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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

Working with Symbols

As we saw in the previous section, Shape Tweens are only applicable to shape objects. They cannot be used on imported bitmap images, compound shape groups, or complex text objects. If you want to bring motion to these additional object types, you'll have to convert them into symbols and tween them using a Classic Tween or a Motion Tween.

We'll now have a look at some of the important topics having to do the various symbol types, including the differences between each type and methods for creating motion through the use of symbols.

Creating Symbols

A symbol in Animate is a special object that can be one of three types: Movie Clip, Button, or Graphic. Symbols exist within the Library panel project once created and are used by creating instances, which exist on the stage to be manipulated in various ways.

Symbols can be created through the Library panel by clicking the New Symbol button in the bottom-left corner of the Library panel or by choosing...