Basic PowerPoint Animation

For Football Playbooks

by Coach Wade

All text and diagrams © Derek A. “Coach” Wade, July 2007.

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For several years I’ve been asked how I put together the
animations in the PowerPoint presentations I’ve created as
standalone training and teaching tools and for clinic
presentations.
For several years I’ve been asked how I put together the
animations in the PowerPoint presentations I’ve created as
standalone training and teaching tools and for clinic
presentations.
It’s not difficult, and this presentation will show you the
basics.
You can either draw your own figures with the built in
“Autoshapes” tool included in PowerPoint. (Which is fine
for basic shapes, but harder for custom shapes.)
Or you can import a picture to draw upon.
I use both techniques as needed. I usually only draw the
graphics when I’m going to make them move around. The
rest of the time I import a picture. It’s faster to draw on
top.
The next slide will start out blank and demonstrate an
automatic animation.
This is an example of “Appear.”

To use this animation, right click on a text box border or any other
object, and then select “Appear” from the drop down menu under
“Entry Affect”

To set timing, from the same context menu select the “Order and
Timing” tab. You can have this animation take place on a mouse click
or any time after the previous animation. (Loading the slide is
considered an animation.)

Click the mouse to see an example.

This text box will not appear until

you click the mouse button.
Clicking again will go to the next
slide.
“Wipe” works the same way when you’re adding the basic animation:
1: Right click on the item,
2: Select the animation
3: Select the order and timing

Click the mouse to see examples

of “Wipe”
You can string “wipes” together to show routes.

This is a wipe right line connected to a wipe up arrow, set to animate on

the mouse click.

The red line animates on mouse click. The blue arrow animates “0”
seconds after the previous animation is finished, giving the appearance
that it is one solid line.

Click the mouse to see an

example.
If you make the lines the same color and string the wipes together, it
looks unbroken.

Click the mouse to see an

example.

Click it again for an explanation of

what you just saw.
If you make the lines the same color and string the wipes together, it
looks unbroken.

Click the mouse to see an

example.

Wipe right
Wipe right arrow
line Wipe up line

Wipe down
line
If you make the lines the same color and string the wipes together, it
looks unbroken.

Click the mouse to see an

example.

Wipe right
Wipe right arrow
line Wipe up line

Wipe down
line
PS: This last is a group of objects. Hold shift and click on every object you want to
group. Then right click on them and select “Grouping>>group.” Groups can be
animated like anything else. This was a group with “Wipe right” applied.
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Set the slide transition (under “Slide show” above) to advance the slide
automatically after “0” seconds. (This is set to one second to show the
movement more clearly.)

Click the mouse button

to see the animation.

Frame 1
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 2 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 3 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 4 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 5 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 6 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 7 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 8 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 9 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 10 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
This is what it looks like at normal speed. It’s a little choppy, but it gets
smoother if you reduce the time to .4 of a second or less and move the
item less… but that takes a lot more time.

Click the mouse button

to see the animation.

Frame 1
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 2 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 3 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 4 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 5 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 6 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 7 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 8 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animated movement is harder. You have to treat each slide as a
“frame” like a cartoon.

Frame 9 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Make sure you set the last frame to “Advance on mouse click” or a
longer time, or it will flash past without the viewer getting to read it.

Frame 10 (Duplicate slide,

arrow nudged one space to
the right with arrow key.)
Animation is not particularly difficult, just time
consuming. Start with these basics, and you should be able
to produce an animated playbook for your assistants and
players in a very short time.
The real trick is to restrain yourself from using

all kinds of zany animation!

Animation is distracting. Use it sparingly, and only to
make a specific point or demonstrate a path of travel.
Remember: you want the viewer to see your CONTENT,
not your creativity.
When in doubt, chop it out! (Remember that the viewer
can’t click onward until the animation completes!)
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Thanks for viewing!

~D.
Coach_Wade@hotmail.com

Coach Wade and Tim Kehoe, Tomales CA (2005)