The Adobe Animate course covers all the basic skills needed to start creating animated web content using Adobe Animate. The topics we cover are listed below.
Adobe Animate - Course Topics
Overview of Animate
- What is Animate for
- What can you export Animate files to
Working with Animate documents
- Creating a new HTML5 canvas document
- Creating a new WebGL document
- File types that you can work with
- Working with other Adobe applications
- Templates
- Document properties
- Using the property inspector
- Saving an Animate file…
- …to an fla
- …to an xfl
- …as a template
- OAM Publishing
- Placing your work in Dreamweaver
- Placing your work in Muse
- Placing your work InDesign
Animate workflow
- Using the Animate workspace
- Libraries
- Setting up your Library
- Populating your Library
- Organising your Library
- The Stage
- Placing your content
- Animating your content
- Testing your animation
- Uing Typekit web fonts
The timeline
- What is the timeline
- Multiple timelines
- Layers
- Layer options
- Using multiple layers
The tools
- Creating and editing shapes
- Drawing
- The pen tool
- The pencil, brush, and paint brush tools
- Using colour
- Fill and stroke
Symbols
- Creating and using symbols
- Types of symbols
- MovieClips
- Buttons
- Graphic
- Working with symbols
- Using MovieClips
- Using buttons
- Using graphic symbols
Animation and Interactivity
- Basics of animation
- Tweening
- Types of tweening
- Classic tween animation
- Motion tweens
- Shape tweening
- Using variable stroke width for animation
- Using the stroke colour for animation
- Using the Motion Editor
- Frames and keyframes
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Animating with the Bone tool
Using audio and video
- Importing audio
- Importing video
- What type of audio/video files can be used
- Video cue points
Converting and Exporting your work
- Publishing an HTML5 Canvas document
- Exporting to WebGL
- Publishing your content on multiple platforms
- Document settings
- Publish settings
- Best practice