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Mastering Adobe Animate 2023 - Third Edition

By : Joseph Labrecque
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Animate 2023 - Third Edition

By: Joseph Labrecque

Overview of this book

Adobe Animate is a platform-agnostic asset creation application that enables you to create motion design and vector animations while facilitating interactivity across other Adobe software such as After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This book comes packed with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walk-throughs of practical examples, guiding you in using Animate to create immersive experiences and breaking the walls of creative limitations. In this third edition, you’ll begin by getting up to speed with the features of Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to set up Animate as a creative platform and explore the enhancements introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for different platforms through the publish and export workflows. You'll explore advanced rigging workflows and discover how to create more dynamic animations with complex depth and movement techniques. As the book demonstrates different ways of channeling your creativity through Animate, you'll be able to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, generative art, and apps for various platforms. Finally, this graphic design book covers the different methods used to extend the software to meet various user requirements. By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic designs, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Up to Speed
5
Part 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques
11
Part 3: Exploring Additional Capabilities

Animating a Spooky Tree with Modern Rigging

In this section, we are going to put everything we know about modern rigging to use by building a complex set of armatures using all three bone types available in Animate 2023. We will begin with a starter file that contains only static artwork arranged into layers that is ready to begin working with.

Note

The gnarly tree assets that we will use in this section can be downloaded from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Adobe-Animate-2023-Third-Edition.

Open the SpookyTree.fla file to get started:

Figure 8.14 – The Spooky Tree starter file

Figure 8.14 – The Spooky Tree starter file

There are four layers present—one for the background elements, one for the pole, another for the flag, and the top layer contains our tree asset. The file is a 16:9 resolution at 1920 x 1080 and includes no animated content whatsoever. The frame rate is set to 30 FPS.

We will be creating a series of complex armatures for the tree, rope swing...