Animate CC For Everyone
Learn how to create expressive animations for social media sharing, emails, banners or just plain silly stuff.
Watch this short video to see what you will learn in this course.
Enroll today for instant access to over 30 detailed video lectures focusing on animation basics for complete beginners.
All artwork and source files provided
Written instructions and special Follow-Along instructional videos for each leasson
Go at your own pace
No design or drawing skills needed
Build fun stuff
Animate CC is the industry-standard tool for 2D animation for broadcast, web, and social media.
I’m going to show you how to build short 2D animations that can be exported as video or animated GIF that can be easily shared via email or social media.
Whether you want to make cows with rocket packs fly, make an animated e-card for mom for Valentines day, or add a little visual pizazz to your marketing campaigns this course will show you how.
This isn't the type of 1-2 hour course you'll get bundled into a subscription. I'm not just going to walk you through one project and say I'm done. You'll build 10 fun projects with my step-by-step guidance.
We're going to start at the beginning and build up to more complicated concepts together.
Unlike other courses (or countless free youtube videos), I don't expect you just to watch me and magically learn. I provide detailed instructions in video and written form for each exercise.
The only way you are going to learn is by doing it yourself. If you get stuck along the way, I'm here to help. I provide email suport to all my students and typically respond within 12 hours.
Once you learn the fundamental concepts of animating with Animate CC, you will be amazed at how much you can do!
Get a taste of a typical lecture and my special Follow-Along instructional videos
I present this material as if I was sitting with you doing a one-on-one training. In a typical lesson I will clearly explain:
A typical video lecture is 10-15 minutes long.
What sets this course apart from all the others are my Follow-Along videos. I know what it's like to read a book or watch a video and then have no idea how to do it for myself.
The Follow-Along videos are usually only 2-3 minutes and show THE EXACT STEPS you need to follow.
I invite you to watch the BOTH the lecture and Follow-Along videos below to get a sense of how easy this will be.
Download source files and instructions: GTI-Sample.zip
Carl Schooff
Despite the decent credentials what people appreciate most is my “down to earth” style. Watch some of my free videos, I think you’ll get a sense of my style very quickly. Hopefully we’re a good fit.
Does making a bunch of cows with rocket packs fly across the screen sound like fun to you? If so, I think you'll feel right at home.
How to use this course
Important note about updates to Animate CC
Getting Started with Animate CC
Interface Walkthrough
3 Types of Animation
Creating Your First Classic Tween
First Tween Follow Along
Chapter Intro
Understanding the Timeline (keyframes, frames, blank keyframes)
Keyframe Boot Camp
Blank Keyframe Boot Camp
Chapter Intro
Stop-motion Nachos Animation: Watch me build it
Stop-motion Nachos: Follow Along
Export to Video
Upload to Twitter from Adobe Media Encoder
Chapter Intro
Enter > Pause > Leave
Pulse
Spin
Erratic Animation
Chapter Intro
UFO with Alien: Watch me build it
UFO with Alien: Follow-Along
Chapter Intro
Surf Gallery: Watch me build it
Surf Gallery: Build it!
Understanding Platform Type / Doc Type
Chapter Intro
Editing symbols
Editing symbols follow-along
Creating symbols
Creating symbols follow-along
Nested Animations
Nested animations follow-along
Graphic vs Movie Clip
Chapter Intro
GTI wheel Spin
GTI wheel spin follow-along
Rocket flames
Rocket flames follow-along
Rocket Cow
Rocket Cow: follow-along
Chapter Intro
Merge vs object mode
Drawing 1: Strokes, fills, paint bucket, ink bottle and more
Drawing 2: Pencil, brush, paint brush and brush modes
Drawing 3: Basic shapes, Primitives, and PolyStar
Chapter Intro
Creating text
Text pulse animation
Text pulse animation follow-along
I love you
I love you follow-along
Shape Tweens
Shape tween follow-along
Chicken Meets Bomb
Chicken meets bomb follow-along
Motion Guide
Motion Guide Follow Along
You will need Adobe Animate CC:) Animate is included in Adobe's Creative Cloud. If you are a student or creative professional with a Creative Cloud subscription, you already have Animate CC. You will need Adobe Media Encoder to compress your videos, but that gets automatically installed with Animate.
To download Animate CC and learn more about what it can do visit: Animate CC on Adobe.com
This course was created using Animate CC 2019. Many of the lessons apply as far back as to Flash Professional.
With the release of Animate 2020 some minor UI changes have been introduced.
You just need some basic competence with computers: opening files, saving files, using the mouse.
Absolutely not. There will be some lessons where I teach the basic drawing tools, but 90% of the focus of this training is on animation. I will be providing all the creative assets.
Nope. Familiarity with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or Sketch will help but is by no means necessary.
Not at all. Although Animate CC is great at outputting HTML5 canvas animations, all the projects in this course are created to be output as single gif or video file that can be easily shared via email or social media. You do not need to know any HTML, JavaScript, or CSS. The goal of this class is to eliminate as many technical barriers as possible and make animation fun for everyone.
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Questions about this course?
Shoot an email to carl@snorkl.tv I'll be happy to help.