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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

Creating Custom In-App Tutorials

In this section, we’ll explore how to build in-app tutorials within Animate. These tutorials run within the application, highlighting tools and panels as the user works through them one step at a time.

Beginning with Animate 2020, Adobe began to ship a number of in-app tutorials within the software. While this began with a set of two introductory tutorials, the selection has now grown considerably larger and includes many tutorials of varying complexity.

Adobe-supplied tutorials can be activated under the Help menu by selecting a specific tutorial from the Hands-on Tutorial submenu:

Figure 13.1 – In-app tutorial selection

Figure 13.1 – In-app tutorial selection

These tutorials are meant to showcase certain techniques within the application in a way that is visual, engaging, and reliant upon the willful action of the user. They appear within the application directly, in the form of little card overlays on the application UI.

Card overlays...