Animation principle 3 (p. 2)

Staging

The “old men of animation” established the 12 principles of animation when working for the Disney studios. While not all of the principles are fully supported by Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (or 2007, or 2013), there is much that we can learn that will improve our presentations.

Real objects are real! That is, they have dimensions, are composed of matter and the real world can interact with them. For example, if you were to drop the tennis ball, the ball would fall, accelerating, hit the ground and bounce.

Staging is not only a very important animation principle, it is well supported within PowerPoint.

We can use this to our advantage.

Technique 2- animation focal points

The best way to explain animation focal point is with a movie.

On your slide, you first select the area of your slide where you want to focus the audience attention. You then build the graphic and animation effects around that point.

Lastly, you can combine multiple effects and principles, which I have through hidden pivots!