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Do you know what will make your presentation even more awesome? Animations, that’s what. This is why today we gathered for you an entire collection of free Gifs for PowerPoint you can download and use right away. In the following article, you’ll find our exclusive free for personal and commercial use character-based GIF animations, as well as freebie animations from other sources.

Since we added a new category for PowerPoint presentations where we added our free and premium packs, we decided to expand the concept and add other resources, such as the animations you’re about to see. So let’s jump right in.

Article overview: 1. Free Gifs for PowerPoint by GraphicMama 2. Free PowerPoint Animation Sources by Other Creators 2.1. Free Social Media Animations from Cliply 2.2. Fair Use Free Gifs on Giphy 2.3. Fair Use Free Gifs on Tenor 2.4. Generating Free Animated Gifs for Presentations by MotionElements 3. Premium Animated GIF sets

1. Free Gifs for PowerPoint by GraphicMama

We’ll start with a royalty-free collection of our own. We made these Gifs for PowerPoint and would love to share them with you. These are exclusive for today’s article, so you won’t find them anywhere on our website. With that out of the way, feel free to download any pack of animations you like directly and get creative with your next presentation. Each bundle includes the poses you’ll see in the preview image in a zip file with high-quality transparent gifs with 1080 px width.

📝 These characters are also exclusive free puppets for your animation videos. You can find them in our article, a collection of  Most Awesome and Free Character Animator Puppets .

Alex The Businessman Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Waving, Thumbs Up, Puzzled, Pointing Up

Here’s one of our most popular characters with 4 different presentational poses. The young businessman always brings a good mood and professionalism.

• 4 Separate Animations
• Files : Transparent GIF
• Height : 1080 pixels
• Based on: Alex the Businessman Puppet for Character Animator
• License : Royalty-Free │ Free for Personal and Commercial Use │ Do Not Sell or Distribute

Viking Boy Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Waving, Showing, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

Big and strong Viking boy with a soft and kind heart. He’s the sidekick of his young but fierce Viking sister and together they invade presentations and make them awesome.

• Based on: Free Male Viking Character Set  for presentations

Viking Girl Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Showing, Waving, Thumbs Up, Pointing Up

And here she is, the little sister with an attitude. Trained as a great warrior, the Viking girl means business and doesn’t back down.

• Based on : Free female Viking Cartoon Character Set

Cute Business Bear Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Showing, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up, Waving

Can’t bear the awesomeness of the charming business bear and his impeccable sports elegant style.

• Based on : Free Bear Cartoon Character Set

Friendly Caveman Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Pointing Up, ThumbsUp, Waving, Angry with a Bat

Detailed cartoon of a confident caveman with an epic unibrow that will bring a lot of fun to your videos. One of the animations gives him a stone bat to wave around fiercely if your audience doesn’t pay enough attention.

• Based on : Free Caveman Cartoon Character Set

Charming Green Witch Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Thumbs Up 1, Showing, Waving, Thumbs Up 2

Luckily, we’re past the middle ages and it’s ok and legal to bring some sorcery into your presentations. When it comes to PowerPoint magic, this sweet green witch is your girl.

Cool Tiger Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: Puzzled 1, Impatient, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

Here’s a beautiful striped powerful-looking but quite a friendly tiger cartoon character. He’s very diverse in terms of projects you can use him for.

Nerdy Entrepreneur Free Gifs for PowerPoint

Poses Preview: A Brilliant Idea, Thumbs Up, Waving, Pointing Up

This guy is full of brilliant ideas so if you relate, why not join forces and make an insightful business presentation for your viewers.

• Based on: Free Presentation Cartoon Character Set

Businesswoman Executive Free Gifs for PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Showing, Waving, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up

This charming lady is a business strategist character and has rolled her sleeves to do some winning. Ideal for marketing presentations and explainer videos.

Powerful Female Superhero Free PowerPoint Gif Animations

Poses Preview: Waving 1, Pointing Up, Thumbs Up, Waving 2, Power Up

This superhero girl packs beauty and power in one character.  She floats in the air while giving presentations some star power.

• 5 Separate Animations

Superhero With a Cape Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Thumbs Up, Waving, Pointing Up, Confused

Sometimes, what you need is a mighty superhero with a cool cape. So, here’s a powerful crime-fighter with a hidden identity behind a mask with laser eyes.

