Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2022 release), 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (July 6, 2022) © 2022

  • Russell Chun

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ISBN-13: 9780137623624
Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2022 release)
Published 2022

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Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2022 release) contains 11 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help students become more productive with the program. Students can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest them.

Adobe Animate CC provides more expressive tools, powerful controls for animation, and robust support for playback across a wide variety of platforms. Create interactive virtual reality immersive environments with new VR 360 and VR Panorama documents. Gain advanced control over character animations with layer parenting and AI-driven lip syncing. Learn to focus the action on different parts of the Stage with the Camera tool and create a realistic sense of space with the Layer Depth panel. Support for SVG, WebGL, HTML5, animated GIFs, and HD video, and seamless collaboration with other designers and with other Adobe applications through Creative Cloud libraries make Adobe Animate the ideal development environment for creative animation and multimedia.

The 2022 release of Adobe Animate provides significant new controls for animation with puppet warping and improvements to layer parenting, and enhancements to paint brush preferences and symbol options. Learn to use the revamped Asset Warp tool for a modern rigging approach to animating shapes and bitmap images. Work with a more robust set of playback options for graphic symbols that provide total control over looping. Quickly publish to social media channels with support for SVG, WebGL, HTML5, animated GIFs, and HD video. Seamless collaboration through Adobe Creative Cloud makes Adobe Animate the ideal development environment for creative animation and multimedia.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:

  • Downloadable lesson files students need to work through the projects in the book
  • Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk students through the lessons step by step

What's needed to use this book: Adobe Animate (2022 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Animate software.

Getting Started

  • About Classroom in a Book
  • What's New
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing Animate CC
  • Copying the Lesson Files
  • How to Use the Lessons
  • Additional Resources
  • Adobe Certification

1. Getting Acquainted

2 Creating Graphics and Text

3. Animating Symbols with Motion Tweens

4. Advanced Motion Tweening

5. Layer Parenting and Classic Tweens

6. Puppet Warping

7. Inverse Kinematics with Bones

8. Animating the Camera

9. Animating Shapes and Using Masks

10. Creating Interactive Navigation

Bonus Lesson Online:  Working with Sound and Video

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