Key details

Teaches a range of complex features and techniques that you can use to achieve sophisticated designs and impressive animations and interactivity. Sessions include:

• Tweening.
• Masking.
• Banner ads.
• ActionScript interactivity.
• Effects and filters.
• Inverse kinematics.
• Advanced audio and video.

This course is ideal is for existing users who want to take their use of Adobe Animate to the next level.

Intermediate Animate training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Expert trainers

Animate courses are hosted by expert trainers, with vast professional experience of using the application to produce animations. For details, see Expert trainers.

Animate training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A practical Animate training guide, to refer to during the course and use as a refresher after. Choose from a printed, bound guide or a PDF – whatever suits you best. If you’re participating online and you choose a printed guide, we’ll post this to you.

• An e-certificate confirming successful course completion. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following Adobe Animate training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their Adobe Animate trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of Animate, i.e. have attended have attended Introduction to Animate training or have equivalent knowledge.

Adobe Animate version

Training can be based on any recent version of Adobe Animate to suit you.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Animate training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Intermediate Animate course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Intermediate Animate course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

Intermediate Animate training courses are hosted by:

• Marek Mularczyk
• Mark Waterfield

Marek Mularczyk

Marek is an Adobe Design, Video and Motion Specialist, and an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI).

Voted as one of top 10 Adobe Certified Instructors in the world, Marek has over 15 years’ experience as an animator and photo/video editor, and has published numerous books on these topics.

As an instructor, Marek has trained a wide range of blue-chip clients including Lloyds, Barclays, HS2, Lululemon, Asos, Boohoo, Sony, Samsung, and many more.

Prior to focusing on training, Marek worked as a professional photographer for over 12 years. Photography remains his passion, and in his spare time he travels Europe in search of that perfect picture.

Mark Waterfield

Mark works as a professional e-Learning developer. He is a recognised expert in all aspects of e-Learning, including hosting and LMS development.

Mark has used Adobe Captivate since it’s inception, and is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in the application. He also uses Articulate Storyline extensively in his professional work.

Prior to focusing on e-Learning, Mark worked in website development and Flash programming. He is an expert user of Adobe Animate, which he uses to create animations to incorporate into his e-learning tutorials, bringing them to life.

Away from e-Learning, Mark works in the music industry as a programmer, writer, producer and performer. He recently co-wrote a song featured in the Oscar nominated movie ‘Volver’, starring Penelope Cruz.

Course content

Advanced animation techniques

• Using the Motion Editor
• Easing
• 3D motion
• Simulating physics with spring feature

Creating interactive Navigation

• Understanding Interactive Movies
• Creating buttons
• Creating destination keyframes
• Animating buttons

Advanced text

• Understanding TFL text
• Adding Multiple columns
• Wrapping text

Tweening

• Tweening and the Timeline
• Swapping tween targets
• Guiding the objects
• Creating paths
• Editing paths
• Subselection tool
• Importing Photoshop artwork
• Importing Illustrator artwork

Masking

• Using masks in Animate
• Creating mask layers
• Animating masked content
• Masking content with AS 3.0
• Removing masking

Creating banner ads

• Tips on creating HTML5 banner ads
• Banner ad sizes
• Creating expandable banners
• Creating banner ads with transparency

ActionScript interactivity

• Scripting code
• Using actions panel
• Adding actions
• Removing actions
• Adding code to frames
• Adding code to objects
• Controlling symbols with actions
• Creating ActionScript functions
• Working with dynamic text fields

Working with effects and filters

• Color and brightness effects
• Tint and alpha effects
• Advanced effects
• Animated filters
• Applying and removing filters
• Copying filters
• Creating filter presets

Advanced inverse kinematics

• Creating bone structures
• Inverse kinematics with movie clips
• Inverse kinematics with shapes
• Animating inverse kinematics structures

Working with audio

• Using sounds
• Importing sounds
• Stream sounds
• Event sounds
• Supported sound file formats
• Editing sounds in Animate
• Sounds library

Working with video

• Understanding video
• Using Adobe Media Encoder
• Playback of external video
• Importing video
• Supported video file formats
• Streaming or downloading video
• Using cue points
• Embedding video
• Using FLV and F4V videos
• Using MP4 videos
• Import Video wizard
• Controlling video playback

Digital Magazines (DPS)

• Design considerations for animated content for digital magazines
• Planning animated magazine cover design
• Creating an animated magazine cover
• Exporting animated magazine cover from Animate
• Importing animated magazine cover into InDesign

Advanced exporting and converting

• Converting documents to other formats
• Document converter
• Converting animations to HTML5
• Exporting raster images as Sprite Sheets
• Creating Android, iOS and AIR apps
• Packaging apps for Android, iOS, AIR

Advanced publishing

• Different formats available
• Understanding the bandwidth profiler
• Adding metadata
• Publishing a movie for the Web
• Creating standalone applications

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Animate course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Animate.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Intermediate Animate courses…

• Are presented by Adobe Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Animate.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Animate installed. If you don’t have access to Animate, we can usually send you a link to fully-functional trial software to download and install.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Animate doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t, however, be able to assist with your Animate installation.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time