• Based on : Free Superhero Cartoon Character Set

Octoberfest Waitress Free Gifs for PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Dessert, Waving, Thumbs Up, Menu

Next is a lovely blonde Octoberfest-style waitress with sweet desserts and a menu animation poses. Ideal for presentations related to restaurants, bars, beer and sweets.

Chilling Monk Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Waving, Tea, Pointing Up

Eastern monk with a hot cup of tea. Nothing less than pure relaxation for your zen presentation.

• 3 Separate Animations
• Based on : Free Monk Boy Cartoon Character Set

Cute Retro Robot Free PowerPoint Animations

Poses Preview: Hiding, Pointing, Shy, Love, Thumbs Up, Waving

This a very cute, shy vintage robot puppet that rocks the retro-futuristic style as a character coming straight out of a SciFi movie from the 60s. Ideal for presentations about technology.

• 6 Separate Animations

Friendly Shark Free PowerPoint Animation Poses

Poses Preview: Attention, Vibing, Waving, Bye Bye

Here’s Sharkboy. The lovable, friendly goofy shark who’s just vibing and will make you fall in love with him.

2. Free PowerPoint Animation Sources by Other Creators

These were the exclusive free PowerPoint animations we had much fun making and were eager to share. Now, let’s move on to the other sources that we recommend when you’re in search of royalty-free animations or gifs under the Fair Use copyright law. We’ll point out the specific terms of each source in its respective category.

📝 Please keep in mind that non-profit and educational projects are always a safe option when using free resources.

2.1. Free Social Media Animations from Cliply

Cliply has a huge collection of premium animated icons and other animations. Depending on if you purchase freebies, premium, or business resources, the licenses and uses vary. This is why make sure to check out the license on every resource you decide to download.

However, today we’re all about free animations. That’s why we’ve selected some great-looking social media icon animations for your social media slides in PowerPoint.

YouTube Icon Free Animation

• Files : MOV, MP4, PNG, GIF
• Height : Up to 1080 px
• License : Free for personal, nonprofit, and educational use.
• Terms : Attribution not required but appreciated

Twitter Icon Free Animation

Tiktok logo free animation, tiktok icon free animation, social media icons free animation, linkedin icon free animation, instagram likes free animation.

• License : Royalty-Free │ Free for personal, nonprofit, and educational use.
• Terms : Attribution not required

Instagram Icon Free Animation

Facebook icon free animation, 2.2. fair use free gifs on giphy.

Aside from the free PowerPoint animations, you can also benefit from using live-action GIFs.  Giphy is one of the databases that offer an endless library of GIFs based on movies, tv-shows, videos, and everything else. You will find out everything viral and the latest memes made into GIFs. Now, the question is. Is it legal to use a free GIF that has a few seconds from a scene from an obviously copyrighted movie or video?

📝  Just like every other creative work, GIFs are copyright material. However . They are more complicated as there is no legal way to license the use of GIFs for the purposes of commercial use. With this being said, in most cases, GIFs fall under the grey area of Fair Use .

With this in mind, you will find out many brands use such GIFs for their blog posts, ads, and social media. You can also use such materials in your PowerPoint presentations to make your visuals more fun and engaging. Especially if you’re an educator and wish to make your lesson more exciting for your student. Memes will save us all! 🙂

Below are some great examples from Giphy great for presentational purposes.

Simpson’s Free Presentation GIF

Cartman free presentation gif, 2.3. fair use free gifs on tenor.

Similar to Giphy,  Tenor also offers a huge database of GIF images on every topic. This database benefits from an entire community of users uploading GIFs on a daily basis so there’s something for everyone.

For example, here’s how to make your cats listen to you and watch your presentation.

Thursday Laser Pointer GIF

Cartoon science presentation gif, 2.4. generating free animated gifs for presentations by motionelements.

And the last source, something we stumbled on recently, is MotionElements . This is a royalty-free marketplace in Asia for stock media where we found a curious way to make presentation GIFs. It’s not free PowerPoint animations but gives an equally nice interaction and life to a presentation.

Their  free animated gifs category  has various few-seconds videos that you can turn into GIFs. When you click a video, you can select which moment from it you’d like as a GIF. Once you’re ready, you can choose to save the GIF in three different sizes.

