You're reading from Mastering Adobe Animate 2021 Explore professional techniques and best practices to design vivid animations and interactive content

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074162

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed

2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Adobe Animate FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations

4. Chapter 3: Settling into the User Interface

5. Chapter 4: Publishing and Exporting Creative Content

6. Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Creating and Manipulating Media Content

8. Chapter 6: Interactive Motion Graphics for the Web

9. Chapter 7: Character Design through Layer Parenting

10. Chapter 8: Animating Poses with IK Armatures

11. Chapter 9: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth

12. Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

13. Chapter 10: Developing Web-Based Games

14. Chapter 11: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL

15. Chapter 12: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile

16. Chapter 13: Extending Adobe Animate

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