of Fade, emphasis of Pulse.
• 04:11 Motion path of a line and an exit animation of a Fade and there we are.
• 04:19 We can see in the Animation pane in here,
• 04:21 all of those four items are added to that shape.
• 04:25 I place the unload this presentation and have a look at how that was actually done.
• 04:29 Finally, please note a couple of things.
• 04:31 Firstly, each animation fires either when I press enter on the keyboard or
• 04:36 click my mouse which is called on-click.
• 04:40 And that's the subject of other videos.
• 04:42 Secondly, notice this Animation gallery.
• 04:45 It's a very quick way to apply single animation to a shape or
• 04:48 any object selected on the slide.
• 04:50 Remember, even though we have just shown how to animate shapes.
• 04:53 And of course, you can animate text and charts and
• 04:55 just about anything else on the slide.
• 04:58 But note this gallery is for adding a single animation.
• 05:01 If you've got an object already animated and you click one of these icons,
• 05:05 it will change the animation.
• 05:06 If you wanna make a single change, that's fine.
• 05:09 But if you have multiple animations applied to the object
• 05:13 such as this shape titled Multiple.
• 05:15 It will remove all of that sequence of animation and
• 05:18 replace it with the single animation that you selected.
• 05:22 So again, there are other videos that cover animation.
• 05:25 And the file used in this module is available for download and
• 05:28 you can explore the animations applied to this slide.

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