Mist rolling in on background

[Jan Il]

Hi all - PPT 2002 XP

I am creating a background for a project, and I will eventually set up a
series of drawings to be set up as a slide show. There will be an object
that will be placed on the background, and I would like to have the
appearance of a mist (or thin, whispy clouds) that slowly drifts in from the
lower left-hand portion of the background, and moves toward the object, and
to some very light degree, shroud a small portion of one side. The object
will, in the slide, also slowly move into toward the center of the
background and stop at a certain spot.

My question is, should I use the conventional animation of animating the
objects, or the paths feature? I'm not sure just how this might work. I
don't want the whisps of mist to move in at a different speed, but, I do
want them to move independently, sort of slightly varying degrees of
direction, ya know...as if slowly creeping in like?

Any suggestions or sites that would offer some information on how to do this
type of effect would be very much appreciated.

Best regards,
Jan

 

[Ron]

I did this recently to show fog coming in over a photo of San Francisco and
it worked very well.
I created fog in Photoshop and saved as a PNG file with transparency. I
imported this into PPT and animated it with the PPT motion paths. I made
the PNG continuous and twice as large as the slide so that it travel from
off slide all the way across in one very slow movement (30 seconds). You
could probably program different paths for separate PNGs.
It was quite realistic and subtle but when people noticed it they were
surprised.

Good Luck!

Ron

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Ron!

I did this recently to show fog coming in over a photo of San Francisco and
it worked very well.
I created fog in Photoshop and saved as a PNG file with transparency. I
imported this into PPT and animated it with the PPT motion paths. I made
the PNG continuous and twice as large as the slide so that it travel from
off slide all the way across in one very slow movement (30 seconds). You
could probably program different paths for separate PNGs.
It was quite realistic and subtle but when people noticed it they were
surprised.

Super!! Sounds like my kind of fog....slow, quiet and subtle. <g>

The primary object that will added onto the background is a ghost ship, so
the relationship between that and the mist is going to play a big part in
the surreal effect I'm after. The subtleness as you described is very much
what I have in mind.

Thank you very much for your time and the great suggestion. I really
appreciate it.

Good Luck!

Thanks, I'm *really* gonna need it! ;-)

Jan