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August 4, 2013 How to Rotate 3D Objects: Advanced PowerPoint Animation Tutorial

This is a tutorial for how to animate 3D shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint. You can use this with a variety of different shapes — from drawing objects to photos, etc. Basically, the idea is to create layers like a flipbook, with each one rotated slightly in order to create the illusion of rotation. Lots of room for creativity – would love to see what you come up with!

Media (from MS Office clipart site):

Music: “Providence
Pics: “Chrysanthemum,” “Chinese zodiac horoscope animal, the sheep”

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August 4, 2013 PowerPoint Animation Tutorial – Reveal Effect with Moving Background

This PowerPoint tutorial shows how to make a criss-cross reveal effect, then have the sky (or any background) move behind it.

It also shows how to remove backgrounds of virtually anything — even in earlier versions of PPT — both in a sophisticated and in a fairly caveman way.

You can recreate everything I did – all media was found on MS Office Website (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/) with the following file names:

Tower picture: “Skyscraper in Frankfurt”
Sky picture: “MP900401516”
Opening music — “Latte and Scone” (ms910218980)
Window picture: “MP900314138”
Porthole picture: “MC900024623”
Diver animation: “Diver swimming along side tropical fish”
Closing music: “Caribbean Dance 1”

Good luck!

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August 4, 2013 How to Make Photo Mosaics in PowerPoint

Create amazing photo mosaics using only PowerPoint! Find your base picture and your tile pictures and you are ready to go. You can use this trick to make mosaics of your family, friends, teams, employees, students, vacations, and any collections you choose.

All photos taken from Microsoft Office website –

Base Image: Traditional Mexican Female Model (I gave this a watercolor effect in PPT)
Music: Midnight Breeze

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August 3, 2013 How to Make Kinetic Typography Effects – Advanced Powerpoint Animation Tutorial

This is a PowerPoint animation tutorial focusing on kinetic typography effects. Many different tricks are shown.  This is definitely a more advanced level tutorial.

Due to the YouTube time limit, I had to speed talk my way through the last section to fit everything in. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for watching!

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August 3, 2013 PowerPoint Animation Tutorial – How to Make a Night City with Lights

This was my very first video tutorial.  This is for an advanced PowerPoint animation trick that shows a city at night with moving cars and blinking lights.   It was done in PPT 2010 but can be done in other versions as well, since the effects used are not very complicated.

You can also use this technique a variety of other ways — Christmas lights, fireflies, stars in the sky, electric signs, etc.  I would love to see your ideas as well!

All media was taken from Microsoft Clip Art site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/

Picture: “Buenos Aires City at Night” Music:   “Spicy Salsa”

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