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For my (beamer) presentation (relating to airplanes) I want an animation of an airplane. I was hoping there would be a way for the airplane to move across the screen (or any other motion will do as well ). For instance, see 09:45 in this video moving airplane in powerpoint The airplane can look like this , feel free to include any image of airplane.

This is all I have right now (a simple image of airplane in beamer template)

 documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

        usepackage{fontawesome}

        mode<presentation>

        {usetheme{Singapore}

        setbeamercovered{transparent}

        }

    usepackage[english]{babel}

    title{Beamer Example}

    author{Author}

    subject{Presentation Programs} 

    institute[ University]{

        Department of XZ\

         University}        

    begin{document}        

        section{Outline}               

        frame[label=exampleframe]{

            frametitle{Example}                

            faPlane            

        }           

    end{document}

Example using Fontawesome plane (click on the image to see animation):

documentclass{beamer}



%documentclass[dvisvgm,preview]{standalone} % dvisvgm --zoom=-1 --bbox=preview



usepackage{fontawesome}

usepackage{tikz,animate}



begin{document}

begin{frame}{Move along path}

%begin{preview}%

  begin{animateinline}[autoplay,loop,controls]{24}

    multiframe{160}{rAng=110+-0.25,rSlpe=-25+-0.25}{%

      begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.85]

      useasboundingbox[shift={(-1,0)}] (110:15) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] -- ++(2,0) -- ++(0,-0.5);

      draw (110:15) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15];

      node[rotate=rSlpe, at=(rAng:15),inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt] {makebox[0pt]{faPlane}};

    end{tikzpicture}}

  end{animateinline}%

%end{preview}

end{frame}

end{document}

With decorations.markings you can transport the plane along any path and it will always be rotated to be a tangent of the path (without you having to do that manually).

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

usepackage{fontawesome}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

 setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,calc}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

     University}        

newcountmyangle    

begin{document}        

section{Outline}               

begin{frame}[t]

frametitle{Example}

transduration{4}

animate<2-21>

animatevalue<2-21>{myangle}{0}{19}



begin{tikzpicture}

tikzset{pics/.cd,

plane/.style={code={fill (-0.6,0.2) -- (-0.5,0) -- (-0.6,-0.2)

-- (-0.4,-0.2) -- (-0.3,-0.1)-- (-0.1,-0.15) -- (-0.2,-0.5) -- (00.05,-0.5)

-- (0.15,-0.2) to[out=0,in=-90] (0.5,0) to[out=90,in=180]  (0.15,0.2)

-- (00.05,0.5) -- (-0.2,0.5) -- (-0.1,0.15) -- (-0.3,0.1) -- (-0.4,0.2); }}}

path[use as bounding box] (-5.5,-4.5) rectangle (2.5,3.5);

draw[postaction={decorate,decoration={markings,

mark=at position myangle/20 with {path let p1=($(current bounding

box.east)-(current bounding box.west)$),

n1={-atan2(y1,x1)} in  pic[rotate=n1]{plane};}}}] (-5,0) to (2,0) arc(90:-180:2)

--++(0,5);

end{tikzpicture}

end{frame}

end{document}

This uses the beamer built-in animation facilities (as in Hafid's answer), but can be combined with animateinline (see Raaja's answer and AlexG's answer).

The animated gif was created via

 convert -density 300 -delay 34 -loop 0 -alpha remove multipage.pdf animated.gif

as explained in this great answer.

Or a 3D like version where the plane flies out of the beamer plane. (Before giving the presentation, please contact the organizers for a safety briefing. ;-)

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

 setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,calc}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

     University}        

newcountmydist     

begin{document}        

section{Outline}               

begin{frame}[t]

frametitle{Example}

transduration{4}

animate<2-22>

animatevalue<2-22>{mydist}{0}{20}



begin{tikzpicture}

tikzset{pics/.cd,

plane/.style={code={fill (-0.6,0.2) -- (-0.5,0) -- (-0.6,-0.2)

-- (-0.4,-0.2) -- (-0.3,-0.1)-- (-0.1,-0.15) -- (-0.2,-0.5) -- (00.05,-0.5)

-- (0.15,-0.2) to[out=0,in=-90] (0.5,0) to[out=90,in=180]  (0.15,0.2)

-- (00.05,0.5) -- (-0.2,0.5) -- (-0.1,0.15) -- (-0.3,0.1) -- (-0.4,0.2); }}}

path[use as bounding box] (-5.25,-4.5) rectangle (2.25,3.5);

draw[postaction={decorate,decoration={markings,

mark=at position mydist/20 with {path let p1=($(current bounding

box.east)-(current bounding box.west)$),

n1={-atan2(y1,x1)} in  (0,0)

pic[rotate=n1,scale={0.3+0.7*sin(9*mydist)},gray!20]{plane}

(${0.01+0.04*sin(9*mydist)}*($(current bounding

box.north east)-(current bounding box.south west)$)$)

pic[rotate=n1,scale={0.3+0.7*sin(9*mydist)}]{plane};}}}] (-5,0) to (2,0) arc(90:-180:2)

--++(0,5);

end{tikzpicture}

end{frame}

end{document}

A starting point for your pursuit:

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

usepackage{fontawesome}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

    setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

    University}        



%% you need these

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{positioning, arrows}

usepackage{animate}



begin{document}        

    section{Outline}               

    frame[label=exampleframe]{

        frametitle{Example}                

        faPlane            

    }           



begin{frame}[c]



begin{center}

    pgfmathtruncatemacroN{10}



begin{animateinline}[autoplay]{5} 

    multiframe{6}{iPosition=0+1}{

        begin{tikzpicture}

        node[circle,draw=black] (t1) at (0,0) {};

        node (tx) at (iPosition,0) {rotatebox{-45}{faPlane}};

        draw[-]  (t1.center) -- (tx.center);

        node[circle,draw=black] (t2) at (5,0) {};

        end{tikzpicture}

    }

end{animateinline}

end{center}



end{frame}

end{document}

PS With @marmot's suggestion:

Another solution using animate command provided by the beamer package

    documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

        usepackage{fontawesome}

        usepackage{tikz}

        mode<presentation>

        {usetheme{Singapore}

        setbeamercovered{transparent}

        }

    usepackage[english]{babel}

    title{Beamer Example}

    author{Author}

    subject{Presentation Programs} 

    institute[ University]{

        Department of XZ\

         University}        

    begin{document}        

        section{Outline}               

        frame[label=exampleframe]{

            frametitle{Example} 

            See the plane flying

            newcountp

            animate<2-10>

            animatevalue<2-10>{p}{0}{100}

            begin{tikzpicture}

            path(0,0)rectangle(0.75paperwidth,-0.75paperheight);

            path[draw](0,0)..controls +(30:2) and +(40:2)..+(4,-1) node [pos=p/100,sloped,rotate=-45,allow upside down]{faPlane};



            end{tikzpicture}

        }           

    end{document}