If you've used any slide-based presentation tools, you'll be familiar with animations. They are normally used to slowly reveal certain points as the presenter discusses them with their audience. They help engage a little more and used well enough, they can really help tell your story.

Prezi offers the option to fade in content as a functionality that can be accessed while editing the path. And that's it—users can only fade in as no other animations are available. This can be done from two different locations, either the path thumbnail previews on the left-hand side of the screen, or from the path step displayed on the main canvas. To access the animation features, you need to click on the icon that looks like a shooting star, as seen here:

Now, when you hover over an item, a green shooting star appears. You can click on each element in the order that you want it to fade in. Let's take a look at an example here:

In the preceding example, our character has already been grouped, and...