How to Cheat in Adobe Animate CC from Focal Press is a goldmine of artistic inspiration, time-saving practical tips, and step-by-step walkthroughs. Let your sasquatch sunbathe, your coyote howl, and your lint spider see the light of day. With real-world projects and project source files, you can follow along and try for yourself. This book includes all-new content and cheats for Animate CC, such as making cinemagraphs, creating a double exposure effect, speeding up the process of making real life doodles, simulating a bokeh effect, converting your documents to HTML5, and more.
- Glimpse into the workflow of digital media and animation experts and apply practical techniques and tips to your own projects with source files, examples, and tutorials
- Learn a myriad of tricks based on real-life working methods to help you work faster and more efficiently with new features in Adobe Animate CC and the Creative Cloud
- Work from the problem to the solution to gain the best possible results from Animate
Chapter 2: Design Styles
Chapter 3: Transformation and Distortion
Chapter 4: Masking
Chapter 5: Motion Techniques
Chapter 6: Character Animation
Chapter 7: Animation Examples
Chapter 8: Working with Sound
Chapter 9: Output Options
Chapter 10: Interactivity
Chris Georgenes spent a very long time as a freelance designer and animator specializing in Adobe Flash and Animate. Before that he worked for a small software company producing animated television shows for networks such as ABC and Cartoon Network. Chris spent a decade in the casual gaming arena designing and animating for Acclaim Games, Playdom, Disney Interactive, and GSN Games. He was also a weekly featured live streamer on the popular Adobe Creative Channel on Twitch. Today Chris is enjoying his position as Head of Interactive Design for a Boston based startup called Patient Discovery. Chris continues to teach animation, write articles for Adobe, evangelize as an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), and pursue his lifelong professional music career behind a set of drums almost every weekend.