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Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals - Second Edition

By : Joseph Labrecque
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Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals - Second Edition

By: Joseph Labrecque

Overview of this book

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walkthroughs of practical examples, this book will guide you in using Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium. We begin by getting up to speed with all that you need to know about Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you’ll explore 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 as the book demonstrates different ways to use Animate. Finally, it covers the different methods used to extend the software for various needs. By the end of this Adobe Animate book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic design materials, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting up to Speed
6
Section 2 – Animating with Diverse Techniques
13
Section 3 – Exploring Additional Platforms

Chapter 9: Manipulating Warped Objects through Advanced Rigging

In the previous chapter, we saw how to build complex Inverse Kinematics (IK) armatures and create fully animated figures using the tools and workflows present within the software. In this chapter, we will examine workflows associated with the Asset Warp tool and the creation and management of Warped Objects.

This chapter presents an introduction to the Asset Warp tool and how to use it to create Warped Objects out of our vector or bitmap-based artwork through the placement of pins. We'll also see how to manipulate these pins across time and create animation through tweening property differences between keyframes. We then explore more advanced uses for these workflows through modern rigging and the creation of rich armatures, with the ability to manipulate bones and joints as part of our Warped Objects. Finally, we'll perform animation with an armature that makes use of hard bones, soft bones, freeze joints...