Beginning Adobe Animate CC

Beginning Adobe Animate CC Learn to Efficiently Create and Deploy Animated and Interactive Content Tom Green Joseph Labrecque Beginning Adobe Animate CC: Learn to Efficiently Create and Deploy Animated and Interactive Content Tom Green Joseph Labrecque OAKVILLE, Ontario, Canada Thornton, Colorado, USA ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-2375-8 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4842-2376-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4842-2376-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017934517 Copyright © 2017 by Tom Green and Joseph Labrecque This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Contents at a Glance About the Authors ...................................................................................................xix About the Technical Reviewer ................................................................................xxi Acknowledgments ................................................................................................xxiii Introduction ...........................................................................................................xxv ■ Chapter 1: Learning the Animate CC Interface ...................................................... 1 ■ Chapter 2: Graphics in Animate CC ...................................................................... 57 ■ Chapter 3: Symbols and Libraries ..................................................................... 123 ■ Chapter 4: Interactivity Basics .......................................................................... 181 ■ Chapter 5: Audio in Animate CC ........................................................................ 249 ■ Chapter 6: Text in Animate CC ........................................................................... 281 ■ Chapter 7: Animation ......................................................................................... 313 ■ Chapter 8: The Motion Editor and Inverse Kinematics ...................................... 391 ■ Chapter 9: Animate CC and the Third Dimension ............................................... 457 ■ Chapter 10: Video .............................................................................................. 477 ■ Chapter 11: Components and External Media ................................................... 519 ■ Chapter 12: Optimizing and Publishing Animate CC Projects ........................... 563 Index ..................................................................................................................... 589 v Contents About the Authors ...................................................................................................xix About the Technical Reviewer ................................................................................xxi Acknowledgments ................................................................................................xxiii Introduction ...........................................................................................................xxv ■ Chapter 1: Learning the Animate CC Interface ...................................................... 1 Getting Started �� 2 Creating a New Animate CC document �� 3 Managing Your Workspace ��5 Setting Document Preferences and Properties �� 7 Document Preferences ��8 Document Settings ��9 Zooming the Stage ��10 Exploring the Panels in the Animate CC Interface �� 13 The Timeline ��13 The Properties Panel �� 21 The Tools Panel ��25 The Library Panel ��27 Creative Cloud Library ��28 Using Layers �� 28 Layer Properties ��29 Creating Layers ��30 Adding Content to Layers ��32 Showing/Hiding and Locking Layers ��34 vii ■ CONTENTS Grouping Layers ��35 Where To Get Help ��35 Your Turn: Building an Animate CC Movie �� 36 Adding the Mountains and Playing with Color ��39 Using Trees to Create the Illusion of Depth ��40 Using a Motion Tween To Create a Twinkling Star ��43 A Moon Over Lake Nanagook��45

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