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Adobe Animate CC 2018 release CLASSROOM IN A BOOK® The official training workbook from Adobe Russell Chun Adobe Animate CC Classroom in a Book® (2018 release) © 2018 Adobe. All rights reserved. Adobe Press is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc. For the latest on Adobe Press books, go to www.adobepress.com. To report errors, please send a note to [email protected]. For information regarding permissions, request forms, and the appropriate contacts within the Pearson Education Global Rights & Permissions department, please visit www.pearsoned.com/permissions/. If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement, this guide, as well as the soft- ware described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. 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Executive Editor: Nancy Davis Keystroker: Karyn Johnson Senior Production Editor: Tracey Croom Compositor: Happenstance Type-O-Rama Development Editor: Victor Gavenda Indexer: Valerie Perry Project Editor: Happenstance Type-O-Rama Cover Designer: Eddie Yuen Copy Editor: Scout Festa Cover Illustration: Mario De Meyer (Belgium), Proofreader: Elizabeth Welch behance.net/DM2graphics Technical Reviewer: Joseph Labrecque Interior Designer: Mimi Heft Printed and bound in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-0-13-485253-9 ISBN-10: 0-13-485253-2 1 17 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS AT A GLANCE GETTING STARTED xiii 1 GETTING ACQUAINTED 1 2 CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT 36 3 CREATING AND EDITING SYMBOLS 84 4 ANIMATING SYMBOLS 122 5 ADVANCED MOTION TWEENING 162 6 CLASSIC TWEENING 196 7 CONTROLLING THE CAMERA 234 8 ANIMATING SHAPES AND USING MASKS 264 9 NATURAL AND CHARACTER ANIMATION 298 10 CREATING INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION 340 11 WORKING WITH SOUND AND VIDEO 386 12 PUBLISHING 422 INDEX 446 ADOBE ANIMATE CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2018 RELEASE) v This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS GETTING STARTED xiii 1 GETTING ACQUAINTED 1 Starting Adobe Animate CC and Opening a File . 2 Understanding Document Types . 4 Getting to Know the Workspace . 5 Working with the Library Panel . 9 Understanding the Timeline . 11 Organizing Layers in a Timeline . 19 Using the Properties Panel . 23 Using the Tools Panel . 27 Undoing Steps in Animate . 30 Previewing Your Movie . 31 Modifying the Content and Stage . 32 Saving Your Movie . 34 2 CREATING GRAPHICS AND TEXT 36 Getting Started . 38 Understanding Strokes and Fills . 38 Creating Shapes . 39 Making Selections . 40 Editing Shapes . 41 Using Gradient and Bitmap Fills . 45 Using Variable-Width Strokes . 49 Using Swatches and Tagged Swatches . 51 Creating Curves . 55 Using Transparency to Create Depth . 59 Being Expressive with the Paint Brush . 61 Creating and Editing Text . 69 Aligning and Distributing Objects . 77 Converting and Exporting Art . 79 ADOBE ANIMATE CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2018 RELEASE) vii 3 CREATING AND EDITING SYMBOLS 84 Getting Started . 86 Importing Adobe Illustrator Files . 87 About Symbols . 91 Creating Symbols . 92 Importing Adobe Photoshop Files . 94 Editing and Managing Symbols . 98 Changing the Size and Position of Instances . 104 Changing the Color Effect of an Instance . 108 Understanding Display Options . 110 Applying Filters for Special Effects . 111 Positioning Objects in 3D Space . .. 112 4 ANIMATING SYMBOLS 122 Getting Started . 124 About Animation . 125 Understanding the Project File . 125 Animating Position . 126 Changing the Pacing and Timing . 129 Animating Transparency . 135 Animating Filters . 137 Animating Transformations . 140 Changing the Path of the Motion . 143 Swapping Tween Targets . 147 Creating Nested Animations . 148 Easing . 151 Frame-by-Frame Animation . 154 Animating 3D Motion . .. 156 Exporting Your Final Movie . 159 5 ADVANCED MOTION TWEENING 162 Getting Started . 164 About the Motion Editor . 165 Understanding the Project File . 166 Adding Motion Tweens . 167 viii CONTENTS Editing Property Curves . 168 Viewing Options for the Motion Editor . 174 Copying and Pasting Curves . 175 Adding Complex Eases . 179 6 CLASSIC TWEENING 196 Getting Started . 198 Using Classic Tweens . 199 Motion Guides for Classic Tweens . 211 Copying and Pasting Tweens . 220 Classic Tween Eases . 222 Graphic Symbols . 226 7 CONTROLLING THE CAMERA 234 Animating Camera Moves . .. 236 Getting Started . 236 Using the Camera . .. 239 Creating Depth . 249 Attaching Layers to the Camera for Fixed Graphics . 255 Exporting Your Final Movie . 260 8 ANIMATING SHAPES AND USING MASKS 264 Getting Started . 266 Animating Shapes . 266 Understanding the Project File . 267 Creating a Shape Tween . 267 Changing the Pace . 270 Adding More Shape Tweens . .. 271 Creating a Looping Animation . 274 Using Shape Hints . 278 Previewing Animations with Onion Skinning . 282 Animating Color . 285 Creating and Using Masks . .. 289 Animating the Mask and Masked Layers . 292 Easing a Shape Tween . 296 ADOBE ANIMATE CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2018 RELEASE) ix 9 NATURAL AND CHARACTER ANIMATION 298 Getting Started . 300 Natural Motion and Character Animation with Inverse Kinematics . 300 Creating a Walk Cycle . 311 Disabling and Constraining Joints . 315 Adding Poses . 322 Inverse Kinematics with Shapes . 325 Simulating Physics with Springiness . 333 10 CREATING INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION 340 Getting Started . 342 About Interactive Movies . 343 ActionScript and JavaScript . 343 Creating