Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Animate!
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. Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book 2024 Release contains 10 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the application. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
The 2024 release of Adobe Animate brings significant performance boosts through native Apple Silicon M1 and M2 support to unleash your productivity and creativity. A sleek new user interface delivers a consistent experience across Creative Cloud applications. Enhancements to animation controls and publishing options for SVG, WebGL, HTML5, animated GIFs, and HD broadcast video make Adobe Animate the continuing go-to choice for animation, multimedia, and interactive media.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the books 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 2024 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
- Review questions
- Review answers
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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
- Review questions
- Review answers
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3. Animating Symbols with Classic Tweens
- Getting started
- About animation
- Importing Photoshop assets
- Animating position
- Animating scale
- Animating multiple properties
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency
- Easing
- Animating filters
- Automatic rotations
- Creating a path for motion
- Creating nested animations
- Editing multiple frames
- Adding a 3D title
- Exporting your final movie
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Layer Parenting and Character Animation
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5. Animating with Modern Rigging
- Getting started
- What is modern rigging?
- Using the Asset Warp tool
- Editing your rig
- Animating your rig
- Organizing warped assets
- Editing warped assets
- Rigs with branching joints
- Warp options
- Propagating rig edits
- Single joints
- Using Flexi bones
- Making envelope deformations
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 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
- Using shape hints
- Changing the pace
- Easing a shape tween
- Creating and using masks
- Animating the mask or masked layers
- Previewing animations with onion skinning
- Shape tweening the fills of shapes
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 9. Inverse Kinematics with Bones
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10. Creating Interactive Media
- Getting started
- About interactive media
- 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
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Next steps
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book 2024 Release
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2024
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780138317720
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