Animate Training (Intro)

Adobe Animate training course for beginners, teaching how to produce professional-standard animations for incorporation into your website, app or e-learning tutorials.

This short courses teaches everything you need to create engaging and visually powerful animated web content in HTML5 format. You’ll learn to use Animate’s key features and tools to manipulate and optimise graphics, create and edit symbols and incorporate articulated motion and morphing.

Introduction to Animate training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

Content:

• Getting to know the workspace
• Working with the library panel
• Understanding the timeline
• Organising layers
• Using properties inspector and tools panel
• Undoing and previewing your movie
• Working with graphics
• Understanding strokes and fills
• Creating and editing shapes
• Using gradient and bitmap fills
• Making patterns and decorations
• Creating curves
• Creating and editing text
• Creating and editing symbols
• Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
• Creating symbols
• Editing and managing symbols
• Changing size and position of Instances
• Changing colour effects of instances
• Applying filters for special effects
• Positioning in 3D space
• Adding animation
• Understanding animation
• Animating position and transparency
• Changing the pacing and timing
• Animating filters and transformations
• Changing the path of the motion
• Creating nested animations
• Frame-by-frame animation
• Articulated motion and morphing
• Articulated motion with inverse kinematics
• Constraining joints
• Inverse kinematics with shapes
• Armature options
• Morphing with shape tweens, shape hints
• Navigation
• Adding a stop action
• Creating event handlers for buttons
• Using text
• Hyperlinking text
• Working with vertical text
• Publishing 
• Exporting to HTML5