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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need Adobe Animate 2023 or a later version installed on a compatible macOS or Windows computer in order to effectively follow along with this book. A full Adobe Creative Cloud subscription is the most beneficial way of doing this, as you’ll get access to the Adobe Fonts service we use in certain projects and will have additional access to useful software such as Photoshop, Fresco, and Dimension or Substance 3D Stager to create content for use within your Animate projects. For the web-based projects in this book, an up-to-date web browser is highly recommended as well.

Software covered in the book

OS requirements

Adobe Animate 2023

Windows or macOS

Web browser

Windows or macOS

Also, refer to the Animate System Requirements page for specific hardware and software specifications: https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/system-requirements.html.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.