Animate Fundamentals: An Introduction to Animate

Course Overview

Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted

• 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

Lesson 2: Creating Graphics and Text

• 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

Lesson 3: Animating Symbols

• 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

Lesson 4: Advanced Motion Tweening

• 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

Lesson 5: Character Animation with Tweens

• Layer parenting
• Using classic tweens
• Making and animating deformations
• Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue

Lesson 6: Controlling the Camera

• Animating camera moves
• Getting started
• Using the camera
• Creating depth
• Attaching layers to the camera for fixed graphics
• Exporting your final movie

Lesson 7: Animating Shapes and Using Masks

• 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

Lesson 8: Creating Interactive Navigation

• 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

Lesson 9: Creating Virtual Reality Environments

• 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

Lesson 10: Working with Sound and Video

• 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

Lesson 11: Publishing

• Understanding publishing
• Converting to HTML5 Canvas
• Publishing for HTML5
• Publishing a desktop application
• Publishing to mobile devices

Prerequisites

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows skills.
• Adobe Photoshop CC - Introduction class or equivalent experience is recommended.