I subscribe to Before and After Design (http://www.bamagazine.com/) and received an email today which included a link to a really elegant website (http://slaveryfootprint.org/). I really liked the effect created by scrolling down the page and thought that it would be of general interest. I challenge you to find a way to replicate the effect with PowerPoint.
That's a very interesting design. It reminds me of a Prezi presentation. It's kind of similar to the "White Sliding" template described in this forum post. I'm sure you could take the setup used in this template and create a similar design in power point with a little creativity.
Played around a bit, only had enough time for a few steps but it totally can be done. Using only motion and fade in/fade out animations, but the challenging part is alignment and timing. This should be brushed up more, but it's Friday, and I need to beat traffic. If you shy away from transitions, it can be published in Presenter. Will probably add the hotlinks to get from animation set to animation set when I have more time, but I think this give an idea....
I used to use a website all the time for design inspiration, but I forgot what it was. It was a resource for building websites using CSS and showed demo web layouts using CSS to build them.
Does anybody know what site this is? I know it is not a lot of information to go on..
aw shucks. Thanks! - currently working on a brushed up version ...going to put in the scissors thing and nudge a bit.
some things I learned...
Use the view grid option - helps much with alignment when you start moving objects with several animations.
As always, name the objects in the selection pane, I have named them numerically to keep an idea of when they appear on the screen.
Animation Painter doesn't....work quite right IMHO, but I doubt the MS programmers thought this type of stuff would be attempted. It doesn't seem you can select individual animations nor ALL the animations on an object to copy/paste.
http://www.tokiolab.it/#/ - this one I'm going to attempt to use soon in work - cheap/dirty work around for effect. (words fly in, copy and pasted group overlays, words disappear, group moves up --> if that makes any sense).
yes, the effects can be achieved in PowerPoint - albeit with a wee bit of frustration and potential lost functionality to Presenter (no transitions - only move and fade folks, move and fade.)
I should have known that someone in this magnificient community would enthusiastically take up the challenge. Congratulations Melissa and thanks for the additional links ... isn't it a great feeling to be inspired rather than overawed? This scrolling idea is obviously very popular and the variations thought provoking.
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Sam,
Thanks for sharing this! I LOVE it! What a challenge - I'll be thinking about it.
That's a very interesting design. It reminds me of a Prezi presentation. It's kind of similar to the "White Sliding" template described in this forum post. I'm sure you could take the setup used in this template and create a similar design in power point with a little creativity.
Played around a bit, only had enough time for a few steps but it totally can be done. Using only motion and fade in/fade out animations, but the challenging part is alignment and timing. This should be brushed up more, but it's Friday, and I need to beat traffic. If you shy away from transitions, it can be published in Presenter. Will probably add the hotlinks to get from animation set to animation set when I have more time, but I think this give an idea....
Love the effect! Thanks for sharing
Nice, Melissa!
Impressive, Melissa!
Awesome website - thanks Sam..
Heidi - which is your first favourite website???!!!
I used to use a website all the time for design inspiration, but I forgot what it was. It was a resource for building websites using CSS and showed demo web layouts using CSS to build them.
Does anybody know what site this is? I know it is not a lot of information to go on..
Thanks Google...found it!
http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/
Hi! I'm new to the community! Melissa that was awesome!
Thanks for sharing Sam (great website) and Melissa.
Really like the idea.
Love the wedbiste, and love that ppt representation Melissa! Good work!
/squee!
aw shucks. Thanks! - currently working on a brushed up version ...going to put in the scissors thing and nudge a bit.
some things I learned...
Use the view grid option - helps much with alignment when you start moving objects with several animations.
As always, name the objects in the selection pane, I have named them numerically to keep an idea of when they appear on the screen.
Animation Painter doesn't....work quite right IMHO, but I doubt the MS programmers thought this type of stuff would be attempted. It doesn't seem you can select individual animations nor ALL the animations on an object to copy/paste.
Other neat links....(head to these using Chrome)
http://www.head2heart.us/ (horizontal)
http://www.tokiolab.it/#/ - this one I'm going to attempt to use soon in work - cheap/dirty work around for effect. (words fly in, copy and pasted group overlays, words disappear, group moves up --> if that makes any sense).
http://unfold.no/#/people Love the tilt look.
....and for the programming geeks - http://www.richardshepherd.com/smashing/parallax/background.html - me thinks this might be how I design my new portfolio.
Happy Friday!
Thanks for these Melissa - they are amazing.. but all done in Flash right??
Do we think these effects can be achieved in MS Powerpoint?
yes, the effects can be achieved in PowerPoint - albeit with a wee bit of frustration and potential lost functionality to Presenter (no transitions - only move and fade folks, move and fade.)
As for the web sites -
CSS/HTML5(?)and a wee bit of JS -source files for one of the links playing can be found here: https://github.com/richardshepherd/Parallax-Scrolling.
I'll post more if I find different ways to emulate some of these things with PPT.
I should have known that someone in this magnificient community would enthusiastically take up the challenge. Congratulations Melissa and thanks for the additional links ... isn't it a great feeling to be inspired rather than overawed? This scrolling idea is obviously very popular and the variations thought provoking.
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