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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Working with Advanced Layers mode

In this section, we'll have a look at Advanced Layers mode, how it differs from Basic Layers mode, and the benefits to using Advanced Layers within your Animate projects.

If you want to animate through Layer Parenting mechanisms, you must be able to use Advanced Layers mode within your Animate document. This is a special document setting that is on by default when using current versions of the software and allows for numerous advanced capabilities, such as Layer Parenting, Layer Depth, the use of the Camera, Layer Filters, and Layer Effects.

We'll first have a look at the two different layer modes available in Animate and a couple of items you should be aware of when choosing one over the other.

Assessing Layer Mode Benefits and Gotchas

While Advanced Layers is now enabled by default with any new document you create, there may be projects where you would prefer to work in Basic Layers mode instead. Additionally, you should...