Course description
Adobe Animate: Essentials
Learn how to create interactive animations on SquareOne Training's Adobe Animate: Essentials training course. Designed for beginners and those looking to refresh their skills, this course will guide you through the fundamental tools and features of Adobe Animate. You will learn how to create engaging animations, interactive content, and stunning graphics.
You will learn all the key topics, including understanding the Adobe Animate interface and workspace, mastering animation techniques with timelines and motion tweens, and incorporating audio and video for enhanced storytelling. You'll also learn to design characters and assets using vector graphics and export projects for various platforms, including web and mobile.
By the end of this course, you will have practical experience in animation from hands-on projects and real-world examples equipping you to bring your creative ideas to life and create professional-quality animations.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for beginners to Adobe Creative Cloud or those with experience in other Adobe packages and looking to expand into Animate.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good level of PC and windows skills but do not need prior experience with Adobe.
Training Course Content
Timings:
09:30 - 16:30
Duration:
2 Days
GETTING ACCUSTOMED TO ANIMATE
- Getting to know the workspace
- Working with the Library and Timeline Panel
- Organising layers in a timeline
- Using the Properties panel
- Using the Tools panel
- Adding layer effects
- Undoing steps in Animate
- Previewing, exporting and saving your movie
- Modifying the content and Stage
CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT
- Understanding strokes and fills
- Creating and editing shapes
- Making selections
- Using variable-width strokes
- Creating curves
- Using brushes
- Using gradient fills and transparency
- Creating symbols and managing instances
- Applying filters for special effects
- Creating and editing text
- Aligning and distributing objects
HOW TO ANIMATE SYMBOLS
- About animation, animating position
- Understanding the project file
- Changing the pacing and timing
- Animating transparency, filters, transformations
- Editing multiple frames
- Changing the path of the motion
- Swapping tween targets
- Creating nested animations
- Easing
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Animating 3D motion
- Exporting your final movie
CREATE ADVANCED MOTION TWEENING
- Understanding the project file
- Adding motion tweens
- Editing property curves
- Viewing options for the Motion Editor
- Copying and pasting curves
- Adding complex eases
BUILD CHARACTER ANIMATION WITH TWEENS
- Layer parenting
- Using classic tweens
- Making and animating deformations
- Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue
GENERATE CHARACTER ANIMATION WITH BONES
- Character animation with inverse kinematics
- Creating the pedalling cycle
- Disabling and constraining joints
- Adding poses
- Inverse kinematics with shapes
- Simulating physics with springiness
- Tweening automatic rotations
- Using Rig mapping
HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR CLIPS
- Understanding publishing
- Converting to HTML5 Canvas
- Publishing for HTML5
- Publishing a desktop application
- Publishing with VR 360 documents
- VR Panorama and VR 360 documents
- Creating a texture layer
- Adding graphics and animation to a VR document
- Publishing to mobile device
Why choose SquareOne Training
25 years' experience of delivering quality IT Training Services
All trainers Certified Microsoft Office Trainer (MOS) or higher
Public and in-house training throughout the UK
Expenses
For information on pricing for this open/scheduled course, please send an enquiry here
This course can also be delivered in-house and tailored to meet the particular requirements of your organisation.
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