Book description
Develop creative animation and multimedia using Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:
Harness controls for animation including puppet warping, layer parenting, and paint brush preferences and symbol options
Use the revamped Asset Warp tool for a modern rigging approach to animating shapes and bitmap images
Work with a more robust set of playback options for graphic symbols that provide total control over looping
Quickly publish to social media channels with support for SVG, WebGL, HTML5, animated GIFs, and HD video
Seamlessly collaborate through Adobe Creative Cloud
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program doesan official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step
What you need to use this book: Adobe Animate (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Animate software.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Getting Started
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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
- Organizing layers in a timeline
- Using the Properties panel
- Using the Tools panel
- Adding layer effects
- Undoing steps in Animate
- Previewing and exporting your movie
- Modifying the content and Stage
- Saving your movie
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2. Creating Graphics and Text
- Getting started
- Understanding strokes and fills
- Creating shapes
- Making selections
- Editing shapes
- Using variable-width strokes
- Organizing your drawing
- Using brushes
- Creating curves
- Using brush mode options
- About symbols
- Creating symbols
- Managing symbol instances
- Using gradient fills
- Using transparency to create depth
- Applying filters and color effects
- Creating and editing text
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Sharing your final project
- Collaborating via the Assets panel
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3. Animating Symbols with Classic Tweens
- Getting started
- About animation
- Understanding the project file
- Animating position
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency
- Animating filters
- Animating transformations
- Editing multiple frames
- Creating a path for motion
- Easing
- Creating nested animations
- Adding a 3D title
- Exporting your final movie
- 4. Layer Parenting and Character Animation
- 5. Animating with Modern Rigging
- 6. Animating Symbols with Motion Tweens
- 7. Animating the Camera
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8. Animating Shapes and Using Masks
- Getting started
- 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
- 9. Inverse Kinematics with Bones
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10. Creating Interactive Navigation
- Getting started
- 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 the “Shop now” button
- Playing animation at the destination
- Animated buttons
- Next steps
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2023 Release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2023
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780137982455
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