Adobe Animate Essential Training

Introduction

• Animating media with Adobe Animate
• Using the exercise files

1. New Features in Animate: October 2023

• Rebuilt for native Apple Silicon M1/M2
• Updated interface with Adobe Spectrum v7
• Reset warped object pins
• Stability improvements

2. New Features in Animate: October 2022

• Rigging with Flexi Bones
• Editing a warped object rig
• Editing warped object contents
• Envelope deformers
• Vector warping improvements

3. Getting Started with Animate

• Choosing a document type
• Modifying document settings
• Saving your Animate document
• Managing Animate preferences
• Working with assets
• Managing Timeline layers
• Extending the Timeline with frames
• Using keyframes
• Previewing your animation
• Sharing your animation

4. Animating Original Content

• Creating a document for animation
• Drawing with shapes
• Managing color
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Manipulating paths
• Drawing with the Fluid brush
• Drawing with vector art brushes
• Frame-by-frame animation
• Animating with shape tweens
• Using onion skinning
• Masking your content

5. Additional Animation Concepts

• Generating static text
• Animating with classic tweens
• Designing nested animation
• Controlling graphic symbols
• Using movie clip symbols
• Animating with motion tweens
• Animating with the camera

6. Building Interactive Animations

• Converting your document
• Importing external images
• Creating button symbols
• Using sound in the Timeline
• Providing instance names
• Making it interactive
• Publishing your animation

Conclusion

• Goodbye