Animating group components seperately from the group in powerpoint

Instead of grouping the objects to apply a single animation, animate on object, then use the Animation Painter tool to apply the same animation to other shape.

1. Animate a shape. While it's selected, choose Animations>Animation Painter.
2. Click on another shape. The animation is applied to the new shape.
3. Repeat for the other shapes that were grouped.

does kinda work but what i was going for was having 2 animations working at the same time, one which moves the group relative to everything, and one which moves certain objects in the group relative to the group position, that way I can just apply 1 Right moving animation to the group, 1 Up moving animation to one object within the group and 1 Down moving animation to another object within the group, that way when I set all three animations to start at the same time I get 2 objects moving up/down and right at the same time.

While you could do that by just making a linear animation of what the result path would have been, it gets a lot more complicated if, say, I have the group moving in a circle, and objects moving in another circle within that group

Yes, I understood that from your first post. But if shapes are grouped, the animation applies to the group, not a single member of the group. So you'll have to find a way to animate the shapes separately. And that's where the Animation Painter comes in, as it allows you to apply the same animation to multiple shapes. Then use Add Animation to add a subsidiary motion to each shape.