InDesign: Creating Animations

Get a complete guide to using InDesign's powerful animation features. Watch and learn how to animate logos, ads, and even books in fixed layout EPUB format.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Previewing the possibilities
• Supported format overview
• Setting up an animation workspace
• Built-in reference: The Animation Encyclopedia script

2. Working with the Animation Panel

• Animation panel overview
• Applying and previewing basic animation presets
• Exploring the complex animation presets
• Modifying animation presets
• Adjusting animation preset duration and speed
• Understanding from/to appearance
• Working with rotation
• Modifying scaling properties
• Setting page load and page click start events
• Setting on click self and on button click start events
• Using Hide Until Animated/Hide After Animating

3. Working with Motion Paths

• Modifying animation preset motion paths
• Creating your own motion paths
• Understanding motion path direction
• Copying motion paths

4. Understanding Timing

• Setting timing order and linking objects timing using the Timing panel
• Using Timing panel delays
• Looping and timing-linked objects
• The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel

5. Creating Animation Effects

• Applying animation to multiple objects on one page
• Applying multiple animations to one object
• Animating type: Old movie reel headline
• Animating type: Typewriter effect
• Animating type: Bounce back effect
• Animating type: Motion blur
• Animating type: Digital flip sign
• Creating lines that draw
• Drawing with objects
• Filling jars and other containers
• Moving the rotation center point
• Animating infographics: Line graphs
• Animating infographics: Bar charts
• Animating infographics: Simple pie charts
• Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts
• Creating a slideshow
• Creating a moving bicycle
• Building things that blink
• Creating auto-scrolling text
• Creating color transitions

6. Using Other Interactive Features with Animations

• Using buttons to trigger animations
• Including animations in Object States (MSOs)
• Working with grouped animations in MSOs
• Adding sound to animations
• Animating video frames

7. Building Complex Animations

• Animating logos: World news
• Animating logos: Global systems
• Animating logos: Transportation matters
• Creating animated ads: Periodic elements
• Creating animated ads: Financial ratios
• Creating animated ads: Messaging
• Building an animated movie title page
• Animating an instructional page: Bicycle essentials
• Building an animated cookbook page
• Animating a textbook

8. Output Formats and Animation

• Using animations in fixed-layout EPUBs
• Using animations with Publish Online

9. Advanced Techniques

• Creating and saving custom motion presets
• Managing and sharing custom motion presets
• Customizing animations via Snippets
• Copying animations

Conclusion

• Credits/acknowledgments
• Next steps