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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

Summary

In this chapter, we began with an overall exploration of Advanced Layers mode and why we would want to use it over Basic Layers mode for various projects. Following that, we put Advanced Layers mode into practice by constructing a complex hierarchy of parent-child relationships using Layer Parenting. We also animated our newly created Layer Parenting rig through all the normal tweening mechanisms we've come to understand when animating symbol instances across the timeline. Finally, we added voice-based audio to our project and performed automatic lip syncing against that audio through a set of properly configured visemes and the Lip Syncing dialog.

In the next chapter, we will explore another type of rigging – Inverse Kinematics through the employment of armatures to be animated across various poses within an animated project.