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Adobe Animate Essentials

Length 1 day

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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.

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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).

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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.