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Mastering Adobe Animate 2023
Mastering Adobe Animate 2023

Mastering Adobe Animate 2023: A comprehensive guide to designing modern, animated, and interactive content using Animate , Third Edition

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  • Produce rich motion graphics and interactive animations for multiple platforms by exploring the Adobe Animate ecosystem
  • Get acquainted with the key features and enhancements in the latest Adobe Animate release such as depth, layering, and object warping
  • Take your Adobe Animate projects to the next level with creative workflows using diverse animation techniques

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Adobe Animate is a platform-agnostic asset creation application that enables you to create motion design and vector animations while facilitating interactivity across other Adobe software such as After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This book comes packed with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walk-throughs of practical examples, guiding you in using Animate to create immersive experiences and breaking the walls of creative limitations. In this third edition, you’ll begin by getting up to speed with the features of Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to set up Animate as a creative platform and explore the enhancements introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for different platforms through the publish and export workflows. You'll explore advanced rigging workflows and discover how to create more dynamic animations with complex depth and movement techniques. As the book demonstrates different ways of channeling your creativity through Animate, you'll be able to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, generative art, and apps for various platforms. Finally, this graphic design book covers the different methods used to extend the software to meet various user requirements. By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic designs, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.

Who is this book for?

This book is for web, graphic, and motion design professionals with basic experience in animation who want to take their existing skills to the next level. A clear understanding of fundamental animation concepts will help you to get the most out of this book and produce impressive results.

What you will learn

  • Gain an understanding of Adobe Animate foundations and new features
  • Understand how to publish and export rich media content to various platforms
  • Find out how to use advanced layering and rigging techniques to create engaging motion content
  • Explore how to create dynamic motions using variable layer depth techniques
  • Develop web-based games, generative art, virtual reality experiences, and multiplatform mobile applications
  • Make the most of Animate with extensions, application-level scripting, and the creation of custom-integrated tutorials

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Ivana H Apr 09, 2023
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Reading “Mastering Adobe Animate 2023” has been amazing. I didn’t know about the history, and I also didn’t know so many great animated series were made with Adobe Animate!!As someone who is new to animation, I loved that this book provided many resources to start with as well as easy to follow directions. I enjoyed that the steps were explained as well.This book has re-incited my interest and desire to publish my own short animated series!!Thank you, Joseph Labrecque for taking your time to write this!!
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Renaldo Apr 03, 2023
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I have learned so much from this book. Knowing Joseph, I know hard hard he has worked to create this masterpiece. Simply brilliant and well done. Thank you so much for assisting me in learning Adobe Animate. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Claudir Feb 15, 2023
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I highly recommend Joseph Labrecque's 2023 edition of Mastering Adobe Animate to anyone who wants to learn and explore the world of Adobe Animate. The author provides a comprehensive guide to the software, with practical exercises that cover everything from basic 2D animation principles, Virtual Reality use and also to create runtime applications for Windows and MacOS platforms. Labrecque's book is very user-friendly and easy to follow, and each chapter concludes with a summary to aid readers in their research.His professional guidance and expertise in the field make this book a must-have for anyone interested in animation and web game programming.
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H. Heigl Feb 26, 2023
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Author and Adobe Education Leader Joseph Labrecque offers a truly comprehensive guide to Adobe Animate animation software in this 430+ page book, with hands-on labs that cover everything from basic 2D animation principles to using virtual reality to creating Runtime applications for all common platforms.Whether you are a beginner or already experienced in the field, this book is for everyone. The fact that the book is already in its third edition is a testament to the high quality. The book starts with the basics and the basic understanding of computer animations in general and how to use Animate to then animate the first elements and create the first small GIF files and videos from them.Then it's about different animation techniques, layer methods, camera position, image depth, filters and effects. After that, it's about motion sequences and kinematics, warped objects, interactive programming techniques, web-based games, virtual reality, creating programs for desktop and mobile through to in-app extensions and scripting.Labrecque's book is written in a very user-friendly and easy-to-understand manner, and each of the 13 chapters ends with a summary to aid the reader in their research.His professional guidance and expertise in the field make this book a standard reference for anyone interested in animation and web game and animation programming.I can heartily recommend this book to everyone!
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AWit82 Feb 27, 2023
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If you are new to Adobe Animate this is a great resource on how to use the many of the features of the program and how to familairlize yourself with the workspace for your desired project. Each chapter comes with exercise files that include artwork so you don't have to spend any time drawing assets you can get started on animating them right away! For the exercise files, the author provides one untouched "starter" file where you learn from scratch, but if you want to take a look ahead at the final product to see how it's done he provides a separate finished version with all the animation and/or code already in it which I found very helpful.Chapters 1-8 cover the essentials for 2D Animation in Animate like shapes, symbols, motion tweens, shape tweens, motion guides, and the drawing tools to name a few. You will also learn how to add more depth to your scenes with camera moves and layering techniques. If you like to animate with a rigged character there are chapters on how to do that which will create a smooth, flowing movement with all the parts of your character or object connected to one another making animating a lot less complicated.Later on there is some really fun stuff like how to make a game completely within Animate with a kitty that shoots fireballs at a flying pig, or a VR 360 scene where you are immersed in an outdoor park but depending on which way you look a spooky ghost may appear! I haven't kept up with what's new in Animate for a few years but wasn't even aware you could make VR scenes in it until this book.Labrecque obviously knows this program inside-out and is a great teacher to learn from proven by his status as an Adobe Education Leader and I would recommend this book to anyone out there looking to learn Animate.
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