Adobe Animate Essential Training

Course details

Discover how to use Adobe Animate—the multimedia drawing, layout, animation, and interactive design application—to create rich, expressive animations and interactive content. Instructor Joseph Labrecque covers what you need to know to get up and running with this powerful application, discussing how to create a basic Animate project, work with ready-to-use assets, and share your work. He also covers how to animate original content, including how to improve the look of your assets using color management tools and bring your assets to life using shape, classic, and motion tweens. Plus, learn how to take your animations to the next level by incorporating sound and adding common interactions.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Animating media with Adobe Animate
02 - Using the exercise files

1. New Features in Animate - October 2023

03 - Rebuilt for native Apple Silicon M1 M2
04 - Updated interface with Adobe Spectrum v7
05 - Reset warped object pins
06 - Stability improvements

2. New Features in Animate - October 2022

07 - Rigging with Flexi Bones
08 - Editing a warped object rig
09 - Editing warped object contents
10 - Envelope deformers
11 - Vector warping improvements

3. Getting Started with Animate

12 - Choosing a document type
13 - Modifying document settings
14 - Saving your Animate document
15 - Managing Animate preferences
16 - Working with assets
17 - Managing Timeline layers
18 - Extending the Timeline with frames
19 - Using keyframes
20 - Previewing your animation
21 - Sharing your animation

4. Animating Original Content

22 - Creating a document for animation
23 - Drawing with shapes
24 - Managing color
25 - Drawing with the Pen tool
26 - Manipulating paths
27 - Drawing with the Fluid brush
28 - Drawing with vector art brushes
29 - Frame-by-frame animation
30 - Animating with shape tweens
31 - Using onion skinning
32 - Masking your content

5. Additional Animation Concepts

33 - Generating static text
34 - Animating with classic tweens
35 - Designing nested animation
36 - Controlling graphic symbols
37 - Using movie clip symbols
38 - Animating with motion tweens
39 - Animating with the camera

6. Building Interactive Animations

40 - Converting your document
41 - Importing external images
42 - Creating button symbols
43 - Using sound in the Timeline
44 - Providing instance names
45 - Making it interactive
46 - Publishing your animation

Conclusion

47 - Goodbye

Adobe Animate Essential Training

Authors

Joseph Labrecque