Students often tend to learn only what the teacher teaches them, rather than taking the initiative to explore and learn beyond what is covered in class.
You should not expect to learn everything from your teacher. What I teach you in class is only a starting point. You need to take the initiative to explore, practice, and learn beyond what I teach you.
Intro to Adobe Animate
- Overview
- Tools:
- Selection | Subselection
- Free transform | Gradient transform
- Lasso
- Fluid brush
- Classic brush
- Eraser
- Rectangle | Oval
- Line
- Pen
- Text
- Paint bucket | Ink bottle
- Eyedropper
- Asset warp: Create a digital skeleton for characters to control their movement
- Hand
- Zoom
- Shape option: Smoothen / Straighten
- Timeline:
- Layer
- Loop
- Onionskin
- In Adobe Animate, onion skinning is a feature that displays the contents of the frames before and after the current one as semi-transparent overlays. This allows you to reference your previous work as you draw new frames, which is crucial for creating smooth, frame-by-frame animation.
- In Adobe Animate, onion skinning is a feature that displays the contents of the frames before and after the current one as semi-transparent overlays. This allows you to reference your previous work as you draw new frames, which is crucial for creating smooth, frame-by-frame animation.
- Frame, Keyframe and Blank keyframe
- A frame is a basic unit of time in a timeline
- while a keyframe is a specific type of frame that marks a significant change in an animation, containing distinct content.
- A blank keyframe is a type of keyframe that is completely empty, used to indicate a pause or a starting point for new, independent content without duplicating what came before it.
- A frame is a basic unit of time in a timeline
- Properties
- Library
- Fundamentals
- Frame-by-frame: means creating animation (or analyzing video) by drawing/changing each individual picture (frame) in a sequence, one after another, to build up continuous motion, like a digital flipbook, giving complete artistic control but requiring significant time and effort.
- Motion tweens vs Shape tweens
- Motion tweens move an object through its properties (position, size, rotation) along a path,
- while shape tweens morph one shape into another, blending colors and creating transformations between them
- Choose a motion tween for simple object movement or animation between scenes, and a shape tween for morphing effects and transitions that involve the changing of a shape itself.
- Graph editor: Easy In & Easy out. Refine motion tween
- Transform
- Anchor Points
- Motion Paths, Guide
- Blend: Multiply, Screen, Overlay,...
- Filters: drop shadow, blur, glow,...
- Textures
- Scenes
- Sound: Importing and editing audio
- Export