Course description
This two-day course is designed to provide users of Adobe Animate with an excellent grounding in this immensely powerful desktop publishing program.
A further two-day Advanced Adobe Animate course is recommended for those who need to use Adobe Animate’s drawing, image editing and graphics features in depth. In this introductory course you will learn how to produce professional documentation ranging from single page newsletters to highly sophisticated magazine layouts.
The course covers all the major page layout and text handling features in Adobe Animate and highlights time-saving shortcuts and hints and tips from Adobe animate professionals.
The course covers setting up page layouts from scratch, editing existing page layouts, working with templates, using text management features, making use of styles and master pages to save production time, working with colour, importing graphics and images, creating tables, using layers and preparing your project for print.
DAY ONE
Animate essentials
• The Adobe Animate interface
• Syncing settings in Animate CC
• Creating a new Animate document
• Setting stage dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Custom panel sets
• Identifying the development cycle
Vectors and bitmaps
• Object and shape draw modes
• Vector draw tools
• Alignment
• Rules, guides and grid
• Working with layers
• Masking techniques
• Gradient colours
• Importing and saving swatches
• Deco tool and custom presets
• Importing bitmaps
• Importing from Photoshop and Illustrator
Using text effectively
• Using the text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Anti-alias options
• Font properties
• Using threaded text boxes
• Working with text overflows
• Text effects and filters
• Creating multiple text columns
• Static, input and dynamic text
• Embedded vs device fonts
DAY TWO
Creating animations
• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes and frames
• Cell animation
• Shape tweens
• Classic tweens and Motion tweens
• Easing
Motion editor essentials
• Custom eases
• Symbols: graphic, MovieClip and button
• Library best practice
• The 3D rotation tool
• The 3D translation tool
Adding sound and video
• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a timeline
• Embedding video in a timeline
• The FLVPlayback component
Interactivity
• About ActionScript
• Applying Actions with Code Snippets
• Frame labels
• Create linear navigation
• Loading external SWF’s
• Exploring Code Snippets
Publishing and testing
• Exporting from Animate as .mov video
• Exporting Sprite Sheets for CSS integration from Animate
• Exporting animations to the HTML5 canvas tag with the Create JS Toolkit extension
• Exploring swf compression for Actionscript 3 and vector graphics
• Exploring AIR runtime support for IOS, Android and desktop
• Real time testing for mobile devices
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