How can I perform a "flip over a card" animation using PPT 2010?

I want to create an animation using PPT 2010 that will look like I'm flipping over a rectangular card, i.e., will look like I'm rotating the card with respect to its vertical axis. Is there an easy way to do this?

The built-in Swivel animation seems to do nearly what I want, but it rotates the object 360 degrees, and I want to rotate it only 180 degrees, i.e., as if I'm flipping an object over.

My ultimate goal is to make it look like I'm flipping an object over to reveal something written on the back side. If there's a better way to approach this problem than a "flip" effect, I'm all ears.

UPDATE: It looks like this is the same question as Flip Animation in PowerPoint 2010.

3 Answers

I know you probably don't need it anymore (since this was posted about a year ago) but Select for Best Answer for future reference so no one has to go through the trial and error. Just got it to work with only a few animations.

Assuming F is the front image, and B is the back image, it goes like this:

B: Swivel (Entrance) - On Click, 3 second duration, no delay
B: Disappear (Exit) - With Previous, Auto duration, no delay
B: Appear (Entrance) - With Previous, Auto duration, 2.4 second delay
F: Swivel (Exit) - With Previous, 3 second duration, 1.8 second delay
F: Disappear (Exit) - With Previous, Auto duration, 2.4 second delay
Total Animation time: 6 seconds

Note if you want a faster swivel, just reduce it porportionally. (i.e. If you want a 2 second animation, divide duration and delays by 3, etc...)

Hope this helps everyone! :D

With your object, first attach a swivel exit animation, and set its timing to be "slow" - 3 seconds.

Then attach a "disappear" exit animation, but set it's delay to be .6 seconds, and set it to "start with previous", so that it starts at the same time as the swivel, but doesn't do the disappear until .6 seconds.

This means that the swivel will start on a click, but then disappear entirely when it gets to the sideways on point, which is at the .6 second mark.

So that is the top card disappearing.

For the "back", you use a swivel entrance, but it needs to be hidden from view until it has reached the right point in the swivel. You can't combine entrance animations, so you need a third object that sits between the "front" and the "back" object. This should be the same colour as the slide background, have a "disappear" animation, set to start at the same time as the swivel for the "back" object, but with a delay of 2.5 seconds.

So the swivel starts for the "Back" object, but it isn't seen because there is an opaque object over the top of it. At 2.5 seconds, the opaque object disappears and you see the end of the swivel for the "Back" object, which at 2.5 seconds appears to be when it is sideways on.

You'll need to start the "Back" swivel animation prior to the first object, because it appears to do three turns before completing. So you want it to appear when it is sideways on in the last revolution, and then have the Appear animation kick in then, so that the previous object's Disappear and this ones Appear coincide.

If you get the timing right, it should look like the object flipping over.

The above information on setting up flip over card work with a couple of minor tweeks. It did take me a few minutes to adjust the timings and selecting the right animation. The following may help with the timing and the animation settings that I put in for a nine second swivel duration which equals 5 half turns.

Front object settings:

1. Exit Basic Swivel, Start On Click, Duration 9.00 seconds
2. Exit Disappear, Start With Previous, Delay 1.8 seconds Object between Settings:
3. Exit Disappear, Start With Previous, Delay 1.8 seconds Rear object settings:
4. Entrance Basic Swivel, Start With Previous, Duration 9.00 seconds, Delay 1.8 seconds Object between Settings:
5. Entrance Appear, Start With Previous, Delay 5.4 seconds Front object settings:
6. Entrance Basic Swivel, Start With Previous, Duration 9 seconds, Delay 5.4 seconds Object between settings:
7. Exit Disappear, Start With Previous, Delay 9.00 seconds Rear object settings:
8. Entrance Basic Swivel, Start With Previous, Duration 9.00 seconds, Delay 9.00 seconds Object between settings:
9. Entrance Appear, Start With Previous, Delay 12.6 seconds Front object settings:
10. Entrance Basic Swivel, Start With Previous, Duration 9.00 seconds, Delay 12.6 seconds

Finishing off is up to the individual but I finished off with the following.

Front object settings:

1. Exit Disappear, Start With Previous, Delay 14.4 seconds Inserted original Front Object without any animations attached and added the following:
2. Entrance Appear, Start With Previous, Delay 14.4 seconds

Remember that the total duration time of the swivel should be divided by five as that's how many quarter turns there are in the animation. Depending on it being an Entrance or exit as it will start or finish with a fifth of its duration at this point before turning or exiting. So when you want the next slide to appear just divide duration by five and double it.

Cameron