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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

Animating with Classic Tweens

When animating with symbol instances, you have two tween options available to you: Classic Tweens and Motion Tweens. Both of these tweening types work differently from one another, but a Classic Tween is handled more similarly to what we saw when using a Shape Tween earlier in this chapter, so we'll examine that first. Motion guides will be explored as part of Chapter 6, Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web.

We'll now step through the process of animating a symbol instance with a Classic Tween:

  1. The first thing you need to do is start a new document. I'm going to create a new ActionScript 3.0 document and set the width to 1280 and the height to 720, with an FPS setting of 30.
  2. Rename your default Layer_1 layer to something appropriate to the content you intend to create. I've renamed mine Square.
  3. The contents of our symbol should be pretty simple for this exercise. I'm going to use a square shape, similar in...