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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

Managing Workspaces and Panels

As we've seen, the Animate interface consists of a series of panels, arranged in specific configurations. These configurations are called Workspaces, and you can easily switch between them by using the workspace switcher. You can even configure and save your own custom workspaces!

We'll now see how to access and switch between workspaces in Animate, and also how to build your own.

Using the Default Workspaces

Animate comes with a number of preconfigured workspaces to choose from. As we saw earlier, depending upon your initial choices when first running Animate with a fresh installation, you will either be using the Essentials or the Basic workspaces.

You will find these default workspaces and more by activating the workspace switcher in the upper right-hand corner of the interface. Again, the icon looks like a tiny application window.

You initially have a choice between eight different workspaces:

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