Adobe Animate, previously known as Adobe Flash, is the industry standard animation software program. It is user-friendly yet powerful; priced competitively at $20 a month when purchased alongside an Adobe Suite license.
Flexibones provide more realistic motion between keyframes.
It’s easy to use
Adobe Animate, the successor to Flash, is one of the easiest programs to use and customize. Specifically tailored for animators to quickly produce high-quality animation, web content, and games; publishing files as video files to reach multiple platforms simultaneously is also possible with Adobe Animate.
Animate’s timeline is one of its distinguishing features, breaking time down into frames and layers for easier navigation. Each frame provides information about an image on the Stage; furthermore, the timeline displays where animation occurs in documents including frame-by-frame animation as well as tweened effects.
On a timeline’s spans are marked with black dots to signify locations where properties change in an animation. Each span starts off with its first frame being designated as a keyframe; this indicates when an object was changed and can help determine how it should move between those starting and ending points.
Adobe provides tutorials and videos on its website that address many questions about Adobe Animate, while users in its forums can provide support as well.
It’s powerful
Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) is the industry standard animation tool for creating video games, cartoons, banner ads and eLearning content. With powerful vector drawing tools and bone rigging features that help designers craft realistic moving graphics while its scripting capabilities enable interactivity without writing code.
The program utilizes a proprietary file format known as FLA, which can be converted to an SWF movie or Flash Player and viewed on any platform that supports SWF formats – desktops, mobile phones and TV devices alike.
Adobe Animate boasts an impressive tool set, but has an intimidating learning curve. Best suited for 2D character animation and video game design, Adobe Animate may not be suitable for complex 3D animation tasks like Autodesk Maya or Blender which require more powerful, dedicated software programs like these. Furthermore, being subscription based, Adobe Animate may become expensive over time.
It’s easy to learn
Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) is an impressive multimedia program for creating animation and vector graphics, suitable for creating cartoons to complex games and banner ads and eLearning content. Adobe provides numerous short, free tutorials online to assist newcomers get acquainted with Adobe’s software.
Vector drawing is an innovative approach to art design that requires practice to understand. However, once learned it can lead to beautiful scalable graphics with minimal memory requirements.
Documents created using animation software are managed and organized using the timeline, a feature which divides lengths of time into frames. You can use “tweening” to control object movement between starting and end points by setting start and end points and “tweening”, animating automatically between them. Furthermore, using the timeline gives access to panels for color swatches, motion presets and components.
It’s easy to customize
Adobe Animate lets you tailor it to meet your exact needs with its wide array of panels and tools, enabling you to tailor it perfectly to suit any project. It lets you access assets stored in Creative Cloud storage as well as purchase or license them directly; additionally, it’s designed to work flawlessly with other Adobe programs while giving access to thousands of vector images and audio files.
To create an animation, it is necessary to set up a Timeline and use the tools from the Tool panel to modify properties of objects or groups of objects. Graphic filters, blends and other special effects may also be added for extra flair – and don’t forget adding ActionScript(r) code so as to control how media elements behave!
Adobe Animate stands in contrast with After Effects with its steep learning curve in terms of being intuitive and user-friendly, thanks to its vector drawing tools that make creating crisp scalable artwork easy. Furthermore, this program includes several advanced features, such as colored onion skinning and panning the Timeline.