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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Managing Workspaces and Panels

As we've seen, the Animate interface consists of a series of panels, arranged in specific configurations. These configurations are called workspaces, and you can easily switch between them by using the workspace switcher. You can even configure and save your own custom workspaces!

We'll now see how to access and switch between workspaces in Animate, and also how to build your own!

Using the Default Workspaces

Animate comes with a number of pre-configured workspaces to choose from. As we saw earlier, depending upon your initial choices when first running Animate with a fresh installation, you will either be using the Essentials or the Basic workspaces.

You will find these default workspaces and more by activating the workspace switcher in the upper right-hand corner of the interface. Again, the icon looks like a tiny application window.

You initially have a choice between eight different workspaces: