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Create Animated Explainer Videos with PowerPoint

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Overview

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Are you envious when you see those professional explainer videos certain companies have? 

Did you ever watched an animated YouTube video and wondered, if you just could do something that good and engaging?

With help of this course I will go with you step-by-step and teach you how you can create outstanding animated explainer videos using only PowerPoint!

You surely heard that more than 70% of the current web traffic is consumed via Video so it's obviously one of the most preferred and well recieved ways of promoting any product, material or content. This is why you should be able to make good quality content that people will want to watch.

You can also use the skills to create videos for oyur clients.

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This course focuses on creating Explainer Videos with PowerPoint. I want to teach you advanced animation techniques and make sure that I explain you everything you need to know during that process. We will learn:

  • How to gather resources for our work

  • How to prepare templates

  • How to properly build scenes

  • Usage of typography and kinetic typography in your work

  • Export high quality and ready, animated videos

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We will create 3 types of animated videos in this course:

  1. An animated Product Promo video with multiple products shuffling around on the screen

  2. An animated Character Explainer Video in powerpoint with a custom downloaded character

  3. An explainer video with the use of Morph transitions - the newest powerpoint 2019 function

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With help of this course you will get better at PowerPoint and become very confident working with any type of animation. We will also explore new features that PowerPoint offers by utilizing it's newest Morph transition function.

I highly encourage you to take this course and have some fun inside PowerPoint with me, see you inside! Enroll now! 

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Syllabus

  • Promo Video
  • 01-01. Introduction
  • Start a project!
  • 01-02. Prepare your first scene transition
  • 01-03. Prepare your first kinetic typography
  • 02-01. Websites to get icons
  • 02-02. Websites to get fonts
  • 02-03. Websites to get characters
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  • 02-04. JPG, PNG or Vector - Hard PowerPoint question
  • 02-05. Adding Vectors to PowerPoint on MAC
  • 02-06. Adding Vectors to PowerPoint
  • 03-01. Embedding fonts
  • 03-02. Preparing a template
  • 03-03. Importing Color Schemes
  • 03-04. Remove background from JPG images
  • 04-01. Building 2D scenes
  • 04-02. Building 3D scenes
  • 04-03. Rotating elements in 3D space
  • 05-01. Effect Options
  • 05-02. Animation smoothling
  • 05-03. Multiple animations
  • 05-04. MORPH is a game changer
  • 06-01. Introduction to Product Promo Video
  • 06-02. Opener Logo Animation Pt. 1
  • 06-03. Opener Logo Animation Pt. 2
  • 06-04. Design the introduction slide
  • 06-05. Introduction slide animation
  • 06-06. Amazing highlight effect
  • 06-07. Create and design the text copy
  • 06-08. Design and subtract custom elements
  • 06-09. Animate all elements Pt. 1
  • 06-10. Animate all elements Pt. 2
  • 06-11. Duplicating existing elements
  • 06-12. Custom Transition
  • 06-13. Implementing custom transitions
  • 06-14. Add custom music to round it up
  • 07-01. Introduction to Character Explainer Video
  • 07-02. Design the first slide
  • 07-03. Animate the first slide
  • 07-04. Custom Motion Paths
  • 07-05. Handling transitions like a boss
  • 07-06. Animating entire scene
  • 07-07. Follow up slides
  • 07-08. Consecituve slides made fast
  • 07-09. Add motion elements to spice it up
  • 07-10. Final slide!
  • 07-11. Adjust timing and add music. Done
  • 08-01. Explainer video with MORPH introduction
  • 08-02. Building the scene
  • 08-03. Create custom icons
  • 08-04. Adding elements
  • 08-05. Morph entire scene
  • 08-06. What if you don't have morph
  • 08-07. Have some fun and add text
  • 08-08. Change the pace with different slides
  • 08-09. Animate the added slide
  • 08-10. Duplicate existing elements
  • 08-11. Outro animation - Fly through
  • 08-12. Outro animation - Adding text
  • 08-13. Prepare for exporting
  • 08-14. Conclusion
  • Thank You

Taught by

Andrew Pach

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