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Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074162
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding and Manipulating the Layer Depth

In this section, we are going to learn how to manipulate the depth of layers within an Animate project. While panning and zooming the camera can be very effective, we can enhance everything we do with the camera by using another feature of Advanced Layers mode in the form of Layer Depth. This feature allows us to place specific layers closer or farther from each other and the camera to simulate a difference of depth across each one. The result is that as the camera changes property setting values across time, the view shifts across the variety of depth settings, providing a feeling of enhanced immersion.

Let's explore the mechanism that allows us to adjust the depth settings of our various layers and then use it to modify the depth of the layers currently present within our project.

Activating the Layer Depth Panel

By default, the Layer Depth panel is visible in the Essentials workspace, minimized to icon view along the...

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