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

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Sharing Content as Animate Asset Packages

A new method of getting content out of Animate is the ability to export Animate Asset (.ana) files. These files can contain packaged objects, motions, bones, and audio for personal backup or distribution to other Animate users. This differs a bit from the other export options we've seen since the intended platform of use is Animate itself!

The most direct way of exporting Animate Asset files is from the Library panel:

Figure 4.15 – Sharing a single asset

If you right-click on a symbol in the Library panel, you are given two menu options regarding Animate Asset files. Choosing Export Asset… will create a .ana file on your filesystem. Selecting Save As Asset… will not produce a .ana file but rather add the asset directly into your Assets panel without an intermediary import process.

Another mechanism for exporting assets can be found in the application menu by choosing File | Export ...