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Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

By : Joseph Labrecque
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Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

Mastering Adobe Animate 2021

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By: Joseph Labrecque

Overview of this book

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and hands-on walkthroughs, this book shows you how to use Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium. You will begin by getting up to speed with what you need to know about Adobe Animate quickly. Next, you will learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in the most recent version of the software. Moving on, you'll consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you’ll delve into advanced rigging techniques and discover how to create more dynamic animation with advanced depth and movement techniques. You’ll also find out how to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, and apps for various platforms. The book concludes with an examination of different methods used to extend the software for various needs. By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion design materials and animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces - all while targeting a variety of platforms including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Up-To-Speed
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Section 2: Animating with Diverse Techniques
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Section 3: Exploring Additional Platforms

Programming the Game with JavaScript

As mentioned in the previous section, Preparing the Game Timeline, Stage, and Library, since we are targeting the native web with an HTML5 Canvas document, we'll be programming our game with JavaScript. Most code in Animate is bound directly to specific keyframes and is executed when the playhead reaches that frame.

The code we will write is composed of variables and functions. When we want to hold data or change data, we use variables. The first time a variable is declared, we use the keyword var. When we need to group a set of instructions together to perform a task, we group them all within a function and then invoke that function when we want to execute the code.

As we start building the code for our game, recall that certain objects exist on the stage already and have been given instance names to allow us to manipulate them. In addition to this, there is a set of objects that only exist within the library and have been given linkage...

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