Adobe Creative & Document Cloud
Animate Fundamentals: An Introduction to Animate
Bring graphics to life with Adobe Animate.
2 daysFoundation11 modules
About this course
Bring graphics to life with Adobe Animate. You will draw and animate symbols, use motion and shape tweens, animate simple characters, control a virtual camera, add interactive navigation and publish your work to HTML5 for the web.
Curriculum
11 modules
- Starting Adobe Animate and opening a file
- Understanding document types and creating a new document
- Getting to know the workspace
- Working with the Library panel
- Understanding the Timeline panel
- Using the Properties panel
- Using the Tools panel
- Adding layer effects
- Undoing steps in Animate
- Previewing your movie
- Modifying the content and Stage
- Saving your movie
- Understanding strokes and fills
- Creating shapes
- Making selections
- Editing shapes
- Using gradient fills
- Using variable-width strokes
- Using swatches and tagged swatches
- Creating curves
- Using transparency to create depth
- Being expressive with the Fluid Brush and custom brushes
- Creating and editing text
- Aligning and distributing objects
- About symbols
- Creating symbols
- Managing symbol instances
- Applying filters for special effects
- Converting and exporting art
- About animation
- Understanding the project file
- Animating position
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency
- Animating filters
- Animating transformations
- Editing multiple frames
- Changing the path of the motion
- Swapping tween targets
- Creating nested animations
- Easing
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Animating 3D motion
- Exporting your final movie
- About the Motion Editor
- Understanding the project file
- Adding motion tweens
- Editing property curves
- Viewing options for the Motion Editor
- Copying and pasting curves
- Adding complex eases
- Layer parenting
- Using classic tweens
- Making and animating deformations
- Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue
- Animating camera moves
- Getting started
- Using the camera
- Creating depth
- Attaching layers to the camera for fixed graphics
- Exporting your final movie
- Animating shapes
- Understanding the project file
- Creating a shape tween
- Changing the pace
- Adding more shape tweens
- Creating a looping animation
- Using shape hints
- Previewing animations with onion skinning
- Animating color
- Creating and using masks
- Animating the mask and masked layers
- Easing a shape tween
- About interactive movies
- ActionScript and JavaScript
- Creating buttons
- Preparing the timeline
- Creating destination keyframes
- Navigating the Actions panel
- Adding JavaScript interactivity with the Actions panel wizard
- Creating a Home button
- Playing animation at the destination
- Animated buttons
- About virtual reality
- VR Panorama and VR 360 documents
- Creating a texture layer
- Creating new scenes
- Adding interactivity
- Adding graphics and animation
- Moving the camera position
- Publishing VR projects
- Understanding the project file
- Using sounds
- Understanding video
- Using Adobe Media Encoder CC
- Understanding encoding options
- Playback of external video in your project
- Adding a video without playback controls
- Understanding publishing
- Converting to HTML5 Canvas
- Publishing for HTML5
- Publishing a desktop application
- Publishing to mobile devices
Who it's for
Designers, educators and marketers who want to create animated banners, explainers and interactive content.
Before you start
- Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows skills.
- Adobe Photoshop CC - Introduction class or equivalent experience is recommended.
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