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 does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchase of this book includes valuable online features. 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 (2021 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.
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
- Creating curves
- Using brushes
- Using gradient fills
- Using transparency to create depth
- About symbols
- Creating symbols
- Managing symbol instances
- Applying filters for special effects
- Creating and editing text
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Sharing your final project
- Collaborating with the Assets panel
- Review questions
- Review answers
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3. Animating Symbols
- Getting started
- About animation
- Understanding the project file
- Animating position
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency
- Animating filters
- Animating 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
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Advanced Motion Tweening
- 5. Character Animation with Tweens
- 6. Character Animation with Bones
- 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
- Changing the pace
- Adding more shape tweens
- Creating a looping animation
- Using shape hints
- Previewing animations with onion skinning
- Animating color
- Creating and using masks
- Animating the mask and masked layers
- Easing a shape tween
- Review questions
- Review answers
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9. Creating Interactive Navigation
- Getting started
- About interactive movies
- ActionScript and JavaScript
- Creating buttons
- Preparing the timeline
- Creating destination keyframes
- Navigating the Actions panel
- Adding JavaScript interactivity with the Actions panel wizard
- Creating a Home button
- Playing animation at the destination
- Animated buttons
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 10. Working with Sound and Video
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11. Publishing
- Understanding publishing
- Converting to HTML5 Canvas
- Publishing for HTML5
- Publishing a desktop application
- Publishing with VR 360 documents
- VR Panorama and VR 360 documents
- Creating a texture layer
- Adding graphics and animation to a VR document
- Publishing to mobile devices
- Next steps
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2021
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780136887454
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