• Requirements: Downloading freebies requires registration (no credit card info required unless you want to download Premium resources)
• License: Royalty-Free │ Safe for Commercial Use
• Available Gif Sizes from Videos: Small (256 x 144 px), Medium (480 x 270 px), Large ( 640 x 360 px)

Below are a few examples of GIFs we’ve made from MotionElement’s videos to try out the GIF-maker.

Young Successful Businesswoman Free Stock Gif

Welcome to the presentation free stock gif, business concept wordstorm free stock gif, grand opening presentation intro free stock gif, 3. premium animated gif sets.

These were the exclusive free PowerPoint animations by Graphic Mama and free gifs and animations from other sources. We hope you enjoyed the collection and expanded your library with valuable resources for your next presentation.

Now, if you really want to make a hyper-interactive PowerPoint presentation with more matching action poses and versatile concept animations, have a look below.

We made the following animation sets specifically with that idea in mind and we’re excited to show them off.

Nick Smartman Animated GIF Images Collection

Nick is a smart business cartoon character set of 12 animated GIFs. The animations suit many different purposes, like presentations, or social media posts.

• 12 Separate Animations for PowerPoint
• Files : Transparent GIF images
• Based on: Nick Smartman Character Set   │ Puppet

Elegant Businesswoman Animated GIFs Collection

Here’s our lovely elegant business lady character that comes in 12 different presentational animations in GIF format. The animations feature pointing, waving, peeking, targeting, and more.

• Based on: Attractive Businesswoman Character Animator Puppet

Flying Robot Animated GIFs Collection

There is not a single reason why you shouldn’t put a robot character in your presentation. Robots are cool, and everybody loves them. This little guy is jet-packed with 12 different animations and emotions.

• Based on : Flying Robot Cartoon Character Set  │ Puppet

Cute Panda Animated GIFs Collection

Bambootiful panda character arrives with 12 different animations to assist your presentations. The cute panda set features the animated concepts in GIF format files, ready to import and use for your projects.

• Based on: Cute Panda Character Set  │   Puppet

Alice Skinny Jeans Animated GIFs Collection

Alice is a cute, young woman cartoon character with blonde hair. She is available in a set of 12 animated GIFs. Each of them is 1080px tall. They are perfect for many different purposes, for example, you can use them in your presentations, or combine them with text and use them in social media.

• Based on : Casual Alice with Skinny Jeans Character Set  │ Puppet

Alfred Carierist Animated GIFs Collection

Alfred is a smart executive-type businessman character, available in a set of 12 animated GIFs. Each of the animated GIFs is 1080px tall. They are perfect for many different purposes, for example, you can use them in your presentations, or combine them with text and use them in social media.

• Based on: Alfred the Careerist Character Set  │ Puppet

Final Words

Animations in PowerPoint are absolutely awesome. They give that extra chef’s kiss that can turn a presentation into a personal masterpiece. Feel free to use our free Gifs for PowerPoint for your next project and build more engagement.

In the meantime, for more free resources for PowerPoint, check out these related articles.

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How to Make GIFs as a Background on PowerPoint: A Step-by-Step Guide

Have you ever wanted to spice up your PowerPoint presentation with some animated fun? Adding GIFs as a background can not only make your slides more visually appealing but can also keep your audience engaged. The process is simple and can be done in just a few steps. After inserting a GIF as a background, your PowerPoint slides will come to life, making your presentation stand out from the rest.

Once you complete the action of inserting a GIF into your PowerPoint background, your slide will have a continuous looping animation that will play throughout your presentation or until you move to the next slide. This can add a dynamic element to your presentation and make it more memorable for your audience.

Introduction

In the digital age, presentations have become a staple in both educational and professional settings. PowerPoint, being one of the most widely used presentation tools, allows users to create slideshows that can include various forms of media, such as images, videos, and GIFs. But why stop at just adding these elements to your slides? Why not make them the background, adding an extra layer of engagement to your presentation?

GIFs, or Graphics Interchange Format files, are a series of images or soundless videos that loop continuously without requiring the viewer to press play. They’re perfect for adding a bit of personality or humor to your presentation, or for illustrating a point in a way that static images simply can’t. And let’s face it, who doesn’t love a good GIF?

So, who is this tutorial relevant to? Well, anyone who wants to make their presentation more interesting, really. Teachers can use GIF backgrounds to make their lessons more captivating for students. Business professionals can add a professional GIF to underscore their points during a business presentation. Even students can benefit by making their school presentations more engaging and less of a snooze-fest. So let’s get started, shall we?

