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Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

By : Joseph Labrecque
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

By: Joseph Labrecque

Overview of this book

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and hands-on walkthroughs, this book shows you how to use Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium. You will begin by getting up to speed with what you need to know about Adobe Animate quickly. Next, you will learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in the most recent version of the software. Moving on, you'll consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you’ll delve into advanced rigging techniques and discover how to create more dynamic animation with advanced depth and movement techniques. You’ll also find out how to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, and apps for various platforms. The book concludes with an examination of different methods used to extend the software for various needs. By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion design materials and animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces - all while targeting a variety of platforms including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed
6
Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques
12
Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

Adding Additional Content

As we saw in the previous sections, the simple act of importing properly generated photographs as textures within a virtual reality document goes quite far in establishing our VR environment. This is Adobe Animate though and we are able to add additional objects to our scene to be used for the purposes of interactivity and animation!

We'll first set up some additional objects to eventually be used to move between the Park and Pond scenes in the form of 3D rendered signage. Then, we'll get playful and add a small character drawing that can be animated using one of the most powerful creative motion tools in Animate – the Asset Warp tool.

Importing Transparent 3D Renders

Recall that we have two scenes established for our virtual reality experience: Park and Pond. We ultimately want the user to be able to locate a sign within each scene that directs them to the other scene. Clicking a sign will transport the user to the other scene....