Introduction Adobe Animate CC

Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Systems.

Animate can be used to design vector graphics and animations, and publish the same for television programs, online video, websites, web applications, rich internet applications, and video games. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio and video embedding, and ActionScript scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats.

Here is a fun animation that takes a look at the different aspects of Adobe Flash/Animate:

https://youtu.be/npTC6b5-yvM

Animator vs. Animation is playing with an old version of Adobe Animate called Flash. The program has transitioned to Adobe Animate CC now, but there are many similarities. Watch the video a couple times and you will get to understand the tools and what they do.

Here is an in-depth tutorial in Adobe Animate. 

https://youtu.be/3iXSQ8VcPcU

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0:05:11
Introduction- Starting a new animation and set-up workspaces.
Try starting a new animation, save your animation, and then play around on stage...

0:14:18
Tools & Properties
Next, experiment with the tool bar and explore the different abilities of the tool bar.

0:42:30
Drawing & Coloring
Transfer some of your Illustrator skills to Animate. Both vector graphic programs, have similar ways

0:53:56
Timeline & Utilities
Here's where the movement and timing happens

1:04:28
Animation Basics
Now we're going to start moving... moving along..

1:26:11
Filters & Effects

1:32:01
Libraries

1:37:32
Publishing