Adobe Animate Training Course for Multimedia Vector Animation

Beginners Adobe Animate Training Course

On this two-day introductory Adobe Animate course you will learn how to create your first frame-by-frame animations using keyframes, tweens, digital animatronics and basic character rigging with techniques for 'natural' motion using Kinematics, adding animation to static images and working with animated effects.

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With Adobe's powerful 2D vector animation software you are able to start out with static images and artwork and use them to produce, direct and create your own animations and interactive content for shows, cartoons, avatars, entertainment, gaming, advertising and infographics.

What are the Adobe Animate Training Course Prerequisites?

In order to attend our two-day Adobe Animate Training Course for Multimedia Vector Animation don't need any prior knowledge of Adobe Animate, but should be familiar with using a keyboard and a mouse and have access to a full license for the software (either On-Premise or Creative Cloud subscription). If your learners already have some self-taught experience with Adobe Animate but feel more comfortable starting from scratch that's fine too.

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On-site Beginners Adobe Animate Courses in the United Kingdom

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for Adobe Animate are delivered as private courses for your delegates offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your learning needs. One of our trainers will discuss your training requirements with you prior to the course.

These Adobe Animate training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups and are exceptional value and very popular. You will usually need to book at least one month in advance. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for Adobe Animate training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

Live Virtual Classroom Adobe Animate Courses, UK and Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Adobe Animate courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Adobe Animate courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).

We come to you: Our regional, mobile Adobe Animate trainers cover most locations of mainland UK for on-site visits including the English regions of the West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, most of the North West, most of Greater London, parts of the South West (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol area, Gloucestershire), parts of the East of England (Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire) and the western and northerly parts of the South East (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire). Virtual classroom courses are available from anywhere via live video conferencing.

Our Adobe Animate Trainers are:

Specialist educators with a wealth of experience and expertise, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Our Closed Adobe Animate Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

Education is Our Passion:

Over 18,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.

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Adobe Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses for Businesses

Instructor-led Adobe Animate training provided in-person with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
Dynamic and interactive Adobe Animate courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
The personal touch: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe Animate functions, design features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
Private, corporate Adobe Animate training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of Adobe software knowledge that you require.

What is Adobe Animate?

Adobe Animate is Adobe's state-of-the-art 2D vector animation software which used to be known as Flash. It has evolved into a powerful tool for modern digital animatronics with sophisticated warping and rigging capabilities, extensive assets and the ability to add motion to static artwork from PhotoShop and Illustrator.

Adobe Animate Training Course for Multimedia Vector Animation - two day course

Adobe Animate Beginners Training Course Topics & Outline

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and the actual course content, topics and syllabus taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements.

Introducing Adobe Animate
- What is Adobe Animate?
- Tools Panel and Tools Properties
- Working with Adobe Animate Panels
- Utilising Libraries and Library Resources
- Setting Design Preferences
Building your First Adobe Animate Project
- Adobe Animate for the Web: WebGL (Web Graphics Library) and HTML5
- Understanding Animation File Types
- Setting up your Project Document
- Working with Size /FPS (Frame Rate Per Second)
Adobe Animate Assets
- What are Assets?
- Exploring Assets and Adobe Stock
- Asset Repositories / Acquiring Assets
- Using Adobe Illustrator Images in Animate
Configuring the Authoring Environment in Adobe Animate
- Using Grids, Guides and Rulers
- What is the 'Stage' in Adobe Animate?
- Using the Animate Stage
- Copying and Moving Content
- Useful Shortcut Keys and Un-dos
- Arranging and Transforming Animation Objects
Working with Shapes and Drawing in Adobe Animate
- Understanding Adobe Animate Drawing Modes
- Creating, Editing and Overlapping Shapes
- Working with Colours and Colour Gradients
- Shape Fills and Strokes
- Techniques for Lines (Inserting and Editing)
- Working with the Brush Tool
Working with Layers in Adobe Animate
- An Introduction to Layers in the Adobe Animate Environment
- Setting a Background Layer or Stage
Working with the Adobe Animate Timeline
- Using the Timeline
- Setting a Background Layer or Stage in the Timeline
- What is a Keyframe?
- Manipulating Keyframes (Add, Edit, Delete)
- Working with Multiple Timelines
Introducing Animatronics for Adobe Animate
- What is Digital Animatronics?
- Creating a Basic Animation
- What is Tweened Animation?¹
- Creating your First Classic Tween
- Making an Animation using a Shape Tween
- Working with Frame-by-Frame Animation
- Easing (acceleration or deceleration to create 'natural' motion)
- Using Motion Guides
- Working with Nested Timelines
- Previewing your Animation
Introducing Character Rigs² for Adobe Animate
- Creating a Basic Character Animation
- Creating a Motion Tween-Based Animation
- What is Kinematics³ (Chained and Branched 'natural' motion)?
- Forward Kinematics (FK) / Inverse Kinematics (IK)
- Working with Points of Rotation /Anchor Points
- Parenting View / Forward Kinematics Chains
- Understanding the Bone Tool for Inverse Kinematics (Chained/Branched Natural Motion)
Working with Symbols in Adobe Animate
- What are Symbols (Graphic and MovieClip Symbols etc.)?
- Inserting a New Symbol
- Converting to a Symbol
- Copying Frames to Symbols
- Editing Symbol Instances
- Symbols the Libraries Panel
Working with Banners in Adobe Animate
- Creating your First Web Banner
- Importing Images and Layers from Adobe Illustrator
- Adding Text to your Banners
Exporting your Adobe Animate Project
- Exporting Animate Projects
- Exporting to Multiple Platforms
- Publishing Animate Projects
- Exporting versus Publishing
- Understanding Export Formats
- Export to HTML5
- Configuring Publishing Settings

Notes: Adobe Animate Terminology in Layman's Terms:

1) In animation and motion graphics Tweening is the process of moving a character or object between one keyframe and the next with a smooth transition. With Tweening you can generate keyframes automatically without needing to manually sketch each frame. Tweening can be used to create more natural motion for activities such as walking, running, jumping, falling or even flying.

2) Character rigging is the process of taking a static image of a character's body and rigging its moveable parts to control things such as movement, gestures and expressions and their contextual relationship with movement in other parts of the whole rig. Parts within the rig are chained or branched in parent-child (hierarchical) relationships so that body parts move in relation to one another. The most commonly rigged body parts include moveable limbs, joints and facial features. You can think of rigging as an artificial skeleton which defines the extent of the mechanical movement that is possible for each part of the whole.

3) In simple terms, Kinematics is the movement of geometrical shapes (such as our character rigging) which is undetermined by external forces upon motion such as gravity, friction and air resistance. As such, Kinematics is all about how objects move and not why they do so.

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