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Adobe Animate Essentials

  • Length 1 day
  • Price  $594 inc GST
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Why study this course

Adobe Animate® software is widely used in industries such as graphic design, marketing, advertising, and media production. Having employees with strong Adobe Animate skills can significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of your organisation's visual content creation, branding, and marketing efforts.

Master Adobe Animate to create cutting-edge interactive animations for multiple platforms, including iPhones, iPads, mobiles, tablets, and computers. This course covers professional techniques for building smooth and consistent animations with interactivity, including DFP DoubleClick for Publishers click-through code. Animate's intuitive interface integrates seamlessly with Photoshop and Illustrator, producing the HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript required for web elements and HTML5 banner ads.

Our courses include practical exercises and industry-relevant training, and no prior coding experience is necessary.

Nexacu Public Schedule

Nexacu is part of the Lumify Group, offering you an extensive public schedule of Adobe end user training in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. You can now access the schedule of courses and book, by clicking on the button below.

What you can expect with Nexacu Adobe Training

  • Small classes (average 4 to 6)

  • Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC) with industry experienced, certified instructors

  • Course eBook and sample files

  • Class exercises relevant to industry

  • AATC Adobe endorsed certificate upon course completion

  • After-course support

  • Free course resit (6 months) *

* Free resit applies to all public courses; does not include custom or private training.

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What you’ll learn

After completing this course, students will have the knowledge to:

  • Navigate the Adobe Animate workspace and utilise its key tools

  • Create and import graphics optimised for animation

  • Master animation techniques, including tweening and working with symbols

  • Add interactive elements and use basic coding for responsive designs

  • Export animations in various formats, including HTML5 for web use


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Adobe's suite of applications includes some of the most widely used multimedia creation software in the world. Learn Adobe's market-leading apps for graphic design, image manipulation, video editing, animation, and more.
Nexacu, part of the Lumify Group, is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC).


Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for:

  • Web designers wanting to add dynamic content to their sites

  • Marketers and advertisers needing to create interactive banner ads

  • Creatives ready to explore the world of animation


Course subjects

Animate Basics

  • What Animate does, and how it works

  • About Vector graphics and bitmaps

  • The Animate workspace

  • Setting Stage dimensions, background colour, frame rate and scaling options

Drawing in Animate

  • Using the Animate drawing tools – the paint brush, shape tools

  • Shape and Object drawing modes

  • Applying arrowheads and variable line widths

  • Selecting and applying colours

  • Creating complex elements by merging and subtracting

  • Grouping elements

  • Stacking order

  • Scaling and rotating elements

Banner Ads

  • Optimising content and animation for file size

  • Adding Click Through code to html file

  • Adding Click Through code to Ad

  • Correct export settings for an Ad

Importing Graphics

  • Understanding file formats and how they are optimised by Animate

  • Importing bitmapped images from Photoshop

  • Importing bitmapped images from Illustrator

  • Asset preparation – understanding compression and file size

  • Importing vector graphics from Illustrator

Animation Techniques

  • Understanding Keyframes and Tweens

  • Motion Tweening

  • Classic Tweening

  • Shape Tweening

  • Start and End Points

  • Multiple Keyframes

  • Simple Easing

  • Animating text

  • Animating fades and colour effects

  • Morph between shapes

Symbols

  • Understanding the different symbol types

  • Complex animation with symbols

  • Creating reusable elements

  • Editing instances

  • Editing original symbols

Interactivity and Coding

  • Adding simple scripts using code snippets

  • Stopping a movie

  • Creating simple interactive elements with button symbols

Output

  • Exporting video

  • Publish settings for HTML5


Prerequisites

Basic computer skills are helpful, but no prior animation or coding experience is required.


Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.


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Nexacu Public Schedule

Nexacu is part of the Lumify Group, offering you an extensive public schedule of Adobe end user training in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. You can now access the schedule of courses and book, by clicking on the button below.




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