Adobe Animate CC Classroom in a Book® (2017 Release) by Chun, Russell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Where are the Lesson Files? Contents Getting Started

About Classroom in a Book What’s New Prerequisites Installing Animate CC Online Content

Lesson files Web Edition

How to Use the Lessons Additional Resources Adobe Authorized Training Centers Contributor

1. Getting Acquainted

Starting Adobe Animate CC and Opening a File

Creating a new document

Understanding Document Types

Playback environment

Getting to Know the Workspace

Choosing a new workspace Saving your workspace About the Stage Changing the Stage properties

Working with the Library Panel

About the Library panel Importing an item to the Library panel Adding an item from the Library panel to the Stage

Understanding the Timeline

Renaming a layer Adding a layer Inserting frames Creating a keyframe Moving a keyframe

Organizing Layers in a Timeline

Creating layer folders Adding layers to layer folders

Using the Properties Panel

Positioning an object on the Stage

Using the Tools Panel

Selecting and using a tool

Undoing Steps in Animate Previewing Your Movie Modifying the Content and Stage

Stage resizing and content scaling

Saving Your Movie

Using Auto-Recovery for a backup Saving an XFL document Modifying an XFL document

Review Questions Review Answers

2. Creating Graphics and Text

Getting Started Understanding Strokes and Fills Creating Shapes

Using the Rectangle tool Using the Oval tool

Making Selections

Selecting strokes and fills

Editing Shapes

Using the Free Transform tool Using Copy and Paste Changing shape contours Changing strokes and fills

Using Gradient and Bitmap Fills

Creating gradient transitions Using the Gradient Transform tool Adding a bitmap fill Grouping objects

Using Variable-Width Strokes

Adding variable-width lines Editing the width of lines

Using Swatches and Tagged Swatches

Saving a swatch Creating a tagged swatch Using a tagged swatch Updating tagged swatches

Creating Curves

Using the Pen tool Editing curves with the Selection and Subselection tools Deleting or adding anchor points

Using Transparency to Create Depth

Modifying the Alpha value of a fill Adding shadows

Being Expressive with the Paint Brush

Exploring the Brush Library Creating a pattern Managing paint brushes

Creating and Editing Text

Using the Text tool to add dynamic text Adding a web font Identifying your domain Removing a web font Matching the color of an existing object

Aligning and Distributing Objects

Aligning objects

Converting and Exporting Art

Converting vector art to bitmap art Exporting art as PNG, JPG, or GIF

Review Questions Review Answers

3. Creating and Editing Symbols

Getting Started Importing Adobe Illustrator Files

Using simple import options

About Symbols

Movie clip symbols Button symbols Graphic symbols

Creating Symbols Importing Adobe Photoshop Files Editing and Managing Symbols

Adding folders and organizing the library Editing a symbol from the library Editing a symbol in place Breaking apart a symbol instance

Changing the Size and Position of Instances

Using rulers and guides

Changing the Color Effect of an Instance

Changing the brightness Changing the transparency

Understanding Display Options

Visible property for movie clips Blending effects Export As Bitmap

Applying Filters for Special Effects

Applying a blur filter

Positioning in 3D Space

Changing the 3D rotation of an object Changing the 3D position of an object Resetting the transformation Understanding the vanishing point and the perspective angle

Review Questions Review Answers

4. Animating Symbols

Getting Started About Animation Understanding the Project File Animating Position

Preview the animation

Changing the Pacing and Timing

Changing the animation duration Adding frames Moving keyframes

Animating Transparency Animating Filters Animating Transformations Changing the Path of the Motion

Moving the path of the motion Changing the scale or rotation of the path Editing the path of the motion Orienting objects to the path

Swapping Tween Targets Creating Nested Animations

Creating animations inside movie clip symbols

Graphic Symbols

Using the Frame Picker for phonemes

Easing

Splitting a motion tween Applying eases to motion tweens

Frame-by-Frame Animation

Inserting a new keyframe Changing the graphics

Animating 3D Motion Animating Camera Moves

Enabling the camera Characteristics of the camera Zooming the camera Moving the camera Animating a pan Panning across the Stage Zooming out Animating camera color effects

Testing Your Movie Review Questions Review Answers

5. Advanced Motion Tweening

Getting Started About the Motion Editor Understanding the Project File Adding Motion Tweens Editing Property Curves

Understanding the Motion Editor values Adding anchor points Changing the curvature Moving anchor points Deleting anchor points Deleting property curves

Viewing Options for the Motion Editor Copying and Pasting Curves

Duplicating entire motion tweens

Adding Complex Eases

Adding the next motion tween Adding an ease-in Removing an ease Animating bounces Using the BounceIn ease Applying a second ease to a different property curve

