Mastering Adobe Animate 2023 - Third Edition: A comprehensive guide to designing modern, animated, and interactive content using Animate

by Joseph Labrecque

Become an accomplished motion designer, animator, and interactive content producer with the help of expert-led material Adobe Animate is a platform-agnostic asset creation application that enables you to create motion design and vector animations while facilitating interactivity across other Adobe software such as After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This book comes packed with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walk-throughs of practical examples, guiding you in using Animate to create immersive experiences and breaking the walls of creative limitations. In this third edition, you'll begin by getting up to speed with the features of Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to set up Animate as a creative platform and explore the enhancements introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for different platforms through the publish and export workflows. You'll explore advanced rigging workflows and discover how to create more dynamic animations with complex depth and movement techniques. As the book demonstrates different ways of channeling your creativity through Animate, you'll be able to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, generative art, and apps for various platforms. Finally, this graphic design book covers the different methods used to extend the software to meet various user requirements. By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic designs, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices. This book is for web, graphic, and motion design professionals with basic experience in animation who want to take their existing skills to the next level. A clear understanding of fundamental animation concepts will help you to get the most out of this book and produce impressive results.

438 pages, Paperback

Published February 3, 2023

Reviews

[Jess Telmanik · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm very comfortable in a lot Adobe programs as a Graphic Designer. But in terms of Video/Animation/Motion, I'm still more on the beginner side of things. I was looking to expand my knowledge and confidence within Adobe Animate. AND THIS BOOK HELPED!!

I found following along to be easy, even with my limited familiarity in Animate. The chapters and sections are broken down logically and sensibly, tutorials are easy to follow, the actual history of Animate was fascinating and the index is BEAUTIFUL (Yeah weird I know but I always appreciate an organized index at hand when learning something new)!

Admittedly Part 3 (focusing on things like Adobe AIR, Web based games and VR) is a bit beyond my current skillset, but would be perfect for more advanced users than I, so don't pass this book up if you're a pro, you'll still learn something new!

Overall, highly recommend Mastering Adobe Animate (and after reading this one, any book by Joseph Labrecque) whether you're just starting out, looking to improve or really want to up your Animate skills! Happy Learning!