Make Animation or Movies with Microsoft PowerPoint

Flipbook cartoon animations are fun, aren't they? Don't you wish you could make them in Powerpoint? Or just make them smoother than before? This how-to can help you make movies, cartoons, and animations faster and better with Powerpoint.

Steps

  1. Open Powerpoint and create a new presentation. Make a blank slide and set the transition to advance after .1 seconds. Click Apply to all.
  2. Draw the first frame of your animation. this one is important - it is the frame that all of the other frames in this scene will be based on. Take your time with it.
  3. Duplicate the slide, and make a very slight change in this slide for the progress of the animation. If you had a ball falling, make it go down one or two places. (Note: Powerpoint doesn't use actual pixels, but a slightly larger placement system. Think of it as an invisible graph.)
  4. Do not duplicate the new slide and keep going. For things like gravity, make the motion stronger each time, eg, changing it more and more. The most catastrophic thing is to make things go too fast, so don't be afraid to take a lot of slides to do one thing - you can always delete them later.
  5. Preview your presentation constantly, changing anything you think needs to be changed. Erase unneeded slides and such, add or delete details until your presentation is perfect.
  6. Add in sounds and other details, then make a beginning and ending slide, maybe even an opening sequence.

Tips

  • If you're making something that moves different parts, make each part a different object. (ex: if you're making a person, draw all the limbs as different items so you can just copy/paste and rotate them or move them accordingly)
  • If you want to have voices, use the Narration feature or record them as sounds or music.
  • Inserting more and more slides will make your animation more realistic.
  • Get the pacing of the cartoon right. don't have slow scenes that suddenly turn into fast ones - this is confusing.
  • Save often.
  • If you want to have something done repeatedly, like bouncing a ball, make the action once, then copy all the slides that are for that action and paste them wherever you want. So, for the ball bouncing example, you would make it go down and up once, then copy the slides that show the ball bouncing, then paste the slides below so it would go 'down, up, down, up'.

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