There have been plenty of designs on this forum over the years that are testament to the fact that software doesn't matter when it comes to mocks. If you have the talent, the will and the time, you can make anything work.
Back in the day I made a rather accurate re-creation of the bid-up/price-drop graphics in powerpoint, they were never animated though. I never shared them although bid-up was one of the reasons that drew me to the forums at the time when it was discussed frequently.
I'll add another one to my list. My Newsbeat mock had all individual elements created in PowerPoint. The only bits that weren't done in PowerPoint was putting them all together, and slapping the music on top.
Interesting to find out what other users have managed to put together in PowerPoint over the years.
The mocks I've posted on here have all been made in PowerPoint, too.
They're far from perfect, and they're all a few years old as I haven't posted a mock here for a while now, but as a guide, here's a couple of GMB designs I put together:
1. Posted in April 2015
2. Poted in September 2018
You can make some high quality stuff in PowerPoint - you can achieve results a lot better than my work, I'm sure! It's all about spending time and getting to grips with what it can do and having the patience to see it through. You'd be surprised what can be achieved in a program often (semi-jokingly) derided on here.
Some of my older, simpler stuff was made using the Apple equivalent, Keynote:
This next one was an idea I never uploaded of what could be shown on the news anchor's backdrop on the 24h channel when there was no particular story being discussed/an interview. The red background was done in Final Cut, with all overlay animations/graphics added in Keynote:
I agree with the previous posters that PowerPoint, if used correctly, can be a fairly good design tool. For TVF, I've generally only used it to make background images for the screens in SketchUp sets. I think the best I ever managed was this...
I’m a huge fan of PowerPoint and thank you for posting this.
Oft-maligned, it’s sometimes the only thing people have on their PC that can lay out things in a clear manner with alignment tools and the like.
I’ve created graphics for professional webstreams at work and outside of work with it, and I’ve learned to accept its little idiosyncrasies and work around them.
Also good for mock-ups before you work in something else.