Step by Step Tutorial: Inserting GIFs as a Background in PowerPoint

Before diving into the steps, it’s important to note that adding a GIF as a background will give your slides a unique and dynamic look, setting your presentation apart from the conventional, static slides.

Step 1: Open PowerPoint and select the slide where you want to add the GIF background.

Choose the slide that you want to bring to life with an animated background.

Step 2: Click on the “Design” tab and select “Format Background.”

The Format Background pane will appear, allowing you to make changes to the slide’s background.

Step 3: In the Format Background pane, select “Picture or texture fill.”

This option will enable you to insert an image or GIF as your slide’s background.

Step 4: Click on “File” to insert the GIF from your computer.

Navigate to the location of your GIF file, select it, and click “Insert.”

Step 5: Adjust the GIF as needed to fill the entire background.

You can resize or reposition the GIF so that it covers the whole slide and looks just right.

Step 6: Close the Format Background pane and preview your slide.

Once you’re satisfied with how the GIF looks, close the pane and start your slideshow to see the animated background in action.

Additional Information

When deciding to use GIFs as a background in your PowerPoint presentations, there are a few additional tips you might find helpful. First, make sure the GIF’s colors don’t clash with the text or other elements on your slide. You want everything to be readable and harmonious. Second, consider the tone of your presentation. A silly GIF might not be appropriate for a serious business meeting, but could be perfect for a casual team update.

If you’re worried about the GIF distracting your audience, you can always use it on just one or two slides where you really want to grab attention, rather than throughout the entire presentation. Also, remember that less is often more. A subtle, slow-moving GIF might be more effective than something fast and flashy.

Lastly, always test your PowerPoint presentation with the GIF backgrounds on the device you’ll be presenting with. This ensures that there are no surprises on the big day. Remember, a well-executed GIF background can make your PowerPoint presentation truly memorable.

• Open PowerPoint and choose the slide for the GIF background.
• Click on “Design” and select “Format Background.”
• Choose “Picture or texture fill.”
• Insert the GIF from your computer.
• Adjust the GIF to fill the background.
• Close the pane and preview the slide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can i add a gif to a powerpoint slide without making it the background.

Yes, you can add a GIF to a slide without making it the background by inserting it as a regular image.

Will the GIF animation play during the PowerPoint slideshow?

Yes, the GIF will loop continuously during the slideshow unless you move to another slide.

Can I use any GIF as a background in PowerPoint?

In theory, yes, but it’s important to choose a GIF that is appropriate for your presentation’s tone and content.

Will adding a GIF background slow down my presentation?

It could, especially if the file size of the GIF is large. It’s best to test the presentation beforehand to check for any performance issues.

Can I control the speed of the GIF in PowerPoint?

No, the speed of the GIF is determined by how it was created. You would need to edit the GIF with an external program before inserting it into PowerPoint.

Incorporating GIFs as a background in your PowerPoint presentations can be a game-changer. It adds a layer of dynamism that can captivate your audience’s attention and make your message stick. However, it’s important to strike a balance and ensure that the GIFs enhance rather than detract from your presentation. Keep in mind the potential drawbacks and plan accordingly.

Remember, a presentation is more than just conveying information; it’s about creating an experience. By using GIFs thoughtfully, you can create a memorable and effective PowerPoint presentation that stands out. Now go ahead, find that perfect GIF, and give your next presentation the animated flair it deserves!

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Just type any text and PaperAnimator will transform it into funky magazine letter style! Each time it's a new surprise, so keep experimenting!

Creating Paper Animated Graphics Just Became Super Easy!

Say goodbye to complex editing and countless plugins—achieving that paper fold-out effect is now as easy as folding a napkin at a fancy dinner!

Intuitive & Easy to use

PaperAnimator features a simple drag & drop interface with ability to pan & zoom so you can play around and experiment with your animations.

Highly Customizable

You can tweak paper animation settings such as edge tickness, intensity, detail. Also things like animation size, shadow, cutout style and movement.

Background Removal

The built-in Background Removal tool with the latest object selection feature lets you choose which person or object to extract from the original image.

Green Screen

You can export your paper animations with a green screen background, making them easy to use in any editing software. Just apply the Chroma key effect, and you're done!

Transparent PNG Export

If you only need paper cut-out graphics for a YouTube thumbnail or other purposes, you can export them as transparent PNGs.

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