Webinar: Using animation in PowerPoint (without being dorky)

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Animations can help drive a point home in PowerPoint, but if you're not careful, they also can seem so silly your audience will feel like 6-year-olds. In this week's webinar, learn how to use animations and do it smartly.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

Three steps for creating animationsBest times to use animation (Hint: not on every slide)The Animation Pane takes pain awaySome favorite effects

References for this webinar

Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series live every Tuesday. You can add the webinar series to your calendar.

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Bewertung: Passen Sie Ihre Windows-8-Startbildschirm mit Start Bildschirm Animation Tweaker

There are many products that restore promise, in the start menu on Windows 8, but there are not so many that you customize the tiles, that have replaced them. You animations Tweaker can give the animations on the NET Windows 8 on a bit more zip boot screen. This nice little free portable piece software can dictate the speed of the animations and wallpaper have it exactly how you want it.

The portable free animations Tweaker start screen is a nice little tool that adds the Windows 8 animations in the starting lineup in the menu a little liveliness.

It may seem like a small insignificant thing to reach, but if you are looking for the grid and use it, so going any faster will matter throughout the day. It makes the screen to load faster, which programs open faster. It can only win some seconds amount but add this seconds in the course of a day or a week, and you begin to see why this app beneficial can be. And it's also quite entertaining, press the WIN key and watch the tiles that fly across the screen.

It is less entertaining, File Explorer crashes after repeated victory press of buttons. The developers claimed that this is no fault of the software, but a bug of Windows 8.

Because it is a portable application, no installation is required. Unpack you the contents of the downloaded zip file in a separate folder. It is worth noting that the download link on the site is a bit camouflaged. The grey button "download" sits next to a green "download"-button.  The grey is one click.  The Green is a Google AdSense ad. It is unclear whether this is an honest mistake from the developer or a sneaky manner some to make money AdSense. But you should be careful and click the right button: gray, not green.

It is possible that slow scrolling background image. This is called the parallax effect. This setting can either speed up or slow down.

You have the unzipped portable program in a new folder, open it and you will see four controller: two for user name and image animation and two for tile animation.  The four controllers to determine how fast or slow these elements want to go, when to enable you the grid start menu.  The developer provides recommended settings, and that was good enough for me. If you, but want to easily play around with the controls and see what you prefer. If you don't like it, click on "reset to defaults" and what you just will be reversed. So nothing is permanent and everything can be put back the way it was. So don't you break something don't worry.

The other feature is the "parallax effect". To the point, does this either accelerated or slowed the scrolling effect of the grid menu background image. Usually if you have tiles that go off the screen, you must perform a scrolling to get to them. In this case, you can determine that the wallpaper is a bit faster than the tile moves. Lets start screen animations Tweaker, you is now slowly- or it to speed up, if you want even more.

Simply click "Tune the parallax effect" and move the slider back and forth (and again, there is a reset button that you can use if necessary).  If you try both ends of the slider, you see what I speak scrolling with the speed of the wallpaper. It's one of those things, you should you do yourself, to understand what I mean.

As I said, little tweaks like this may seem just like the games and not really "useful". But the speed with which apps can be opened is completely dependent on how quickly certain elements of the PC respond.  If the grid menu to open, that influence lasts, how long it will take to open a program then.  It's worth give start screen animations Tweaker go and see whether you your Windows 8-grid menu to go, which can optimize something faster and more smoothly.

Note: The download button on the product information page takes you to the manufacturers website where you can download the latest version of the software.

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Lights! Music! Animation! A holiday e-card from a pro

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WARNING: This year's holiday e-card Microsoft MVP Sandra Johnson is mesmerizing. You will not be able to multitask, so take a break, and download this animated, musical card or watch it right here:

Here's another e-card from Sandra that you can customize before sharing it with your friends and family:

Check out her Presentation Wiz website! You can find other great examples of how she uses PowerPoint for businesses, including everything from conveying a company’s brand to recreating an automobile accident for a court case. She also offers free PowerPoint tutorials!

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HTML5 animation session tomorrow

The Adobe Edge Animate team is doing a live presentation/Q&A tomorrow, Tuesday the 4th, at noon Pacific:

Join our Ask a Pro next Tuesday to get an up close and personal look at what’s new in Preview 7. Our fearless Product Manager Sarah Hunt will cover new features like resizable layouts, enhancements to the timeline and stage, and much more. Sarah will also show you how to add interactivity to your compositions, as requested by our fans.

Register here.

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HTML Animation with requestAnimationFrame and Flash Professional CS6

HTML Animation with requestAnimationFrame and Flash Professional CS6 « Christian Cantrell function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} adobe.com      Christian Cantrell / HTML Animation with requestAnimationFrame and Flash Professional CS6by Christian Cantrell  

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Adobe HTML5 animation survey

The Edge team would like to hear your perspective on the relative importance of supporting older browsers, etc. If the subject is important to you, please fill out this quick survey. Thanks.

