Content

Foreword

How to cheat, and why

Acknowledgments

How to use this book

1 What’s new in CC

Under the hood

Darker User Interface

Unlimited pasteboard size

Distribute symbols & bitmaps to keyframes

Swap multiple symbols & bitmaps

Toggle Guides & Masks

Scale to Anchor Point

DragonBones Extension

Multi-device connectivity

Exporting Video

Find & Replace enhancements

Live preview for drawing tools

Other notable enhancements

Deprecated features

Interlude: Adobe Creative Cloud

2 Design styles

Drawing with basic shapes

Geometric and organic shapes

The Brush tool

Mixing colors

Advanced color effect

Animated color effect

Using gradients

Adding texture

The Pen tool

Trace Bitmap

Image Trace (Illustrator)

Shading 1: line trick

Shading 2: shape it

Shading 3: paint selected

Shading 4: outlines

Realism with gradients

UI Design

Character design

Object Drawing

Interlude: Being subtle

3 Transformation & distortion

Distorting bitmaps

The Envelope tool

Warping

Card flip

3D Rotation

Butterfly

Squash and stretch

Interlude: A moment of clarity

4 Masking

Rotating globe

Flag waving

Iris transition

Handwriting

Spotlight

Focus

Feathered mask (ActionScript)

Medical pack

Interlude: Learning to be simple

5 Motion techniques

Motion and Classic tweens

Creating Motion tweens

Working with Motion spans

Editing Motion paths

Motion Presets

Motion tweens and 3D

3D Position and View

Basic shadow

Drop shadow

Perspective shadow

Flying text

Combining effects

Blur filter (text)

Selective blurring

Background blurring

Interlude: How did I get here?

6 Character animation

2.5D basics

2.5D advanced

2.5D monkey

Lip syncing (swap method)

Lip syncing (nesting method)

To sync or not to sync

Sync (Classic tweens)

Sync (Motion tweens)

Hinging body parts

Closing the gaps

Bitmap animation (Jib Jab)

PSD Importer (Jib Jab)

Motion guides (Jib Jab)

Walk cycle

Advanced walk cycle

Walk cycle examples

Anticipation

Drawing upon oneself

Tradigital animation

Brush animation

Interlude: Embracing challenges

7 Animation examples

Super text effect

Page turn

Smoke with gradients

Smoke stylized

Full steam ahead

Handwriting effect (frame-by-frame)

Fireworks

Soft reveal

Star Wars text

Color adjustments

Vertigo

Let it rain

Playing with fire

Torch

Lightning

Winter wonderland

3D perspective

Sausage grinder

Interlude: From the inside out

8 Working with sound

Recording sounds

Samson USB Microphones

Audacity®

Adobe® Audition® CC

Sound in Flash

Dynamic sounds (AS3)

Interlude: My wish list for Flash CC

9 Flash to video

Document setup

Title and action safety

CC video templates

Safe colors

Ape Escape

Keeping it all in sync

QuickTime Exporter

SWF & FLV Toolbox

Interlude: Wacom tablets

10 Interactivity

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

Interlude: Thank you

Index