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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

Customizing the Tools and Timeline Panels

Both the Tools and Timeline panel customizations are relatively new to Animate but are absolutely required, with more tools and features being added in these areas. You can now keep your most frequently used tools in both the Tools and Timeline panels ready for immediate access instead of being hidden or grouped beneath other tools. It's completely under your control!

Customizing the Tools Panel

As of the time of writing, the Animate Tools panel consists of 37 individual tools— a lot to fit on one tiny panel! As a result of this, older versions of Animate would have many of these tools grouped together, making them difficult to locate. In newer versions of Animate, we can now hide any tools that we do not often use and can make individual decisions regarding whether to group tools together:

  1. To edit your Tools panel, look at the bottom area of the panel and locate the Edit Toolbar… button. It appears as a small...