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Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals

You're reading from   Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals Implement professional techniques and create vivid animated and interactive content with Animate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232799
Length 464 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joseph Labrecque Joseph Labrecque
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Table of Contents (19) 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: Manipulating Warped Objects through Advanced Rigging 12. Chapter 10: Working with the Camera and Layer Depth 13. Section 3 – Exploring Additional Platforms
14. Chapter 11: Developing Web-Based Games 15. Chapter 12: Producing Virtual Reality Content for WebGL 16. Chapter 13: Building Apps for Desktop and Mobile 17. Chapter 14: Extending Adobe Animate 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Warped Objects and the Asset Warp Tool

Using the Asset Warp tool, we can create a special kind of object—a Warped Object—out of vector shapes or bitmap images. This object type includes the underlying artwork within a container that exhibits a distortion mesh. This allows the mesh to influence the artwork within through the use of Pins and Bones. Warped Objects are somewhat similar to symbols, but they will not appear within the Library as symbols do. They can, however, be animated like symbols through the use of keyframes and Classic Tweens.

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Be sure that you do not attempt to use the Asset Warp tool on a symbol instance—it simply will not work.

Initially, Warped Objects and the Asset Warp tool were added to Animate 2019 in October 2018. Despite the feature being part of the application for nearly 3 years, not much had been done to expand upon the workflows originally introduced with the tool since then. This has all changed with the release of Animate...

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