Creating Animations Using Generative AI and PowerPoint

Three named instructional designers walk through turning one generative-AI image into a short looping animation using nothing but PowerPoint, so you finish with a moving explainer for a lecture or a course page without buying or learning video editing software. The transcript is candid about the parts that do not work first time, including an image the authors rejected from one model and regenerated in another, and it shows the select-and-edit step for fixing the bits of a generated picture you do not want. Because the whole workflow runs on tools most campuses already license, it is a realistic next step for a faculty member whose only previous image work was typing a prompt and accepting whatever came back.

Task

Images & figures

Time

30 min

Level

beginner

Cost

Needs a licence — Requires a licence your institution may or may not hold.

Tools

ChatGPT, Gemini, PowerPoint

Published

2026-06-04