Adobe Animate - Introduction

Animate Jumpstart

• Introducing Animate
• Understanding Animate file types
• Creating and setting up a new document
• Saving an Animate document
• Using the Animate workspace
• Working on the stage
• Accessing Animate  tools
• Using the property inspector
• Working with other panels and groups
• Putting the timeline to use

Getting Started with the drawing tools

• Drawing in Animate 
• Understanding merge drawing mode
• Using the Line tool
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Using the shape and primitive tools
• Adding text to your artwork
• Introducing filters
• Working with colors and gradients
• Organizing and layering graphics
• Transforming graphics and gradients

Using symbols and the library with Animate

• Understanding symbols and instances
• Looking at the Library panel
• Creating symbols
• Building artwork with symbol instances
• Editing symbols
• Modifying instances
• Changing instance color
• Duplicating symbols
• Swapping symbols
• Managing the library

Creating basic animation using Animate

• Introducing keyframes and the timeline
• Working on layers
• Using frames and keyframes
• Creating motion-tweened animation
• Incorporating color effects, rotation, and scaling
• Modifying animation with the Motion Editor
• Controlling animation paths
• Morphing with Shape Tweens
• Creating and modifying classic tweens
• Adjusting animation with onion skinning

Working with imported files in Animate

• Understanding import formats
• Importing still images
• Placing a bitmap image
• Adding text
• Swapping out an imported file
• Modifying and updating imported artwork
• Updating imported files
• Taking advantage of Photoshop layers
• Importing Illustrator artwork
• Animating imported images

Adding Sound and Video to Animate projects

• Preparing sound files for Animate 
• Editing your audio
• Choosing audio formats
• Importing sounds
• Adding sounds to the timeline and buttons
• Understanding video in Animate 
• Choosing embedded vs. linked video
• Using Animate video formats
• Converting video with Adobe Media Encoder
• Adding embedded video

Introducing ActionScript navigation

• Understanding ActionScript
• Choosing the right ActionScript version
• Placing ActionScript
• Adding actions with the Actions panel
• Using Script Assist
• Controlling Movie Clip timelines
• Building basic button symbols
• Creating rollovers
• Exploring Javascript behaviors
• Adding behaviors to a button

Delivering a final animation

• Understanding the publishing process from Animate
• Customizing publish settings
• Publishing to the web
• Publishing for mobile devices
• Publishing for iOS
• Publishing for Android OS
• Using export movie
• Exporting as a PNG sequence