Newbie looking for a animation tips.

Greetings,

I've struggled with creating an effective first person motion animation.  I don't want to use video from an actual event, so I've been doing my own in power point and then putting it into storyline.  It's not that great.  I've included an example,so you can see what I mean.  I took some things out to try to isolate it to the motion path.  For this basic level interactive study guide it will suffice, but for complex systems simulation it won't.

I saw Charles Hamper's out-of-this-world game and his 3-D spinning models have been stuck in my head for 12 hours.  How or where can I learn to incorporate similar animation effects? Thank you