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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

Exploring the Adobe Integrated Runtime

Adobe AIR was a major component of what used to be called the Flash Platform. It was one of two runtimes for the platform – and while AIR is certainly more powerful than its sister runtime, Flash Player, it is perhaps even more misunderstood. People generally understand web browsers and their capabilities and uses, but an installable package that runs similar to a native application on desktop and mobile such as AIR is somehow more difficult for the average person to get a handle on.

There is a lot to cover when it comes to AIR. We’ll begin our overview with a look at a general explanation of what AIR is and its relationship to other technologies, such as the ActionScript language. An explanation of the relationship between the two AIR Software Development Kit (SDK) providers will follow as we go over recent partnerships between Adobe and HARMAN (a Samsung company) shortly after this introduction. To wrap things up, we’...