Animate Advanced Training – Live Online or Classroom

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Animate Advanced

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Animate Introduction

We use Transmedia all the time and this course was as good as always. Lee is a wonderful trainer, very patient and answered all my extra questions. Thank you!
Ogilvy
August 2024
Animate Introduction

Great trainer, nice friendly welcome and I learned a lot. Very worthwhile and highly recommended.
Fiora Agency
August 2024
Animate Introduction

The course was great, well organised and our trainer made it all easy to understand. I learned a huge amount. No idea I could do so much with Animate! Will be back for the Advanced course.
The Open University
August 2024
An excellent trainer with extreme depth of knowledge in the product. Also some really good and helpful shortcuts.

August 2024
Great delivery, enjoyable training session.

August 2024

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2 day course
Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
Live Online or Classroom-based
Certificate of completion
Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
Unlimited support after your course
Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses

Course Outline

Layer Parenting and Character Animation
Animating with Modern Rigging
Animating Symbols with Motion Tweens
Animating the Camera
Animating Shapes and Using Masks

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Animate Introduction

We use Transmedia all the time and this course was as good as always. Lee is a wonderful trainer, very patient and answered all my extra questions. Thank you!
Ogilvy
August 2024
Animate Introduction

Great trainer, nice friendly welcome and I learned a lot. Very worthwhile and highly recommended.
Fiora Agency
August 2024
Animate Introduction

The course was great, well organised and our trainer made it all easy to understand. I learned a huge amount. No idea I could do so much with Animate! Will be back for the Advanced course.
The Open University
August 2024
An excellent trainer with extreme depth of knowledge in the product. Also some really good and helpful shortcuts.

August 2024
Great delivery, enjoyable training session.

August 2024

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Overview

In this hands-on, two-day Advanced Adobe Animate training course, you will learn how to design interactive animations with more advanced techniques and features. The topics covered in this course include advanced motion tweening, animating shapes and using masks, animating natural motion and characters, creating interactive navigation, working with sound and video, and publishing out of Animate for HTML5, converting to HTML5 Canvas, inserting JavaScript and more. Our course is aimed at graphic designers, online content strategists, web Designers/developers and animation artists who already have some experience in Adobe Animate and preferably some coding experience, for example in JavaScript. All our Adobe Animate courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools. Topics covered include Layer parenting and character animation, Animating with modern rigging, Animating symbols with motion tweens, Animating the camera, Animating shapes and using masks, Inverse kinematics with bones and Creating interactive navigation.

Course Outline

Layer Parenting and Character Animation

Layer parenting
Tweening instances in connected layers
Graphic symbols for lip-syncing dialogue

Animating with Modern Rigging

What is modern rigging?
Using the Asset Warp tool
Editing your rig
Animating your rig
Organising warped assets
Editing warped assets
Rigs with branching joints
Warp options
Propagating rig edits
Single joints
Using Flexi bones
Making envelope deformations

Animating Symbols with Motion Tweens

Understanding the project file
About motion tweens
Editing the path of motion
About the Motion Editor
Viewing options for the Motion Editor
Adding complex eases

Animating the Camera

Animating camera moves
Using the camera
Attaching layers to the camera for fixed graphics
Exporting your final movie

Animating Shapes and Using Masks

Animating shapes
Understanding the project file
Creating a shape tween
Changing the pace
Adding more shape tweens
Creating a looping animation
Using shape hints
Previewing animations with onion skinning
Animating colour
Creating and using masks
Animating the mask and masked layers
Easing a shape tween

Inverse Kinematics with Bones

Character animation with inverse kinematics
Creating the pedalling cycle
Disabling and constraining joints
Adding poses
Inverse kinematics with shapes
Simulating physics with springiness
Tweening automatic rotations
Rig mapping

Creating Interactive Navigation

About interactive movies
ActionScript and JavaScript
Creating buttons
Preparing the timeline
Creating destination keyframes
Navigating the Actions panel
Adding JavaScript interactivity with the Actions panel wizard
Creating the 'Shop now' button
Playing animation at the destination
Animated buttons

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