DAY ONE

Animate essentials

• About File Types: HTML5 Canvas versus Actionscript 3

• The Adobe Animate interface

• Syncing settings in Animate CC

• Creating a new Animate document

• Setting stage properties and dimensions

• Working with panels and panel layouts

• Custom panel sets

• Rules, guides and grid

• Identifying the development cycle

• Creating a new file

• Publish Settings

Draw Tools and Bitmaps

• Object and shape draw modes

• Vector draw tools

• Alignment and Transformation Tools and Panels

• Modifying Properties

• Reshaping Vectors

• Working with Live Text

• Creating and modifying gradients

• Importing and saving swatches

• Working with Layers

• Layer Masks

• Integration with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

• Importing Bitmaps

Basic Animation Principles

• Timeline Essentials

• Understanding the Timeline and Frame Rate

• About Frames, Keyframes and Blank Keyframes

• Adding, removing and copying from the Timeline

• Creating Cell Animations

• Creating Shape Tweens

• Controlling Shape Tweens

• Understanding Motion and Classic Tweens

• About Symbols: Graphic, Button and Movie Clip

Questions and answers

DAY TWO

Classic Tween Techniques

• Creating Graphic Symbols

• Exploring the Library

• Editing Symbols and Resetting the Registration Point

• Fading in and out

• Resizing and Rotating

• Animating on a Path with Motion Guides

• Building self-contained Movie Clip animations

• Understanding and applying Easing

• Creating Custom Eases

Applied Animation Techniques

• Planning and Storyboards

• Character Animation Techniques

• Parallax scrolling

• Animated Masking

• Building and Testing Banner Ads

• Creating IK chains with the Bone Tool

• Working with the Camera Tool

• Integrating Audio and Video

Interactivity and Publishing

• Best practice for file sizes

• Exporting as Video and Animated Gif

• Creating Buttons

• About HTML5 and Javascript

• Working with Code Snippets

• Linking to websites

• Timeline Navigation

• Creating loops

• Publishing for browsers and devices

• About clickTag

• Working with AD Agencies

Questions and answers