CLASSROOM IN A BOOK

Adobe

Animate CC

2018 release

CLASSROOM IN A BOOK?

The official training workbook from Adobe

Russell Chun

Adobe Animate CC Classroom in a Book? (2018 release)

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CONTENTS AT A GLANCE

GETTING STARTED

xiii

1 GETTING ACQUAINTED

1

2 CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT

36

3 CREATING AND EDITING SYMBOLS

84

4 ANIMATING SYMBOLS

122

5 ADVANCED MOTION TWEENING

162

6 CLASSIC TWEENING

196

7 CONTROLLING THE CAMERA

234

8 ANIMATING SHAPES AND USING MASKS

264

9 NATURAL AND CHARACTER ANIMATION

298

10 CREATING INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION

340

11 WORKING WITH SOUND AND VIDEO

386

12 PUBLISHING

422

INDEX

446

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CONTENTS

GETTING STARTED

xiii

1 GETTING ACQUAINTED

1

Starting Adobe Animate CC and Opening a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Understanding Document Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Getting to Know the Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Working with the Library Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Understanding the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Organizing Layers in a Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the Properties Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Using the Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Undoing Steps in Animate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Previewing Your Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Modifying the Content and Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Saving Your Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

2 CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT

36

Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Understanding Strokes and Fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Creating Shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Making Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Editing Shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using Gradient and Bitmap Fills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using Variable-Width Strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using Swatches and Tagged Swatches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creating Curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using Transparency to Create Depth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Being Expressive with the Paint Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Creating and Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Aligning and Distributing Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Converting and Exporting Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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3 CREATING AND EDITING SYMBOLS

84

Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Importing Adobe Illustrator Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Creating Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Importing Adobe Photoshop Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Editing and Managing Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing the Size and Position of Instances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Changing the Color Effect of an Instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Understanding Display Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Applying Filters for Special Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Positioning Objects in 3D Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

4 ANIMATING SYMBOLS

122

Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

About Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Understanding the Project File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Animating Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Changing the Pacing and Timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Animating Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Animating Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Animating Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Changing the Path of the Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Swapping Tween Targets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Creating Nested Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Easing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Frame-by-Frame Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Animating 3D Motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Exporting Your Final Movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

5 ADVANCED MOTION TWEENING

162

Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

About the Motion Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Understanding the Project File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Adding Motion Tweens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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