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by sshah1983 1021 days ago
I’ll never forget the grade 9 science class Powerpoint presentation I did in 1998. I had each letter of every headline flying in one by one with a laser sound (pew pew pew). That was my first moment of magic with Powerpoint.
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I actually created a two part acrion-animation movie lasting ~10 minutes when I was in 8th grade.

It had tanks, helicopters, and ammunitions flying.

All with sound.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to make.

Also got a graphic designer neighbor to do a title for my "movie" in AfterEffects.

If you used WordArt in your titles, that was an intern project by Scott Forstall who later created iOS.
I got an attaboy when I used sounds and flying text in my first summer office job. It was cool.