Adobe Animate CC

Hours: 32 / Access Length: 180 Days / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $375.00

Course Overview:

This course provides hands-on learning with Adobe Animate to create interactive animations for games, apps, and the web.  Working through 10 project-based lessons, students will learn step-by-step how to create animations using Adobe's latest version of Animate.

This course prepares a student to take the Adobe Multiplatform animation using Adobe Animate CC certification exam.

Students will need a copy of Adobe Animate CC in order to follow along with the content in the course.

Students will:
  • Open and save Animate documents
  • Use drawing tools to create simple graphics
  • Create a static frame of a cartoon
  • Create natural motion such as walking
  • Add interactivity to an animation
  • Integrate sound and video into an animation
  • Publish an animation project

About This Course:

We are committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. This course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments.

When a student learns, they are not alone.   Each student will be supported by our student services department – which ranges from course mentors, registrar, and technical support assistance.   Every month students have a progress report run on them every month by our student services department to ensure they are making satisfactory progress.   If a student falls behind, we reach out to them personally by phone call every month to see if there is anything we can do to continue to assist them with moving forward in their course.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Create a new file in Adobe Animate CC
  • Adjust Stage settings and document properties
  • Add layers to the Timeline
  • Understand and manage keyframes in the Timeline
  • Work with imported images in the Library panel
  • Move and reposition objects on the Stage
  • Open and work with panels
  • Select and use tools in the Tools panel
  • Preview your animation
  • Save your file
Lesson 2: Creating Graphics and Text

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Draw rectangles, ovals, and other shapes
  • Modify the shape, color, and size of drawn objects
  • Understand fill and stroke settings
  • Create and edit curves and variable-width strokes
  • Use Art and Pattern brushes for expressive drawing
  • Edit colors quickly with tagged swatches
  • Apply gradients and transparencies
  • Create and edit text
  • Add web fonts into HTML5 Canvas documents
  • Distribute objects on the Stage
Lesson 3: Creating and Editing Symbols

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Import Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop artwork
  • Create and edit symbols
  • Understand symbols and instances
  • Positioning objects on the Stage
  • Adjust transparency and color, and turn visibility on or off
  • Apply blending effects
  • Apply special effects with filters
  • Position objects in 3D space
Lesson 4:  Animating Symbols

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Animate the position, scale, and rotation of objects
  • Adjust the pacing and timing of your animation
  • Animate transparency and special effects
  • Change the path of an object’s motion
  • Create nested animation
  • Split a motion tween
  • Change the easing of an object’s motion
  • Animate in 3D space
  • Animate camera moves with the Camera tool
Lesson 5: Advanced Motion Tweening

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use the Motion Editor to refine and create complex animation
  • Understand when to use the Motion Editor
  • Change the Motion Editor view
  • Edit a property curve
  • Copy and paste a property curve
  • Use eases to create more realistic motion
  • Add different eases to different property curves
  • Modify or remove an ease
  • Understand the difference between a property curve and an ease curve
Lesson 6: Animating Shapes Using Masks

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Animate shapes with shape tweens
  • Use shape hints to refine shape tweens
  • Shape tween gradient fills
  • View onion skin outlines
  • Apply easing to shape tweens
  • Create and use masks
  • Understand mask limitations
  • Animate the Mask and Masked layers
Lesson 7: Natural and Character Animation

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use the Bone tool to build armatures (skeletons) of movie clips
  • Use the Bone tool to build armatures of shapes
  • Animate natural motion of armatures using inverse kinematics
  • Constrain and pin the armature joints
  • Edit the position of armature bones and joints
  • Refine shape deformations with the Bind tool
  • Simulate physics with the Spring feature
  • Adjust the speed setting to add a sense of weight to armatures
Lesson 8: Creating Interactive Navigation

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Create button symbols
  • Add sound effects to buttons
  • Duplicate symbols
  • Swap symbols and bitmaps
  • Name button instances
  • Write ActionScript 3.0 code to create nonlinear navigation
  • Identify code errors with the Compiler Errors panel
  • Use the Code Snippets panel to quickly add interactivity
  • Create and use frame labels
  • Create animated buttons
Lesson 9: Working with Sound and Video

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Import sound files
  • Edit and split sound files
  • Use Adobe Media Encoder to prepare video
  • Understand video and audio encoding options
  • Use components to playback video for Adobe AIR, ActionScript 3.0, or HTML5 Canvas documents
  • Embed video as a guide to animation
  • Customize options on video playback components
  • Work with video that contains alpha channels
  • Embed video on the Timeline
Lesson 10: Publishing

 In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Understand runtime environments
  • Understand the output files for different Animate document types
  • Modify publish settings
  • Create classic tweens for HTML5 animation
  • Insert and edit JavaScript in the Actions panel
  • Use HTML5 Canvas snippets
  • Convert an existing ActionScript 3.0 document to an HTML5 Canvas document
  • Publish an Adobe AIR application for the desktop
  • Publish a projector for Windows and Mac OS
  • Test mobile interactions in the AIR Debug Launcher
  • Understand publishing for the iPhone or Android

All necessary course materials are included.

Certification(s):

This course prepares a student to take the Adobe Multiplatform animation using Adobe Animate CC certification exam.


System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

  • Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

  • CPU: 1 GHz or higher
  • RAM: 4 GB or higher
  • Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
  • Speakers / Headphones
  • Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

  • Windows 7 or higher.
  • Mac OSX 10 or higher.
  • Latest Chrome OS
  • Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

  • Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
  • Latest Mozilla FireFox
  • Latest Microsoft Edge
  • Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

  • Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
  • PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
  • Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.


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