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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Designing a Document for the Native Web

While we spoke in some detail about different document types and publishing platforms in Chapter 2, Exploring Platform-Specific Considerations, and Chapter 4, Publishing and Exporting Creative Content, we haven't really focused on any particular platform when creating and animating content. This chapter changes that as we will be entirely focused on the native web in everything we do.

The first step in designing content for the web such as digital advertisements or interactive infographics is to create a document that targets these technologies and get our assets together.

Creating a New Document for Digital Advertising

We'll first create a new document that targets native web technologies from the various presets available to us in Adobe Animate. The New Document dialog includes a series of categories containing focused sets of presets to be used. You can access this dialog by choosing File | New or through the Create New...