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A stick figure animation made using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. Microsoft PowerPoint animation is a form of animation which uses Microsoft PowerPoint and similar programs to create a game or movie. The artwork is generally created using PowerPoint's AutoShape features, and then animated slide-by-slide or by using Custom Animation.
The wide use of PowerPoint had, by 2010, given rise to " ... a subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts [that] is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium," [172] by using PowerPoint animation to create "games, artworks, anime, and movies." [173]
Animation - the technique of creating moving images from still pictures, often used in films, television, and video games to bring characters and stories to life. Multimedia can be recorded for playback on computers, laptops , smartphones , and other electronic devices.
Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set, or screen touch. Apart from text, the term "hypertext" is also sometimes used to describe tables, images, and other presentational content formats with integrated hyperlinks.
In 2D computer animation, moving objects are often referred to as "sprites." A sprite is an image that has a location associated with it. The location of the sprite is changed slightly, between each displayed frame, to make the sprite appear to move. [16] The following pseudocode makes a sprite move from left to right:
For example, PowerPoint now has an easy-to-use animation facility that, in the right hands, can produce very effective educational animations. Because animations can explicitly depict changes over time ( temporal changes), they seem ideally suited to the teaching of processes and procedures.
Text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides" or "foils" [citation needed]. The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector , a device that has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of presentation software.
A computer-animated film is an animated film that was created using computer software to appear three-dimensional.While traditional 2D animated films are now [when?] made primarily with the help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics (CG) or 3D computer-generated imagery (CGI), is unique to computer animation.