Review Questions Review Answers

6. Animating Shapes and Using Masks

Getting Started Animating Shapes Understanding the Project File Creating a Shape Tween

Establish keyframes containing different shapes Apply the shape tween

Changing the Pace

Moving a keyframe

Adding More Shape Tweens

Insert additional keyframes Extending the shape tweens

Creating a Looping Animation

Duplicating keyframes Previewing the loop Inserting the animation into a movie clip

Using Shape Hints

Adding shape hints Removing shape hints

Previewing Animations with Onion Skinning

Turning on onion skinning Adjusting the markers Customizing onion skin colors

Animating Color

Adjusting the gradient fills

Creating and Using Masks

Define the mask layer Create the masked layer See the effects of the mask

Animating the Mask and Masked Layers

Adding a tween to the masked layer

Easing a Shape Tween

Adding an ease-in

Review Questions Review Answers

7. Natural and Character Animation

Getting Started Natural Motion and Character Animation with Inverse Kinematics

Building your first armature to animate a character Extending your armature Moving the bones of the armature Modifying the position of the joint Rearranging the stacking order

Creating a Walk Cycle

Posing your armature Isolating the rotation of individual bones Pinning individual bones

Disabling and Constraining Joints

Disabling the rotation of joints Constraining the range of rotation Constraining the translation of joints

Adding Poses

Inserting poses

Inverse Kinematics with Shapes

Defining bones inside a shape Animating the tail Combining the tail and the walk cycle Editing the shape Adding the background

Simulating Physics with Springiness

Define bones for your armature Setting the spring strength for each bone Insert the next pose Adding damping effects

Review Questions Review Answers

8. Creating Interactive Navigation

Getting Started About Interactive Movies Creating Buttons

Creating a button symbol Duplicating buttons Swapping bitmaps Placing the button instances Naming button instances

Understanding ActionScript 3.0

About ActionScript Understanding scripting terminology Using proper scripting syntax Navigating the Actions panel

Preparing the Timeline Adding a Stop Action Creating Event Handlers for Buttons

Adding the event listener and function Checking for errors

Creating Destination Keyframes

Inserting keyframes with different content Using labels on keyframes

Creating a Home Button Using Code Snippets

Adding another button instance Using the Code Snippets panel to add ActionScript

Code Snippets Options

Creating your own code snippet Sharing your code snippet

Playing Animation at the Destination

Creating transition animations Using the gotoAndPlay command Stopping the animations

Animated Buttons

Creating the animation in a movie clip symbol

Review Questions Review Answers

9. Working with Sound and Video

Getting Started Understanding the Project File Using Sounds

Importing sound files Placing sounds on the Timeline Adding frames to the Timeline Clipping the end of a sound Changing the volume of a sound Deleting or changing the sound file Adding sounds to buttons

Understanding Video

Video with ActionScript 3.0 or AIR documents Video with HTML5 Canvas documents Video encoding

Using Adobe Media Encoder CC

Adding a video file to Adobe Media Encoder Converting video files for Animate

Understanding Encoding Options

Adjusting video length Setting advanced video and audio options Saving advanced video and audio options

Playback of External Video in Your Project

Controlling the video playback

Working with Video and Transparency

Importing the video clip

Embedding Video

Embedding an FLV on the Timeline Using embedded video

Review Questions Review Answers

9. Working with Sound and Video—Supplement

Setting the quality of the sounds Using the Watch Folders panel and the Preset Browser settings Cropping your video Exporting Video from Animate

Exporting video Choosing a target device for encoding

10. Publishing

Understanding Publishing

Document types Runtime environments

Publishing for Flash Player

Specifying publish settings for Flash Player

Publishing for HTML5

What is HTML5 Canvas? What is CreateJS?

Using Classic Tweens

Understanding the project file Creating the movie clip symbol Inserting a keyframe and changing the instance Applying a classic tween Adding the movie clip instance

Exporting to HTML5

Publish settings

Inserting JavaScript

Using HTML5 Canvas code snippets Adding a response to a click Controlling the Timeline

Converting to HTML5 Canvas

Converting an AS3 document to an HTML5 Canvas document Understanding image assets

Publishing a Desktop Application

Creating an AIR application Installing an AIR application Creating a projector

Publishing to Mobile Devices

Testing a mobile app Simulating a mobile app Publishing a mobile app

Next Steps Review Questions Review Answers

10. Publishing—Supplement

Detecting the version of Flash Player Changing display settings Changing Playback settings Understanding the HTML5 output files Editing the converted HTML5 Canvas

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