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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

Writing Code for Virtual Reality Interactions

As we've seen in previous chapters, there are several different approaches to writing code in Animate. When we programmed our small game in Chapter 11, Developing Web-Based Games, we did so by writing our JavaScript directly into the script editor of the Actions panel. For other projects, such as the clickable advertisement in Chapter 6, Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web, we used the Actions Wizard area to guide us.

Unlike coding within HTML5 Canvas documents, we cannot leverage CreateJS for our VR project. Even though all web-based document types in Animate use JavaScript as the programming language, the WebGL glTF and VR document types within Animate use a completely different library from what we've seen previously. This is a WebGL-based runtime library that Adobe has created specifically for these document types. Thankfully, though, the Actions Wizard area supports this runtime, so it is fairly easy to work with...