Adobe Animate: Essentials

Discover how to add movement to infographics, create eye-catching digital ads, or animate avatars and doodles for a memorable impact. With Adobe Animate, you can publish projects across multiple platforms, reaching viewers on any screen. Perfect for business professionals, freelancers, and creatives, this course provides the skills to captivate any audience and make your content unforgettable.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Navigate the Adobe Animate workspace and use core tools and panels.
• Create graphics and text, making use of strokes, fills, brushes, and gradient effects.
• Apply animation techniques, from simple tweens to advanced motion editing.
• Build character animations with layers, bones, and deformations.
• Publish animations to a variety of formats, including HTML5, desktop, mobile, and VR.

Who Is This Course For?

This course is ideal for:

• Beginners to Adobe Creative Cloud who want to dive into animation.
• Designers with experience in other Adobe packages looking to expand into Animate.
• Educators and marketers interested in adding interactive animations to their content.

Prerequisites: Basic PC and Windows skills are required; no prior experience with Adobe is necessary.

Course Outline

Getting Accustomed to Animate

• Getting to know the workspace

• Working with the Library and Timeline Panel

• Organising layers in a timeline

• Using the Properties panel

• Using the Tools panel

• Adding layer effects

• Undoing steps in Animate

• Previewing, exporting, and saving your movie

• Modifying the content and Stage

Creating Graphics and Text

• Understanding strokes and fills

• Creating and editing shapes

• Making selections

• Using variable-width strokes

• Creating curves

• Using brushes

• Using gradient fills and transparency

• Creating symbols and managing instances

• Applying filters for special effects

• Creating and editing text

• Aligning and distributing objects

How to Animate Symbols

• About animation, animating position

• Understanding the project file

• Changing the pacing and timing

• Animating transparency, filters, transformations

• Editing multiple frames

• Changing the path of the motion

• Swapping tween targets

• Creating nested animations

• Easing

• Frame-by-frame animation

• Animating 3D motion

• Exporting your final movie

Create Advanced Motion Tweening

• Understanding the project file

• Adding motion tweens

• Editing property curves

• Viewing options for the Motion Editor

• Copying and pasting curves

• Adding complex eases

Build Character Animation with Tweens

• Layer parenting

• Using classic tweens

• Making and animating deformations

• Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue

Generate Character Animation with Bones

• Character animation with inverse kinematics

• Creating the pedalling cycle

• Disabling and constraining joints

• Adding poses

• Inverse kinematics with shapes

• Simulating physics with springiness

• Tweening automatic rotations

• Using Rig mapping