Beginning Adobe Animate CC: Learn to Efficiently Create and Deploy Animated and Interactive Content

© Tom Green and Joseph Labrecque 2017

TOM GREEN and Joseph Labrecque, Beginning Adobe Animate CC, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2376-5_7

7. Animation

Tom Green¹  and Joseph Labrecque²

(1)OAKVILLE, Ontario, Canada

(2)Thornton, Colorado, USA

Ah, animation! Where would we be without the likes of Disney, Warner Bros., Walter Lanz, Hanna-Barbera, and dozens more like them? For many people, animation is the reason to get involved with Animate CC as a creative outlet. This makes perfect sense, because Animate CC began life more than a decade ago as an animation tool. Supplemental features like ActionScript, JavaScript, XML parsing, and video integration—every one of which is a tremendous addition—all followed. What hasn’t changed in all these years is Animate CC’s increasingly ...