Hello everyone again.
Today we're going to learn how to make an
animated scale in PowerPoint.
Here's how to get this effect.
First, make your scale, then animate your
scale, and finally, add objects to it to make
it tilt back and forth.
Okay.
Let's start with making our scale.
There are two ways to do this.
The first is a simple scale you could make
yourself using basic shapes which I'll show
you in this video, or you can use a pre-made
vector image from the Microsoft Office clip
art site, which I'll describe how to do in
the video description.
It's not too complicated either so don't worry.
Alright, I will now show you how to create
your basic scale with shapes.
Let's start by making a triangle base here.
Next, make a horizontal bar across the top.
This probably has some kind of technical name,
but I'm not sure exactly what it is.
If you know, feel free to share.
Let's color it orange for contrast.
After that, add a circle and make it orange
as well.
Next, let's make the scales themselves.
We're going to draw two lines in the triangle
form.
So, make one line then make it thicker three
points, color orange to match.
Then copy and Flip Horizontally.
And now make the bottom of the scale with
a thin rectangle there.
Now group the three pieces, and let's stretch
the group down a bit.
Copy and hang the copy on the other side as
well.
Now group the center bar and circle, and let's
add a little rectangle base to the bottom.
It just looks a little bit better.
And finally, bring the orange bar to the front
so that it's in front of both scales.
And that's it.
Now let's get to the fun part of animating
this scale.
For this step, we will need to take the bar
to the side like this and have the scales
go up or down with it.
First, we see where the position of the bar
will be, at ten degrees clockwise, so go to
Format Shape and rotate it ten degrees clockwise.
This way we can create motion paths for the
scales to be in the same place.
Let's start by adding an upward motion path
to the left scale, and we have to line it
up at the bar.
So, it's best to zoom in as much as we can
while we do this.
And you can see in PowerPoint 2013, I get
a nice preview of where the scale will go.
Okay, done.
Let's do the other side and add a downward
motion path this time.
And line it up in the same way.
Now make both animations start With Previous.
Make them 1.00 in duration and remove the
smooth start and smooth end, which I found
under the Effect Options.
Now that we've lined up the scales, let's
put the bar back to zero degrees under Format
Shape.
Now we can tip it with the spin animation
instead.
So, let's add that.
And wow, that's way too much for us.
Let's go to Effect Options and change the
rotation to ten degrees clockwise.
Let's make it one second in duration to match
the scales and make it start With Previous.
Okay.
And now let's test it out.
Very cool and again nice.
Great.
Now if you just needed to tip one away like
this, skip to Step 3 right now.
Otherwise, if you want to come back to its
original position, keep watching.
To have it come back, we first have to duplicate
or make a copy of our slide.
And now we're going to work from the copied
slide, Slide 2, not the original.
So, we first add the ten degrees Rotation
in Format Shape.
This is a little tricky but we copy each scale,
and we carry the copied scale over to the
other side.
This is to save us time recreating the motion
paths because they're already attached.
Use the original scales as guides for you,
and when you're done, delete them.
Now we simply reverse the spin direction of
the bar to be counter-clockwise, and that's
what you get.
And let's just also bring that bar to the
front so that it will be in front of the scales.
Now it seems like we're done here but just
like with any advanced animation, you have
to make sure that the end state of the first
slide is exactly the same at the beginning
state of the second slide, but there are no
jumps or breaks.
Let's test this out, starting with the first
slide.
Now pay attention to the areas in yellow as
we go on to the second slide.
Oh, there was a jump.
Watch it again.
Looks like on the second slide we need to
move the top scale up and left and the bottom
scale down and right.
Let's do that really quickly, up and left
and down and right.
And see how it goes.
Much better and that is good enough for me.
So now we finally have the scale which is
fantastic because it is a little bit of a
pain to build as you saw.
But once you have it done, the good news is
that you can repurpose it for many future
projects.
Okay.
Let's move to the final piece, which is adding
objects to the scale.
Let's just use a simple red ball as our object.
First, we can add a bounce entrance fact to
make it more fun, then we go to Add Animation
and add a downward motion path to it.
It works best for this part if we do a maximum
zoom.
Now we try to make the motion path exactly
the same as the scale.
So, play around with that.
That should be good.
Now let's re-order the animations to make
the bounce be first and start With Previous.
And then the next one after that start After
Previous.
Make the motion path we just added start With
Previous too.
Change the duration to one second to match
everything else and take out the smooth start
and smooth end.
Also, let's just move it down a tiny bit so
it's resting better on the scale and here
is what you get.
By the way, if you have PowerPoint 2010 and
above, an easier way to make the motion path
is to use the animation painter.
Just select the scale, hit the Painter button
and select the ball.
Now you just Add Animation and put in the
Bounce effect.
And of course, reorder the animations as I
showed you previously.
Now we’re ready for the last step which
is to add the ball to Slide 2 as well.
So, we go to Slide 2 and paste our ball there.
Take out the original motion path and Add
Animation and an upward motion path.
Take out smooth start and end, adjust the
motion path.
Oh, and remove the bounce effect.
I forgot to do that.
Make it start With Previous.
Make it one second long, and there is what
it looks.
Now it's the same deal.
We go back to Slide 1 and play the two slides
together to make sure there is no jump in
between.
Now keep your eye on the ball here.
You can see that it jumped left which means
we have to move it a bit to the right to make
it look good.
And I just did that off-screen - and here
is the final result.
Perfect.
Great job.
You've stuck with me to the end, and now you
have a very interesting new technique to add
to your toolkit.
Thanks for watching, and see you soon.
