Introduction to Adobe Animate

If you are curious about animation and want to get started in this exciting discipline, Adobe Animate is a program that offers endless possibilities for creating and manipulating vector graphics, with which you can give life to your projects and characters. In this 5-course Domestika Basics, you will be able to master alongside the animator Josep Bernaus the software Adobe Animate CC 2019 and its tools, starting from scratch and discovering its advantages over other animation programs.

In the first course, you will know the interface of the program, organize your work area, create your first document and start using the basic tools and panels.

In the second course, you will become familiar with the timeline, work with the playback controls by viewing the loop option and learn to create masks and work in layers.

It will be in the next course when you start drawing in Animate. You will see the differences between pencil and brush as well as the pros and cons of drawing as a stroke and fill in animation. You will learn to customize your brushes and use them to animate elements.

In the fourth course, you will learn to import and use external elements of image, video and audio. You will start in the world of graphic symbols and their different modes of reproduction. You will also make your first lip sync in a character, and you will see several export options.

In the last course, you will learn to use animation curves, applied to concepts of acceleration or deceleration of movement. You will use movie clips and movement guides, and you will learn to use related layers for the animation of a character. You will get to use and master the camera to make movements.