On designing and interactive animations

Question

i need to know how to make those animations where you slide your finger across the screen, like a timeline and the entire image changes. second, please someone tell me about, how to make an image with key points, like, when i click on the key animal body, it reflects on other images. kindly help.

Answer 1

anupkohle,
These are difficult illusions to create on Keynote since Keynote doesn't support hyperlinking objects on the same slide. That said, a close approximation to what you want can be created in Keynote using multiple slides and hyperlink objects to slides and, perhaps, assigning a nice transition to the slides.
The key here is to have each slide have the elements in the same place so no motion is seen - things appear when something else is clicked. The basic way to do this is to:
1. Create one slide with everything on it (pictures, text boxes, shapes etc.) then to clone that slide multiple times in the Navigator using option-drag.
2. On each secondary slide, carefully delete non-essential bits by selecting and hitting delete - the result should be a series of slides that have different as well as the key parts (time line or image with parts where you wish to click)
3. Create small shapes and place them on the original target image or object and select each separately and assign a hyperlink to the secondary slide that would reveal the information you want - Note: be sure to check enable hyperlink in the Hyperlink Inspector in each case. Hyperlinks work with objects like shapes.
4. With the object still selected set the object fill opacity to zero (this allows the entire object to be clickable - if you select no fill, only the stroke is clickable), repeat for each part you wish to talk about
5. On the first secondary slide place a small object where you can later find it. Hyperlink it to the original slide, set opacity as needed, COPY this object and then click on the next secondary slide in the Navigator and PASTE (that will place the object in the same place on each secondary slide as a return-button).
Timeline would be done similarly. The general effect is the appearance of items (images, text) while the rest of the slide appears to remain in place.
Good luck.