1 - Introduction to Animate

In Lesson One, you'll learn how Animate evolved and what it's used for. You'll begin with the basics for creating an educational or informational video: setting up a document, using drawing tools, add fill and stroke colors, create and modify shapes, grouping objects, and add depth to your artwork using gradients.

Project - Create a character and storyline

2 – From Raster to Vector

In this lesson, you will learn how to import different kinds of media to support your animated project, including audio files and bitmap images to use as a reference for backgrounds. You'll learn some tips and techniques for the new Paint Brush tool and cover how to manage your artwork and keep your project organized with groups, layers, and symbols.

Project – Developing your scene and script

3 – Tweens and Keyframes

Let's move! You'll learn how to animate graphics, starting with the basics of motion tweening, learning different ways to change the position, size, angle, and pace of an animation in Animate. You’ll also work with motion paths and learn how to modify them. Add a sense of realism to your animation using easing.

Project – Apply beginning animation techniques

4 – Intermediate Animation Techniques

In Lesson 4, you'll explore how to animate and orient objects along a path using motion guides, animate titles to introduce your topic, animate text to add 3D effects, and create nested animations to give your animation credibility.

Project – Apply intermediate animation techniques

5 – Advanced Animation Techniques

Lesson 5 will teach you how to create static and animated mask layers to isolate features in your animation. Learn how to create practical masking techniques to show objects emerging in a 3-D environment, like a doorway or tunnel. Also, learn the basics of frame-by-frame animation and how to create lip syncing using this technique.

Project – Create an animated storyboard

6 – The Next Level of Animation

Here you will learn new techniques that will make your animations more fluid and realistic, including layer parenting, the Bone Tool, and the Asset Warp tool. You will also learn a more sophisticated process to make your characters talk using Animate’s Auto Lip Sync tool.

Project – Converting your informational or education project to video

• Analyze the evolution of Animate from Flash and understand the purposes of the new Animate tool.
• Create vector graphics in the Animate environment using drawing tools, fills and strokes, gradients, and transformations.
• Import vector, bitmap, and audio files into a project.
• Use groups, layers, and symbols to organize your artwork.
• Use tweens, keyframes, and motion paths on the timeline to control when graphics appear on the stage.
• Apply motion tweens to animate changes in the appearance and location of objects.
• Use easing to make the motion of objects more realistic.
• Create animations with objects oriented on a path, nested in other animations, and animated text and titles.
• Use static and animated mask layers to reveal or highlight certain features of your animation.
• Use frame-by-frame animation to create basic animations, including lip syncing.
• Storyboard and plan out a short instructional video presentation.
• Learn advanced and sophisticated animation techniques used by professional animators.
• Animate a 30-second instructional video incorporating character animation and audio.

Interested in this course? Scheduled enrollment options are available. Ask Admissions about taking this course as part of a degree program.

Software and Supplies

To take this course you'll need:

• Computer with Internet connection (broadband recommended.)
• Adobe Animate CC2015.