
Learn how to use Adobe Animate for graphic design by mastering workspace setup, core tools, and workflows to create vector graphics, icons, logos, gradients, masks, and a movie poster.
Set up and customize your Adobe Animate workspace, arrange essential windows like properties, tools, and timeline, and save a design workspace for consistent, follow-along sessions.
Master the Adobe Animate toolbar and customize tool layouts, including brush, pencil, line, shape tools, pen, eraser, and paint bucket, for direct drawing and editing of vector shapes.
Learn to use the properties tab in Adobe Animate to adjust stroke width and fill, enable snap to objects, and switch to object drawing mode for layered shapes.
Explore the timeline and stage in Adobe Animate, organize layers into folders, and combine drawing, painting, and exporting scenes for clean, designer-friendly animation.
Create farming icons in Adobe Animate by sketching with a pressure-enabled brush, then use shape tools to craft consistent, filled vector icons on a grid with snap-to and clean lines.
Design hen and bee icons in Adobe Animate by building shapes on separate layers. Use circles, ovals, outlines, and the transform tools to create heads, bodies, beaks, wings, and stripes.
Create icons with the line tool, set width to 10, and align tops for uniform height. Duplicate shapes, select with the selection tool, and apply rounded frames.
Apply brush styles and varying line widths in adobe animate to craft a lion graphic for a logo, using line profiles, the pen and pencil tools, and simple transforms.
Design a stylized whale coast logo in Adobe Animate by building a circular composition with sea, mountains, and sky, creating a color palette, using guides, vector tracing, and layered fills.
Explore the color wheel and color picker in Adobe Animate to fine-tune hue, saturation, and brightness, unlock full color beyond default swatches, and create gradients for advanced graphic design.
Learn to create linear and radial gradients in adobe animate using the gradient tool, color swatches, and the gradient transform tool to control orientation, center, and transparency.
Create a complex badge design in Adobe Animate by importing a reference sketch, building layered color shapes, and using the lasso tool to draw mountains, forest, and a river.
Use basic vector drawing in Adobe Animate to sketch a canoe on a river, create a boundary mask, form a simple silhouette, and plan typography in the final section.
Learn to build a graphic badge by adding a gradient sky, masking layers, and refining colors in Adobe Animate, using gradient transforms, masking techniques, and reflections for a polished design.
Set up the poster project in portrait orientation, adjust the canvas in document settings, import royalty-free assets to library, and prepare masking and double exposure for a Star Wars-inspired poster.
Trace and refine vector outlines with the pen tool in Adobe Animate, using outline mode and layer tricks to build a colored silhouette and a double-exposure landscape.
Draw a bold black foreground silhouette, add angular building shapes to contrast with a soft layered background, and use masks to create a see-through silhouette with sky texture.
Organize layers, create a mask layer, and mask to finish the poster; use paste-in-place, outline view, and turn the sky photo into a symbol to apply effects.
Add a bitmap texture as a symbol in Adobe Animate, apply opacity and tint effects, and use masking and layers to create a double exposure poster.
Learn to apply and customize type in Adobe Animate, adjust font, size, and color, and break apart letters, mask with images, add strokes, and prepare exports for Illustrator.
Discover how to export artwork in Adobe Animate, using legacy export for JPEG or PNG with dimensions and resolution, and 100 percent quality, and prepare vector art for Illustrator editing.
Learn how to export Adobe Animate files as SVGs to Illustrator, preserving editable paths and layers for client handoff, and manage transparency and embedding options.
Adobe Animate combines the power of Adobe Illustrator with the ease of Adobe Photoshop.
If you are a designer or digital artist looking for a quick and easy way to create vector art, this course is for you. You don't need to learn Adobe Illustrator. This course will teach you everything you need to know about Adobe Animate in order to create stunning graphics and complex designs, easily. Adobe Animate is a powerful design tool and is much easier to grasp than Adobe Illustrator.
If you're more familiar with Photoshop, and you find Illustrator to be complex and process-driven, then Animate offers you the best solution to create vector art.
And, if you are very comfortable with Adobe Illustrator, then this course will teach you how to switch over to Animate so that you can master the drawing and painting tools as a preliminary to learning motion design. Because in Adobe Animate you can sketch your ideas, design your artwork and animate it all in one program without having to export over to After Effects.
Adobe Animate can handle sketching, design, as well as animation. This class focusses on getting you up to speed with the design aspect of the software.
In this class you’ll learn everything you need to know how to make stunning and beautiful graphics for logo design, icon design, badges, posters and illustration.
First of all i’m going to give you an overview of the workspace and tools, and how to set up your workspace for designing. THen we’ll put to practical use all of the tools in 4 fun projects.
You’ll start out creating a super simple set of icons with simple shapes and lines.
Then you’ll develop slightly more complex work with 2 graphics for a logo.
In the 3rd project build an even more sophisticated and intricate graphic and learn how to use gradients and masks.
In the final project, you’ll get to recreate a beautiful movie poster based on an iconic design. This project will teach you how to make a double exposure effect as well as how to import bitmaps, use effects and blending modes.
Finally I’ll show you the capabilities that Animate has to handle type and to cusomtise your own unique fonts.
People often think of Adobe Animate has having 2 sides - it’s either either web development, or it’s Animation. But there’s a third, and powerful side to Animate - and that is it’s capability as a graphic design tool. I’m really excited to share this with you and to give you the option to create graphics quickly and easily.