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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

Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

In the previous chapter, we built an animated digital advertisement that targeted the native web and spent a lot of our energy focused on doing so through the use of Motion Tweens.

This chapter will focus on a newer animation technique for characters and any other complex jointed mechanisms known as Layer Parenting. We'll begin by exploring Advanced Layers mode and then examine how to design a hierarchical character rig by establishing parent-child relationships across multiple layers through the Layer Parenting workflow. We'll then delve into animation using Layer Parenting structures and learn how to add an additional flourish to our animation by adding audio and automated lip syncing.

After reading this chapter, you'll be able to do the following in Animate:

  • Understand the benefits and potential drawbacks of using Advanced Layers mode
  • Build a set of parent-child relationships across your layers...