Make my owl blink on a slide
May 17, 2016
By
joanne k
I've read through some of the other blogs regarding blinking objects or "next" buttons, but couldn't quite find what I needed. I want my owl to blink a few times on a slide, not continuously. I experimented with triggers: I inserted a two black circles, once covering each eye. I made their "normal" state invisible, and "flashing" state black. I added 4 triggers to each eye, using 1/4 second intervals to change the black circles from invisible to black, and then again.
This works, but is time consuming to build. And, I want to add more blinks. Is there an easier way to do this, so that I can add a few more owl blinks? I like the effect and will want to use it elsewhere.
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Perhaps a gif? You can make your own gifs a million places online (just google "GIF maker.") Then you can have two states for your owl. Still and blink. Then on the timeline you could have the state happen sporadically throughout. (Or you could even have it be easter egg based, the owls state changes to "blink" based on the user mousing over random spaces on the screen!)
Kayla, thank you so much! I just read up on GIF s and my coworker is going to save the different "looks" using Photoshop, then we'll make the GIF and see if it works. I'll post results when successful.
My coworker designed a GIF where the object blinks the way I want it to, then looped it. This took care of everything. I guess being able to design a GIF is the answer.
Thank you for the tip.
How exciting! Thanks for popping back in to share. I've never created one either :)
I find it does the job well!
Also making gifs is very easy to do all by yourself using online tools.
I use http://makeagif.com/pictures-to-gif but there are many others. It's just a matter of saving 5-20 static images which get combined (Think flipbook animation as a kid!)
Glad it helped!
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