Useful functions and applications - 1

Now let’s begin the introduction of utilizing some of the interesting functions. Today we’re going to talk about animation design.

In short, animations are convenient when it comes to abridging unnecessary pages, shielding contents that are not presenting at the moment, highlighting short texts…etcetera. Let me show you some brief examples of these.

First, we may have many pictures to present along with a single page. You can arrange them like this,

and then let them pop up in a row of your own need. Nevertheless, there are items of different sizes that the ones behind may discomfort the audiences. So, we have to clear the background by redesign the animations:

As you can see, the next item pops up right after the previous one vanishes. Thus, the current picture can be focused on, which can boost the efficiency in your speech.

Take our general chemistry professor for example, in the chapter “Acid and base” he may let us calculate some practical questions. For sure, he himself won’t do it for us at the scene. Instead, he may use an animation to cover the correct calculation process, and then let it show up after many of us are finished.

A typical example acts like this:

The last example to introduce is the animation of text. It can produce the same effect as the covering animation without creating another shielding item. But sometimes the special effects of text animations may divert attention, so remember to be cautious when consider using them~

That’s all for today’s discussion. Hope you find it useful and try to find more practical usages when you’re going to deliver a speech~