Creating Social Content with Adobe Animate CC
1h 32mIntermediate2019-07-18
Authors

Joseph Labrecque
University Professor, Adobe Educator, Studio Head
Course details
Feeling like your social media game is less than inspired? In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate to create unique, eye-catching social content that you can easily repurpose and share across a variety of social networking platforms. Instructor Joseph Labrecque shows how to create simple design assets and animate them using the robust tweening system within Animate. Along the way, he shares tips for ensuring that your content can be easily adapted for use on different platforms. He then steps through how to export still images, animated GIFs, and videos; adapt your Animate content for use in social profiles; and post your work on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using each platform's recommended settings.
Learning objectives
Drawing and animating content in Animate
Encapsulating animations as symbols
Exporting still images, GIFs, and videos
Adapting your Animate content for social profiles
Modifying and posting content on various platforms
Learning objectives
Drawing and animating content in Animate
Encapsulating animations as symbols
Exporting still images, GIFs, and videos
Adapting your Animate content for social profiles
Modifying and posting content on various platforms
Skills covered
Adobe AnimateInteractive Web ContentWeb GraphicsWeb DesignAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Build content for social media platforms with Adobe Animate CC
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - About the exercise files
1. Creating and Animating Your Content
- 04 - Considerations for social content
- 05 - Preparing a new document
- 06 - Drawing simple shapes
- 07 - Drawing complex shapes
- 08 - Working with text and symbols
- 09 - Animating content
- 10 - Completing the animation
- 11 - Animation encapsulation
2. Exporting Your Animations
- 12 - Exporting vs. publishing documents
- 13 - Exporting still images
- 14 - Exporting animated images
- 15 - Exporting video for social platforms
3. Preparing Your Social Profiles
- 16 - LinkedIn personal background
- 17 - Twitter header
- 18 - Facebook cover
4. Preparing Shared Content
- 19 - LinkedIn shared content
- 20 - Twitter shared content
- 21 - Facebook shared content
- 22 - Instagram posts
Conclusion
- 23 - Further information