Learn how to use Adobe Animate to develop animated and interactive assets for websites, apps, and experiences. Discover how to use Adobe Animate-the multimedia drawing, layout, animation, and interactive design application-to create rich, expressive animations and interactive content. Instructor Joseph Labrecque covers what you need to know to get up and running with this powerful application, discussing how to create a basic Animate project, work with ready-to-use assets, and share your work. He also covers how to animate original content, including how to improve the look of your assets using color management tools and bring your assets to life using shape, classic, and motion tweens. Plus, learn how to take your animations to the next level by incorporating sound and adding common interactions.

Learn to create a simple web banner with motion and interactivity. Learn to create a simple web banner with motion and interactivity. This installment of Web Motion for Beginners shows you how to take a client project from concept to completion-in this case for a banner ad that invites viewers to visit Ontario, Canada. Tom Green shows how to build on an initial idea with sketches and wireframes, and create your image assets in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You'll then assemble the ad in Edge Animate and create interactive buttons with the Gradient feature.

Learn how to prototype gestures and design a number of useful microinteractions-including progress bars and pulsing effects-for UX design projects using Adobe Animate. Progress bars, ripple and pulsing effects, and other microinteractions should achieve a single task, and do so in a way that feels unobtrusive. But while these elements may be understated, they play an important role in a user's overall experience with your project. In this course, join Joseph Labrecque as he demonstrates how to prototype gestures and design a number of useful microinteractions for UX design projects using Adobe Animate. Explore the basics of creating motion within Animate, as well as how to prototype common gestures such as the double tap and long press. Finally, learn how to design a variety of microinteractions, including stretch and fill, icon transformation, and bouncing icons.

Learn all about the features and enhancements in the latest releases of Adobe Animate. Adobe Animate is the focused animation software that takes all the best tools from Flash Professional and bundles them with the Creative Cloud. In this course, learn about the features and enhancements in the latest releases of Adobe Animate by following along with expert Joseph Labrecque. Explore the modern user interface, advanced Onion Skin settings, and GPU-accelerated vector brushes such as Fluid Brush. Learn about enhanced animation tooling, including Frame Picker enhancements and ease presets for classic and shape tweens. Get the latest on interactivity enhancements, including global JavaScript declarations, the ability to include references to external JavaScript libraries, and new properties for HTML5 Canvas video components.

Discover how to set up a storyboard in Adobe Animate CC. Learn how to do fades and cross dissolves, create vertical pan shots, pose characters, add and edit audio, and more. Studios can create enormous problems if they begin projects in a disorderly manner. By creating a thoughtful, detailed storyboard, you can clarify your ideas and get your project off on the right foot. In this course, learn how to set up a storyboard in Adobe Animate CC. Dermot O'Connor demonstrates how to set up your project, do fades and cross dissolves, create vertical pan shots, work with characters like marching robot monsters), add and edit audio, and more.

This course takes you through everything you need to know to create your own 3D animated character in Blender 2.9. If you've ever wanted to create your own 3D animated character, this course is for you. Using open-source software-Blender and the paint program Krita-instructor Darrin Lile goes through every step of the process. He starts with creating the look of the character, showing how to bring in reference images, create textures for clothes, rig the bones of the character, and create, cut, and style your character's hair. Darrin then gets into the animation process, demonstrating how to set up a reference video in the Blender interface, animate character movements, and create lip sync animation for a dialogue track. He finishes the course by adding music and sound effects, then rendering the final animation to a video file, so you can share your new creation.

Discover ways to get and prep logos and use Photoshop or Illustrator to convert your files into layered images ready to animate. Get practical design ideas and animation tips too. Everybody wants an animated logo these days, which is great news for freelance video editors. But what if you're a video editor and new to motion graphics? Motion Graphics for Video Editors breaks down this workflow into easily understandable chunks, showing how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud tools that most video editors already have to complete basic motion graphics tasks. In this installment of the series, Rich Harrington introduces a few different ways to get and prep logos that are the right format and resolution, and use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to convert the files into layered images that are ready to animate. The real work then takes place in After Effects, where Rich shows how to animate a vector logo, as well as how to render a logo animation, add reflections, cast shadows, fill a logo with a pattern, and add rays and glows that will impress your future clients.

Learn how to use Adobe Animate to design a fully interactive, animated infographic for use on the native web. Learn how to use Adobe Animate to design a fully interactive, animated infographic for use on the native web. This course explores document and layer management, instantiation of infographic assets, and the creation of additional vector shape data and text to create a full infographic layout. Following this, instructor Joseph Labrecque shows how to add motion to various portions of internal symbol timelines to augment user interactions like hovers, clicks, detail reveals, and more. Finally, he reviews how to add interactive elements to the infographic-tying together the layout, internal motion, and info detail reveals into a smooth package to be published for use on the native web.

In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate CC to assemble and animate a scene, and set up a complex rig for both a human character and a robot. After you've created a storyboard for your animated project, you're ready to tackle the next phase of the pipeline-actually assembling your scenes and rigging your characters. In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate CC to assemble and animate a scene, and set up a complex rig for both a human character and a robot. Dermot O'Connor shows how to properly line a character, place the pivots, and set up the scene symbol. Plus, he shows how to animate a dynamic action scene, import audio, and export your scene.

Learn 2D animation techniques for making monsters, aliens, and other supernatural creatures come to life. Animating a convincing Dracula or zombie involves many of the classic principles of animation; however, in order to properly spook your audience, you'll often want to make your creatures move in creepy or unnatural ways. In this course, Dermot O'Connor shares 2D animation techniques for making monsters, aliens, and other supernatural subjects come to life. Dermot explains how to deal with muscular creatures, animate jerky creatures, and make eerily smooth movements. He illustrates how to apply each technique by drawing familiar monsters like ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and more.

Learn how to animate the motions and anatomies of different flying creatures-from insects, to birds, to dragons. The varying sizes and anatomies of flying animals results in different flying styles and patterns. For example, imagine a hummingbird's wings and flight path as compared to a crow's. This course demonstrates how to animate the motions of different flying creatures, from a tiny butterfly to an enormous dragon.