Animate Intro

Create captivating animations and interactivity using Adobe Animate.Bring your ideas to life on this Adobe Authorised course.

Course Offering

•  Two Day Course
•  10:00 - 16:30
•  Classroom at London Bridge
•  Live Online
•  Expert Tuition

What Will I Learn?

•  Understand file types and Animate interface
•  Master draw tools, vectors, and gradients
•  Learn animation principles and timeline essentials
•  Explore advanced techniques like motion guides and easing
•  Gain skills in interactivity and publishing animations
•  Free digital course assets
•  Free post-course helpdesk support

How Good Is The Course?

•  Average Score 4.8 out of 5
•  Delicious lunch provided
•  Certificate of Achievement
•  162 reviews

Day One

• Animate essentials
• About File Types: HTML5 Canvas versus Actionscript 3
• The Adobe Animate interface
• Syncing settings in Animate CC
• Creating a new Animate document
• Setting stage properties and dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Custom panel sets
• Rules, guides and grid
• Identifying the development cycle
• Creating a new file
• Publish Settings

Draw Tools and Bitmaps

• Object and shape draw modes
• Vector draw tools
• Alignment and Transformation Tools and Panels
• Modifying Properties
• Reshaping Vectors
• Working with Live Text
• Creating and modifying gradients
• Importing and saving swatches
• Working with Layers
• Layer Masks
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
• Importing Bitmaps

Basic Animation Principles

• Timeline Essentials
• Understanding the Timeline and Frame Rate
• About Frames, Keyframes and Blank Keyframes
• Adding, removing and copying from the Timeline
• Creating Cell Animations
• Creating Shape Tweens
• Controlling Shape Tweens
• Understanding Motion and Classic Tweens
• About Symbols: Graphic, Button and Movie Clip

Day Two

Classic Tween Techniques

• Creating Graphic Symbols
• Exploring the Library
• Editing Symbols and Resetting the Registration Point
• Fading in and out
• Resizing and Rotating
• Animating on a Path with Motion Guides
• Building self-contained Movie Clip animations
• Understanding and applying Easing
• Creating Custom Eases

Applied Animation Techniques

• Planning and Storyboards
• Character Animation Techniques
• Parallax scrolling
• Animated Masking
• Building and Testing Banner Ads
• Creating IK chains with the Bone Tool
• Working with the Camera Tool
• Integrating Audio and Video

Interactivity and Publishing

• Best practice for file sizes
• Exporting as Video and Animated Gif
• Creating Buttons
• About HTML5 and Javascript
• Working with Code Snippets
• Linking to websites
• Timeline Navigation
• Creating loops
• Publishing for browsers and devices
• About clickTag
• Working with AD Agencies