Posted by John Nack at 8:36 AM on February 19, 2012

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Video: Terry Gilliam on animation

“The whole point of animation, to me, is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea,” says a young Terry Gilliam. “The technique itself doesn’t really matter. Whatever works, is the thing to use.” Here’s 15 minutes with a master:

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After effects Animation Tutorial - Assistants and layers

Alongside the basics of animation that are easy to implement in After Effects, "wizards" are provided to help you the next step in the development of your animation. It is the ideal time to learn and begin to implement layers too.

The layers are just what they sound like and if you use other graphic products such as Photoshop or Fireworks, you'll be familiar with the concept of the layer. Layers allow you to place different objects in your scene, on their own "layer".

This gives you the freedom to treat differently, to give these different actors of their own personality. We believe that provide a background color or a parameter for your stage backdrops and mattes.The action of your animation may well involve the different actors.

Even a simple logo unfolding on stage may play with a waterfall or Sunrise, a motorcycle zoom in the center of the stage or instructor in your tutorial to address the audience. All of these "players" will be put on their own layer and each layer has its own definition, including what is perhaps the most fundamental, and this is where it appears on the timeline, where this object enters your animation.

Because we are mixing layers and assistants in this tutorial we are going back to wizards for a moment. We have learned about the wizard of motion sketch, in our last article how to register the movement and animation of your object by simply followed the path as you would on a piece of paper. This method is very easy to use, very easy to visualize, but it lacks a bit of finesse. This is where appear the two assistants: the "smoother" and "auto-orient".

The ' softness ', as it's name implies, adjusts the speed and distance of the keyframes that you created by tracing with motion sketch. " In the same way, it is virtually impossible to hold your camera still perfectly when you take a photo, it is almost impossible to draw a path without a bit of hand movement "gittery." Once you have designed and reviewed your sketch of query, choose the more smooth, under window > smoother. Select all your images position key simply by selecting the position under your animated objects property and click "apply" under the smoother options. That's all. You will see the number of keyframes reduced and your path will be "smoothed". If you increase the tolerance on the smoother, it will help further reduce the number of key frames. Like most settings in After Effects, the best way to determine what works best for you and this particular animation is to try some different parameters. Play with it a little bit and then run your movie and observe how this wizard refined your animation.

Another wizard who belongs to this lesson is the wizard rotation auto-orient. It is also a fairly intuitive tool. Imagine a bird or a plane, a cruise along a winding road car. Animate the motion would only seem comic if your car was not always directed along the path. Auto-Orient (choose layer > transform > Auto-Orient) offer an "Orient long path" option that will keep your object aligned on the front movement. Your car will be appear to be oriented along the path, it follows, as your bird or airplane.

These simple wizards help your refine your animation, save you time and help to create a control that would be very difficult to create manually by setting each keyframe yourself. Experience with animation assistants and you will appreciate their ease of use and simple contributions.

Next? We will learn more about layers!

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eSeminar now on demand: Rapid Animation Generation for Avatar Personalization in Adobe Captivate 5 Projects

April 21, 2011

Admittedly bizarre but tons of fun, this week’s eSeminar focused on saving money and still getting high quality images and animations for your eLearning modules by leveraging free animation software to create animations and even stage complex simulations. In a test of my rapidly aging laptop I held the session in Adobe Connect, did Captures with Adobe Captivate Full Motion Recording of Linden Labs Second Life and ran a browser for good measure.

Included below is the slide deck for the presentation, also available here via the link with the embedded text. As i mentioned during the session, the notes regarding the efficacy of personalization via avatar inclusion are on the downloadable slide deck here.

One of the more interesting considerations in this regard is what impact the avatar animation will have on learning. Studies related to this topic show that while the animation adds to the interest the learner may have in the content – the animation alone is not sufficient to lead to improved learning. So we have a couple of natural topics that emerge.

Perception: people will prefer the content with animation and slick graphics – if it is efficient and on topic.Learning: people will learn more when the animation is on topic. The theory behind this has to do with how we engage as conversationalists more than any other element.

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So should you do animation? When should you do animation. I recommend that you consider animation when you are working on creating engaging interactions that facilitate knowledge transfer by creating recognizable mimetic (story / scene) elements for the learner. If you are training workplace safety for an aquarium, having images of events happen in an aquarium will trigger better long term retention for the staff engaged in the training. Same is true for virtually any contextual information. Since most of the critical training we do is context-sensitive – the call for such images are frequent.

One limitation of stock photography and similar resources is that you often cannot find images that perfectly suit the context of the learning – and its conceivable that these limitations can decrease knowledge transfer. The eSeminar this week focused on using free animation / world creation software to build such context rapidly and at very low costs compared to other animation solutions. You’ll find the link to the seminar below.

LINK: Here is the LINK to the on demand version of the eSeminar.

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