Animate advanced

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Course dates

Remote

  • 02–03 April 2025
  • 25–26 June 2025
  • 24–25 September 2025

Course dates

Remote

  • 02–03 April 2025
  • 25–26 June 2025
  • 24–25 September 2025

We are not currently offering this course as classroom training

Overview

This advanced Animate training course is for those that have previously completed the Animate introduction course - or know over 85% of the course outline and are now ready to push themselves to that next level.

This course will be delivered through our Accelerated learning approach, allowing you to learn more information, easier and more efficiently than standard training approaches.

Throughout your course you'll learn how to implement features that most aren't even aware of. You'll work with tweens, masking, inverse kinematics, sound, video, action script and export to modern file formats.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at graphic designers who have a firm understanding of the basics of Animate design, having attended our Animate Introduction course or through similar industry experience and who want to take their Animate skills up to the next level.

Upon completion, you'll be able to:

  • Master the specialist features that most aren't even aware of in Animate
  • Utilise Animate tweening, masking and adding effects and filters to your projects
  • Create HTML5 banner ads, master actionscript interactivity and create digital magazines
  • Use audio and video, and master advanced exporting and converting options

Prerequisites

You must already possess basic computer skills such as knowing how to open and save files onto a computer.

Accelerated learning

Our Accelerated learning approach at Certitec is unique within the Adobe training industry. Our focus is not on what you learn, but how you learn. Referred to as ‘Accelerated Learning’, this process allows you to digest a significant amount of information more quickly, and more easily than through other methods.

Accelerated learning

  • Establish a firm understanding on the learning process before embarking
  • Overcoming any learned helplessness by reframing what will be learnt upon completion
  • Sessions no longer than 60 minutes each to maximise how we learn 
  • The use of course workbooks to strengthen memory retention (classroom)
  • Finding a balance between new and recap learning
  • Kinaesthetic (‘hands-on’) techniques
  • Video of entire course upon completion (remote)

Find out more about our Accelerated learning process.

Outline

What to expect from this course

This two day training course will focus on learning the advanced features, and who want to take their Animate skills up to the next level, working more heavily with interactive content and development workflows.

You’ll leave the training course with an advanced animate skillset.

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Day one – Development of concepts and putting skills into practice

Animate tweening

  • Tweening and the Timeline
  • 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

Day two – Refining your skills and consolidation

Working with inverse kinematics

  • Inverse Kinematics
  • Creating Bone Structures
  • Inverse Kinematics with Movie Clips
  • Inverse Kinematics with Shapes
  • Animating Inverse Kinematics Structures

Working with audio

  • Importing Sounds
  • Stream Sounds
  • Event Sounds
  • Supported Sound File Formats
  • Editing Sounds in Animate
  • Sounds Library

Working with video

  • Importing Video
  • Supported Video File Formats
  • Streaming or Downloading Video
  • 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

Working with preloaders

  • How Preloaders work
  • Design considerations when creating preloaders
  • Creating HTML5 Preloaders
  • Creating Flash Preloaders
  • Integrating Preloaders into your design

Working with camera in Animate

  • Integrated Virtual Camera
  • Panning the subject of the frame
  • Zooming on the object
  • Rotating the camera
  • Applying colour effects

HTML5 Canvas reusable components

  • How Components work
  • New HTML5 Canvas Components vs Flash Components
  • Integrating components into your designs

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 and AIR

Classroom trainint

Advantages of classroom training

Classroom training has many advantages over other formats of training since in-person interaction and communication plays an extremely important part to absorbing information. 

Classroom training allows you to get trained in a safe, quiet, clean environment, away from the noise and pressures of the office or home. The classroom environment provides the important “human touch,” which is often missing in technology-based training. 

You can’t beat real life interaction when asking important questions and receiving immediate feedback. 

Other benefits of classroom training include:

  • Group interaction. People learn from one another as well as from the trainer
  • Training groups can be large or small
  • Classroom training also teaches us how to interact with one another in a professional, productive, cooperative way, which is something that other forms of training often don’t provide

Remote training

Remote training

Remote professional Adobe training allows high-quality training to be reached from anywhere in the world. Aside from the positive of no travel, our remote training courses also provide you the opportunity to interact with the trainer and ask questions just like you were right in front of them.

FAQs

What are the payment terms?

Please refer to our how to pay document.

How do I enter / use a PO when making my booking?

When you book your course and select the 'company' option - you will be able to enter a PO number into the relevant field. We will then issue your invoice with the PO embedded.

If you missed the PO field - just email us back with your PO and we'll do the rest.

What are the training times?

We start at 9.30 and finish at 4.30pm with plenty of breaks and 40 minutes for lunch. 

Is there any pre or post study required prior to undertaking any course?

The simple answer is no.

If you have booked an 'Adobe certified' course with us - you do have the option to view some sample documents we send across prior to your exam.

Although this would only affect your scoring by a couple of percent either way.

What is Adobe certification?

Adobe certified professional. Build a unique portfolio and gain a professional certification that communicates your advanced knowledge- that is what becoming Adobe certified is about.

Is there any technical support after the course completes?

After your course, we don’t leave you high-and-dry. Our technical support is provided for a lifetime.

How do I gain multiple Adobe certifications?

Become an Adobe certified professional with our Adobe certification masterclass. It will provide you with a solid qualification in the design / video sector and increase your chances of landing your dream job!

I become Adobe certified a couple of years ago. Does this mean I'm still Adobe certified?

When you undertake and pass an Adobe certified professional (or the retired 'Adobe certified associate) exam, then you will always be certified in the specific version of the exam you undertook.

e.g. You become Adobe certified in Premiere Pro CC2022 and you will always possess this accreditation.

However, as time moves onwards, Adobe will release more recent versions (e.g. CC 2023, CC2024 etc).

Therefore to remain 'current' then you will need to ensure you have passed the very latest version of the Adobe certified professional exam.

How do I obtain the Adobe Creative Cloud software?

You can either subscribe to the entire suite (that’s all the applications) or just one application on a monthly basis. 

Adobe offers a free 7-day trial for each application if you wish to try before you subscribe. 

What happens if I am unwell on the morning of my course?

This is just fine from a course perspective since you can re-arrange again (according to our course schedule) for no fee.

Can I jump immediately to an advanced course?

Delegates attending an Advanced course must already possess at least 85% of the knowledge of the (previous) Introduction course. This is so you are not out of your depth in the Advanced course and also so other delegates are not affected.

Will I be able to work to my own agenda in the training?

Our courses are scheduled and run with the same outline and objectives.

Whilst our trainers can field some ad hoc questions along the way we are unable to provide specific information on your personal project.

Is the training just 'watching' or is it interactive?

The training is interactive just like you were in the training room with the trainer.

You will download the training files and work through modular exercises with your experienced training instructor.

What if I fail my Adobe certified exam?

Should you not pass the first time, you can retake the exam (up to 5 separate free attempts are allowed) for no charge when the course runs again in our schedule.

Will I get a certificate for attending?

Yes - your certificate of attendance will be emailed after your training course completes.

What do I receive after my course completes?

Upon completion of your course, you will receive the following assets:

  • a video of your actual course
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • links to supplementary 'help' documents if applicable to your course

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Interested in one of our courses but need a couple of questions answered first?

Use our simple form below to send a message directly to our consultant trainers. We value great customer service and will endeavour to get back to you within the hour inside normal business hours.

If you require an immediate response then please do not hesitate to call 0800 112 5432.




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