Animate CC: Animating Scenes

In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate CC to assemble and animate a scene, and set up a complex rig for both a human character and a robot.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Assembling a Scene

• Project setup
• Importing the reference
• Line the arm
• Line the left hand and foot
• Line the human head
• Create the eye blink
• Create the human mouth
• Complete the human mouth
• Testing and tweaking the rig
• Expanding the rig
• Import the robot
• Line and rig the robot
• Finalize the robot
• Testing the robot
• Rig the UFO
• Set up the scene symbol
• Create the background
• Cleaning up the background
• Assemble the scene

2. Animate an Action Scene

• Sketch robot thumbnails
• Animate the robot torso
• Animate the foot
• Animate robot leg
• Animate robot arms
• Finishing the walk
• Create robot army walk
• Animate UFO and laser
• Exploding building
• Add camera moves

3. Animate a Human

• Setting up the character
• Import and edit audio
• Thumbnail the poses
• Pose the body
• Animate the body
• Animate the mouth
• Animate the head
• Fine adjustments
• Importing audio and exporting the scene

Conclusion

• Next steps