Posts Tagged ‘Animations’

New Animations for PowerPoint

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

We’ve recently been taking some of our most popular 3D figures for PowerPoint and converting them into PowerPoint animations.  The animations below are set on infinite loop, but with our new loop feature in the Animation Customizer you can change the number of time an animation loops before it stops.

Animated 3D Stick figure with red target

Stick Figure Animation for PowerPoint

Animated 3D person reading a book

Stick Figure reading a book

These new animations are animated .GIF files but they can also be downloaded as Flash (.SWF).  They can be downloaded with a white background or with a transparent or clear background.  Also you can customize the background color of the animation using the customizer.  Customizing the color allows you to seamlessly match the animation to your presentation background.

Animated Businessman winning a race

A businessman finishes the race first in this animated clip art

Animated figure breaking through wall with hammer

Animated 3D figure uses a sledge hammer to break through a brick wall

These PowerPoint animations were created by Judd Albrecht and Josh Doohen, co-owners and artists here at PresenterMedia.  As we are the artists that create all the content on PresenterMedia, please feel free to let us know what you’d like to see on the site.  In most cases we are happy to create your suggestions and add them to the site for all our subscribers to benefit from.

View all our animations for PowerPoint here.

Set the number of loops of an animation

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Adding an animated .GIF to a PowerPoint presentation can be an easy way to call attention to a point or to add a bit of life to a slide.  But animated .GIFs should be used with caution.  Nobody wants to view a slide with to many distractions.

Typically an animated GIF is set to loop over and over again forever and ever.  After a while this can get distracting for your audience if you spend any amount of time on a slide.  Wouldn’t it be great if the animation would just stop after a few moments?

With this in mind, we’ve added an new feature to our custom animation (GIF) creator in our animations section.  You can now set the number of times our animations loop before they stop.

Control the number of loops in an animated gif

Control the number of loops in an animated .GIF

By clicking the Number of Loops area in the customizer, you can set the animation to loop one to six times or choose to let if repeat indefinitely.

I particularly like choosing one or two loops for animations in my presentations as this give just enough time to spark the slide without becoming a distraction to my message.

For now, the set number of loops only works with .GIF images created with our customizer.

Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Medical Clipart and Templates for PowerPoint

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Recently Judd, Josh and I have been working to increased the number of health care and medical graphics and templates available to download from PresenterMedia.  Here are a few samples of the newest images we have available.

Stethoscope Clipart

Image: Doctor's Stethoscope forms a heart

The medical field is so diverse with so many different specialties, there are endless topics and image ideas.  We’ve only just scraped the surface and if there is a certain specialty you would like to see featured, please let us know as we love to help our subscribers out with their image needs.

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Download the Medical PowerPoint template here.

Earth with dust mask

Image: The Earth wears a dust mask to block germs

You can view our growing collection of health care graphics here.

3D Valentines Day Clipart and animations

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Last week we began adding new Valentines Day clipart, animations and templates to our library. Over the next couple of weeks we will continue to add more new images. We’ve been trying to create a variety of different styles and looks.  If there is anything specific you would like to see for this Valentines Day, please feel free to let us know.  We do our best to fill the requests and suggestions that our subscribers make.

Here are a few samples of the new Valentines Day images we now have available.

Valentines Day Hearts

Image: Stylized Valentines Day Hearts

We also are making several Valentines Day animations:

Valentines Day Hearts Animation

Animation: Valentines Day Hearts Gift Box

Valentine Heart made of animated gears

Animation: Valentine Heart made of Gears

New ATV and Snowmobile Animations

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

On Christmas Eve much of the mid-west was hit by a huge blizzard.  Here in South Dakota we had over 19 inches of snow dumped on us over the next two days.  The street in front of my house turned into a track for snowmobiles.  After we received a request from a kind lady from Illinois for snowmobile and ATV animations, we knew this was the perfect request for a cold day in January.

Animated Snowmobile

Image: Animated Snowmobile

We are happy to introduce a new series of animations based on ATVs and snowmobiles.  These animations were created by our co-owner, Judd Albrecht.  They work great in PowerPoint, but you could also use them on a website, blog, or in your email.

Animated ATV recreational vehicle

Image: Animated ATV recreational vehicle

Enjoy and keep the requests coming.  We do our best to try to fulfill every request we receive.