Course duration
- 2 days
Course Benefits
- Get comfortable with the Animate CC user interface.
- Learn to work with Animate's drawing tools.
- Learn to work with Graphic Symbols and the Library.
- Learn to create basic and advanced animations in Animate.
- Learn to use Button Symbols in Animate.
Public expert-led online training from the convenience of your home, office or anywhere with an internet connection. Guaranteed to run .
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.
Course Outline
- Getting Started
- Starting Animate and Opening a File
- Getting to Know the Work Area
- Creating a New Document
- Using Workspaces
- Moving Panels
- Changing Workspaces
- Opening Existing Files
- Using the Properties Panel
- Undo
- Previewing Your Movie
- Publishing Your Movie
- Some Important Keyboard Shortcuts
- Exercise: Previewing Your Movie
- Working with Drawing Tools
- Drawing in Animate
- Using the Tools Panel
- Using the Drawing Tools
- Using the Animate Drawing Tools to Create Shapes
- Using Additional Tools
- Exercise: Use the Drawing Tools to Create a Logo
- Graphic Symbols and the Library
- Working with the Library Panel
- About Symbols
- Creating Symbols
- Editing and Managing Symbols
- Duplicating Symbols
- Swapping Symbols
- Changing the Size and Position of Instances
- Changing the Color Effect of Instances
- Create Graphic Symbols
- Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols for a Banner Ad
- Import to Stage / Import to Library
- Open Another Document's Library / Sharing
- Importing Illustrator Files
- Importing Photoshop Files
- Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols
- Basic Animation
- Understanding the Timeline
- Organizing Layers in a Timeline
- About Animation
- Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Adding Frames, Keyframes, and Blank Keyframes
- Animating Position: Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Changing the Pacing and Timing
- Animating Transparency
- Previewing the Animation
- Animation with a Motion Tween
- Exercise: Use Motion Tween to Animate Airplane
- Using Timelines to Create Movie Structure
- Understanding Our Project File
- Exercise: Build Site Structure on Timeline
- More with Animation
- Exercise: Improving Motion Tweens with Easing and Motion Presets
- Advanced Animation
- Copy and Paste Motion
- Creating Motion Presets
- Create Photo Gallery using Motion Presets
- Creating Masks
- Animating Masks
- Morphing with Shape Tweens
- Using Shape Hints
- Motion with Inverse Kinematics
- Constraining Joints
- Inverse Kinematics
- Inverse Kinematics with Shapes
- Button Symbols
- Creating Button Symbols
- Text-Only Buttons (Using the Hit State)
- Animated Buttons
- Exercise: Adding Buttons to the Web Site
- Using Sounds
- Movie Clip Symbols
- Creating Movie Clip Symbols
- Movie Clip Symbols vs. Graphic Symbols
- Using a Movie Clip to Store Animation
- Nesting Symbols
- Exercise: Creating Movie Clips
- Code Snippets in a Movie Clip
- Exercise: Using Code to Stop the Website
- Publishing Animate Documents
- Testing a Animate Document
- Publish Settings
- Exercise: Publishing
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.