Learn To Animate With Adobe Animate

Create a new 1280x720 hd project at 30 fps using the hd preset, set stage to hex 9999999 gray, and draw sky, sun, and ground with rectangle and oval tools.

Improve color workflows by using color management tools to apply linear gradients, adjust gradient transforms, and manage swatches for richer sky and ground visuals.

Master the pen tool in Adobe Animate to sketch a jagged mountain silhouette, fill it with black, and manage layers from the toolbar to create a clean horizon.

Create and refine custom paths in Animate using the pen tool, then adjust anchors and curve handles with the selection and sub selection tools.

Enhance landscapes in Adobe Animate by painting detailed stones and a pond using brush tools, including the GPU-accelerated fluid brush, classic brush, and vector art brushes, with shimmer effects.

Learners discover frame-by-frame animation in Adobe Animate by creating multiple frames, inserting and tweaking keyframes, using auto keyframe, looping a region, and copying frames to repeat a shimmering pond effect.

Animate a sun setting with shape tweens in Adobe Animate, using auto keyframing, color and scale changes, and easing for a natural motion.

Enable onion skin in the timeline to visualize past and future frames, adjust markers and opacity, and use a mask with shape tween to reveal stars as the sun moves.

Create static text in Adobe Animate with Europa Bold at 96 points in black, centered on the stage near frame 150, and organize layers into a beginning folder.

Convert the text to a graphic symbol to enable a classic tween, then animate with keyframes, fading the alpha for fade in and fade out with ease.

Create nested animations inside a graphic symbol by breaking text into shapes, applying the Asset Warp tool with pins to distort a mesh, and keyframing a three-second tween with easing.

Learn to animate graphic and movie clip symbols frame by frame in Adobe Animate, control playback with first/last frames, hold frames, and integrate assets like a shooting star.

Create motion tweens to animate a comet, adjust its path with the free transform tool, fade with alpha, and refine easing using the motion editor and camera keyframes.

Convert your actionscript based document to html5 canvas to run in a web browser; rewrite any preexisting code as needed, and test in the browser rather than inside Animate.

Import Photoshop assets into Adobe Animate, flatten and convert to a single animate layer with lossless quality, attach the UI layer to the camera, and use a blank keyframe.

Create a button symbol in animate with four frames for up, over, down, and hit states. swap library skins to set hover and pressed appearances and define the hit area.

Assign instance names to the start button and other interactive symbols, and place code in a top actions layer to enable targeted interactivity in Adobe Animate.

Use the actions panel and wizard to add stop and play actions to a timeline. Bind a mouse-click on the start button to control playback and test the interactive animation.

Publish to html5 canvas with looping, center stage, and responsive settings, then keep html, javascript, library, image, and sound files in their folders with a local web server for playback.

Explore essential tools and workflows in Adobe Animate, use pre-made assets to craft a project from scratch, animate with shapes, symbols, the camera, and tweens, then add audio and code.

Learn to create cinemagraphs by isolating motion in a video clip, looping it seamlessly, and incorporating a repetitive movement from elsewhere, all in Photoshop.

Learn to edit video in Photoshop using the timeline and video layers, trim with in/out markers, and apply persistent adjustments by converting to a smart object.

Isolate the steam movement in a diner scene by creating a still image layer, masking and feathering to reveal only the steam while eliminating other motion.

Achieve seamless looping in cinema graph by trimming to one second and using two techniques: old-school layer duplication with opacity fades, and Photoshop crossfade transitions.

Create an auto looping swing by masking a string, slow the motion, and align with the background using keyframes, blending modes, and timeline adjustments for a seamless cinema graph.

Enhance color with curves and vibrance, then export a cinema graph as an animated gif. Optimize color reduction, diffusion, and a forever loop to balance quality and file size.

master frame-by-frame animation in Adobe Animate, where each frame reveals its own layer and timing controls let you slow or reverse playback. export animated gifs with per-frame timing and looping.

Celebrate cinema graphs that bring photos to life with magic. Inspire you to apply the course techniques and grow as a digital artist by creating your own cinema graphs.