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Animate | Level 1 teaches you how to create animation for web banners, presentations, eLearning, and interactive multimedia for web and desktop. Learn how to create your own graphics, import photoshop files, and add motion on the timeline.

What can you create with Adobe Animate?

Animate Level 1 Upcoming Classes

Location	Length	Dates	Times	Cost
Live Online	2 days	May 9-10 Thu-Fri Aug 1-2 Thu-Fri Oct 9-10 Wed-Thu	9:30am - 4:30pm	$595

Animate Training Outline | Level 1

Los Angeles Adobe Animate CC Training | Create Vector Animation Learn Adobe Animate

Audience
Animate: Level 1 is for students who are new to Animate or who want to create vector graphics and animation for eLearning, Social Media, Advertising, and more.

Prerequisites

Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac

Introduction to Adobe Animate

What is Adobe Animate?
What happened to Flash?
What is an HTML% Canvas
What is a SWF?
About the Flash Player and plugin
Setting up your Workspace in Adobe Animate
Organizing Panels and panel groups

Creating a canvas in Adobe Animate

Setting up new documents
Setting Document Properties
The Stage and Work area
The Animate Tools panel
The Property Inspector
Introducing the Timeline
Practicing with Animate drawing tools
Learning drawing and selection tools

Getting Started with the Drawing Tools

Drawing in Animate
Working with Drawing Objects
Adding text to your artwork
Working with colors
Creating gradients
Using the Gradient Transform Tool
Creating and saving custom colors
Organizing and layering graphics
Working with layers
Arranging, locking, and hiding layers
Transforming graphics
The Transform panel and Free Transform too
Setting preferences
Identifying the development cycle
Publishing a file

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

Creating Original Artwork in Animate
Using Animate Tools to manipulate and create artwork
Working with different graphic formats
What are Bitmap Graphics?
What are Vector Graphics?
Importing bitmap graphics
Importing vector graphics
Working with layers and layer folders
Working with the Color panel
Creating and using Graphic Symbols
Swapping out an imported file
Modifying imported artwork
Importing a layered Photoshop file
Importing Illustrator artwork

Using Text Effectively

Using the Text tool
Adding and formatting static text
Changing font rendering methods
Anti-Aliasing Fonts for Readability and Animation
Breaking Text Apart for Animation

Using Symbols and the Library

What are symbols?
Creating and Updating Symbols
A look at the Library panel
Converting a graphic to a symbol
Building artwork with symbol instances
Positioning and snapping in symbol instances
Editing and duplicating symbols
Editing symbols in place
Modifying instances
Duplicating symbols
Adding graphics and text
Swapping symbols
Managing and Working with the Library
Importing External Libraries
Organizing symbols with folders
Graphic Symbols vs Movie Clip Symbols

Advanced Tools

Working with Onion Skinning for frame-by-frame animation
Editing Multiple Frames
New Animate tools for advanced drawing
Masking Techniques
Animated Masks
Introducing the Deco tools

Creating Basic Animation

Introducing keyframes and the Timeline
Creating Animations using Symbols and Motion Tweens
Tween layers and automatic keyframing
Tweening multiple objects
Previewing animation with Test Movie
Animating on a motion guide
Orienting Animations to a path
Incorporating color effects and Transformations
Introducing the Motion Editor
Modifying animations using the Motion Editor
Tweening rotation
Morphing graphics and colors with Shape Tweens
Legacy techniques: Creating classic tweens
Adding color effects and scaling to a classic tween
(Re)creating motion guides for classic tweens
Adjusting animation with onion skinning

Advanced Animation

Copying, pasting, and saving animation
Duplicating Animations
Using Symbols inside of symbols for
Using Copy and Paste Motion
Using and Creating Motion Presets
Applying Advanced Easing Behavior
Animating Masks
Creating Animation with IK Poses
Sequencing Animation
Shifting, Moving, and Extending Tween Spans
Rendering and Animating in 3D
The 3D Rotation tool
The 3D Translation tool
Fine-Tuning Tweens with the Motion Editor
Adding shape tweens and shape hints
Creating Shape Hints
Animating Color Effects
Creating and Animating Filters (drop shadows, bevels)

Customizing Your Workflow

Customizing workspace layouts
Using Shortcuts Keys
Managing workspaces
Setting preferences
Keyboard shortcuts
Visual aids for alignment
Rulers and guides
Guide layers
Advanced alignment
Refining your aligned objects

Using Moving Clips

Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
Using frame labels
Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

Importing sound
Changing sound properties
Event, Start and Streaming Sound
Adding sound to a Timeline
Modifying and Editing Sound
Embedding video in a Timeline
Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Animate Documents

Publishing and Exporting Animate files
Exporting to different formats
Creating Templates
Using publishing profiles
The Bandwith Profiler
Publishing for deployment

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