Contents

1. GETTING STARTED

2. 1 GETTING ACQUAINTED

   1. Starting Adobe Animate and opening a file

   2. Understanding document types and creating a new document

   3. Getting to know the workspace

   4. Working with the Library panel

   5. Understanding the Timeline panel

   6. Organizing layers in a timeline

   7. Using the Properties panel

   8. Using the Tools panel

   9. Adding layer effects

   10. Undoing steps in Animate

   11. Previewing and exporting your movie

   12. Modifying the content and Stage

   13. Saving your movie

3. 2 CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT

   1. Getting started

   2. Understanding strokes and fills

   3. Creating shapes

   4. Making selections

   5. Editing shapes

   6. Using variable-width strokes

   7. Organizing your drawing

   8. Using brushes

   9. Creating curves

   10. Using brush mode options

   11. About symbols

   12. Creating symbols

   13. Managing symbol instances

   14. Using gradient fills

   15. Using transparency to create depth

   16. Applying filters and color effects

   17. Creating and editing text

   18. Aligning and distributing objects

   19. Sharing your final project

   20. Collaborating via the Assets panel

4. 3 ANIMATING SYMBOLS WITH CLASSIC TWEENS

   1. Getting started

   2. About animation

   3. Understanding the project file

   4. Animating position

   5. Changing the pacing and timing

   6. Animating transparency

   7. Animating filters

   8. Animating transformations

   9. Editing multiple frames

   10. Creating a path for motion

   11. Easing

   12. Creating nested animations

   13. Adding a 3D title

   14. Exporting your final movie

5. 4 LAYER PARENTING AND CHARACTER ANIMATION

   1. Getting started

   2. Layer parenting

   3. Tweening instances in connected layers

   4. Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue

6. 5 ANIMATING WITH MODERN RIGGING

   1. Getting started

   2. What is modern rigging?

   3. Using the Asset Warp tool

   4. Editing your rig

   5. Animating your rig

   6. Organizing warped assets

   7. Editing warped assets

   8. Rigs with branching joints

   9. Warp options

   10. Propagating rig edits

   11. Single joints

   12. Using Flexi bones

   13. Making envelope deformations

7. 6 ANIMATING SYMBOLS WITH MOTION TWEENS

   1. Getting started

   2. Understanding the project file

   3. About motion tweens

   4. Editing the path of motion

   5. About the Motion Editor

   6. Viewing options for the Motion Editor

   7. Adding complex eases

8. 7 ANIMATING THE CAMERA

   1. Animating camera moves

   2. Getting started

   3. Using the camera

   4. Attaching layers to the camera for fixed graphics

   5. Exporting your final movie

9. 8 ANIMATING SHAPES AND USING MASKS

   1. Getting started

   2. Animating shapes

   3. Understanding the project file

   4. Creating a shape tween

   5. Changing the pace

   6. Adding more shape tweens

   7. Creating a looping animation

   8. Using shape hints

   9. Previewing animations with onion skinning

   10. Animating color

   11. Creating and using masks

   12. Animating the mask and masked layers

   13. Easing a shape tween

10. 9 INVERSE KINEMATICS WITH BONES

    1. Getting started

    2. Character animation with inverse kinematics

    3. Creating the pedaling cycle

    4. Disabling and constraining joints

    5. Adding poses

    6. Inverse kinematics with shapes

    7. Simulating physics with springiness

    8. Tweening automatic rotations

    9. Rig mapping

11. 10 CREATING INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION

    1. Getting started

    2. About interactive movies

    3. ActionScript and JavaScript

    4. Creating buttons

    5. Preparing the timeline

    6. Creating destination keyframes

    7. Navigating the Actions panel

    8. Adding JavaScript interactivity with the Actions panel wizard

    9. Creating the “Shop now” button

    10. Playing animation at the destination

    11. Animated buttons

    12. Next steps

12. INDEX