This Adobe Animate training course is geared toward users who have no formal training with Animate and is ideal for digital and traditional designers looking to move further into the interactive realm, and is a great way for you to learn Animate.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the participant will create:
- Web banners, GIF animations
- Cartoons
- Web Layouts
- Interactive presentations
- Advertisements
WORKSPACE & WORKFLOW
- On the Stage
- The Tools panel
- Grids, guides and rulers
- Typekit Web fonts
- Timelines and Timeline layers
- Setting and setting Preferences
- Using panels
- Moving and copying
- Find and replace
- Undo, redo and History
- Keyboard shortcuts
DRAWING & COLOR
- Vector and bitmap graphics
- Paths, direction lines and points
- Merge Drawing mode
- Object Drawing mode
- Primitive objects
- Overlapping shapes
- Transforming and combining
- Adding color
- Strokes, fills and gradients
- Lines and shapes
- Arranging objects
SYMBOLS & LIBRARIES
- Graphic symbols
- Button symbols
- Movie clip symbols
- Creating and converting
- Duplicating and swapping
- Editing symbols
- Editing instances
- Working with libraries
- Sharing library assets
BASIC ANIMATION
- Motion tweens
- Classic tweens
- Inverse Kinematics
- Shape tweens
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Frame rates
- Identifying animations
- Frames, keyframes and timelines
- Tweened layers
- Animation guides
- Onion skinning
- Previewing animation
IMPORTING ARTWORK
- Supported import formats
- Importing vector files
- Importing bitmap files
- Import Options
- To Stage or To Library
- Pasting bitmap files
- Importing FXG files
- Loading artwork at runtime
BASIC INTERACTIVITY
- About Code Snippets
- Adding a code snippet to an object
- Adding a code snippet to a frame
- Adding new snippets
- Button symbols
- Movie clip buttons
- AS button components
- Button states
- Enabling, editing and testing buttons
Exporting & PUBLISHING
- Export vs. Publish
- Exporting SWFs
- Export file formats
- Publishing AS3 documents
- Using publish profiles
- Publish settings
- Publish Preview
- Publishing mobile content
- Mobile Content Simulator
SCENES & MASKS
- Pros and cons of scenes
- Controlling scene playback
- Role of Actionscript
- The Scene panel
- Adding and deleting scenes
- Renaming and reordering scenes
- Duplicating scenes
- About mask layers
- Creating mask layers
- Masking additional layers
- Unlinking masked layers
- Animated masked graphics
EFFECTS, FILTERS, TRANSFORMS
- Color effects
- Brghtness effect
- Tint effect
- Alpha effect
- Advanced effect
- Animated filters
- Applying and removing filters
- Saving filter presets
- Transforming objects
- Free Transform
- Envelope modifier
- Remove Transform
Audio & Video
- Event vs. stream sounds
- Importing sounds
- Sounds library
- Supported audio formats
- Adding a sound
- Editing sounds
- Deploying video
- Stream, download or embed
- FLV and F4V
- Video Import Wizard
- Controlling video playback
ADVANCED EXPORTING
- Converting to other formats
- Document Type Converter
- HTML5 Canvas
- Creating an HTML5 Canvas file
- Publishing animations to HTML5
- Optimizing HTML 5 Canvas output
- Exporting bitmaps as sprite sheets
- Migrating content to HTML5 Canvas
- Creating and publisghing to WebGL
- Packaging apps for AIR (iOS/Android)
