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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

Exploring the Animate interface

While Adobe does perform an interface refresh every 5 years or so on most of its creative software, many of the various panels and tools within Animate should be easily recognizable to those who have only had experience with Adobe Flash Professional or even Macromedia Flash. Animate has long been admired for the general workflows within the application and it would be a shame to break a good experience!

Note

Of course, that is not to say that the Animate UI hasn't changed and improved over the years. In fact, the 2020 version of Animate saw a complete interface refresh that was tweaked and improved upon for Animate 2021 and somewhat for Animate 2022 as well.

We'll now look over some of the more persistent interface elements that are part of any Animate workspace, no matter what type of project you are working on.

Important User Interface Elements

While it is absolutely true that the Animate interface can be customized to...