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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

Understanding and Manipulating Layer Depth

In this section, we are going to learn how to manipulate the depth of layers within an Animate project. While panning and zooming the camera can be very effective, we can enhance everything we do with the camera by using another feature of Advanced Layers mode in the form of Layer Depth. This feature allows us to place specific layers closer or farther from each other and the camera to simulate a difference of depth across each. The result is that as the camera changes property setting values across time, the view shifts across the variety of depth settings, providing a feeling of enhanced immersion.

Let's explore the mechanism that allows us to adjust the depth settings of our various layers. Then, we'll use it to modify the depth of the layers that are currently within our project.

Activating the Layer Depth Panel

By default, the Layer Depth panel is visible in the Essentials workspace area, minimized to the icon view...