Adobe Animate Creative Cloud (CC) Training

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Course duration

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.
Available Delivery Methods
Public Class
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Private Class
Private classes are delivered for groups at your offices or a location of your choice.
Self-Paced
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.

Course Outline

  1. Getting Started
    1. Starting Animate and Opening a File
    2. Getting to Know the Work Area
    3. Creating a New Document
    4. Using Workspaces
    5. Moving Panels
    6. Changing Workspaces
    7. Opening Existing Files
    8. Using the Properties Panel
    9. Undo
    10. Previewing Your Movie
    11. Publishing Your Movie
    12. Some Important Keyboard Shortcuts
    13. Exercise: Previewing Your Movie
  2. Working with Drawing Tools
    1. Drawing in Animate
    2. Using the Tools Panel
    3. Using the Drawing Tools
    4. Using the Animate Drawing Tools to Create Shapes
    5. Using Additional Tools
    6. Exercise: Use the Drawing Tools to Create a Logo
  3. Graphic Symbols and the Library
    1. Working with the Library Panel
    2. About Symbols
    3. Creating Symbols
    4. Editing and Managing Symbols
    5. Duplicating Symbols
    6. Swapping Symbols
    7. Changing the Size and Position of Instances
    8. Changing the Color Effect of Instances
    9. Create Graphic Symbols
    10. Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols for a Banner Ad
    11. Import to Stage / Import to Library
    12. Open Another Document's Library / Sharing
    13. Importing Illustrator Files
    14. Importing Photoshop Files
    15. Exercise: Create Graphic Symbols
  4. Basic Animation
    1. Understanding the Timeline
    2. Organizing Layers in a Timeline
    3. About Animation
    4. Frame-by-Frame Animation
    5. Adding Frames, Keyframes, and Blank Keyframes
    6. Animating Position: Frame-by-Frame Animation
    7. Changing the Pacing and Timing
    8. Animating Transparency
    9. Previewing the Animation
    10. Animation with a Motion Tween
    11. Exercise: Use Motion Tween to Animate Airplane
    12. Using Timelines to Create Movie Structure
    13. Understanding Our Project File
    14. Exercise: Build Site Structure on Timeline
    15. More with Animation
    16. Exercise: Improving Motion Tweens with Easing and Motion Presets
  5. Advanced Animation
    1. Copy and Paste Motion
    2. Creating Motion Presets
    3. Create Photo Gallery using Motion Presets
    4. Creating Masks
    5. Animating Masks
    6. Morphing with Shape Tweens
    7. Using Shape Hints
    8. Motion with Inverse Kinematics
    9. Constraining Joints
    10. Inverse Kinematics
    11. Inverse Kinematics with Shapes
  6. Button Symbols
    1. Creating Button Symbols
    2. Text-Only Buttons (Using the Hit State)
    3. Animated Buttons
    4. Exercise: Adding Buttons to the Web Site
    5. Using Sounds
  7. Movie Clip Symbols
    1. Creating Movie Clip Symbols
    2. Movie Clip Symbols vs. Graphic Symbols
    3. Using a Movie Clip to Store Animation
    4. Nesting Symbols
    5. Exercise: Creating Movie Clips
    6. Code Snippets in a Movie Clip
    7. Exercise: Using Code to Stop the Website
  8. Publishing Animate Documents
    1. Testing a Animate Document
    2. Publish Settings
    3. Exercise: Publishing

Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

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