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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232799

Length 464 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Adobe Animate

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Joseph Labrecque

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Table of Contents (19) 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: 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

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Understanding ActionScript 3.0 Documents

It makes sense to first explore what was at one time the single target platform supported by Animate for most of its existence: Flash Player and the .swf file format. Since Flash Player is a runtime, it exists to execute a packaged set of assets and data in order to run a program. The .swf file format is basically a compressed little bundle of creative assets and code that Animate can publish for this purpose.

Note

ActionScript 3.0 used to be used to produce all sorts of rich, interactive content. With the deprecation of Flash Player in the web browser, however, the role of .swf has become more focused.

There is a bit of confusion around the naming of this document type within Animate, as you won't find a document type that targets "Flash Player" or "SWF" but rather "ActionScript 3.0" instead.

Figure 2.5 – The ActionScript 3.0 document type

Newcomers are often confused...

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