SECTION: 1
Overview
2:41
SECTION: 2
Industry overview
10:52
SECTION: 3
Drawing tools
16:21
SECTION: 4
Color
9:44
SECTION: 5
Shape tweens
11:30
SECTION: 6
Warnings & errors
1:10
SECTION: 7
Width tool
5:23
SECTION: 8
Class tweens
17:34
SECTION: 9
Fonts
6:16
SECTION: 10
Create a banner ad
16:44
SECTION: 11
Images
27:50
SECTION: 12
Nested animations
16:23
SECTION: 13
Sound
6:53
SECTION: 14
Project
9:34
SECTION: 15
Buttons
12:14
SECTION: 16
Masking & infographics
43:50
SECTION: 17
Bone Tool
6:53
SECTION: 18
Stop looping with JS
1:45
SECTION: 19
Motion tweens
16:35
SECTION: 20
Keeping file size down
13:18
SECTION: 21
Publishing
42:15
SECTION: 22
Conclusion
1:37
This course has been archived, the content is no longer up-to-date or relevant to most students.
Layers and Polystar Tools
SECTION: 1
Overview
2:41
SECTION: 2
Industry overview
10:52
SECTION: 3
Drawing tools
16:21
SECTION: 4
Color
9:44
SECTION: 5
Shape tweens
11:30
SECTION: 6
Warnings & errors
1:10
SECTION: 7
Width tool
5:23
SECTION: 8
Class tweens
17:34
SECTION: 9
Fonts
6:16
SECTION: 10
Create a banner ad
16:44
SECTION: 11
Images
27:50
SECTION: 12
Nested animations
16:23
SECTION: 13
Sound
6:53
SECTION: 14
Project
9:34
SECTION: 15
Buttons
12:14
SECTION: 16
Masking & infographics
43:50
SECTION: 17
Bone Tool
6:53
SECTION: 18
Stop looping with JS
1:45
SECTION: 19
Motion tweens
16:35
SECTION: 20
Keeping file size down
13:18
SECTION: 21
Publishing
42:15
SECTION: 22
Conclusion
1:37
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Overview
This course is for visual, creative people who need to start making HTML5 banner ads. I made this course for people that are struggling to get their heads around the new world of HTML5 advertising. This course is step by step with exercise files. I’ve saved a copy of each Adobe Animate file after every video so if you get lost you can compare your files to my completed files. At the end you’ll be able to create, test and upload standard banner ads.
This course is perfect for people completely new to the digital advertising world. We’ll cover all the basics. It’s also great for people who previously worked in Adobe Flash to produce SWF advertising.
Because this is such a new industry I’ll be around to help you with any questions. Use the forums on the pages and I’ll respond.
Thanks for considering my course. If you’re not sure if it’s right for you. Simply sign up, try it out and if you’re not happy I’ll refund you no problem. - Dan.
What are the requirements?
- You'll need a copy of Adobe Animate CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.
- No previous Adobe Animate or digital advertising knowledge is necessary.
- If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.
What am I going to get from this course?
- 53 lectures 3 hours of content!
- Forum support from me.
- How to build banner advertising
- How to keep file sizes down.
- Firm understanding of the publishing process for ad networks like Google Doubleclick, Adwords, Simek etc.
- Professional workflows and shortcuts.
- A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.
What is the target audience?
- YES: This course is for beginners. For people who prefer not to work in code. Visual people. Creative people. Graphic designers. Marketers. Past users of Flash.
- NO: This course is not for developers. This course will cover standard animated banners. Not dynamic banners like expanding banners, video banners or game banners.
Course duration 5 hours + your study.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Hi. This video we're gonna look at layers and the polystar tool. Nice simple stuff. So down the bottom, we're given our first layer. It's called layer one. And what we're gonna do is rename it.
So layer one we're gonna call maybe building. Okay? And what we're gonna do, just to make it easier so we don't go and wreck things later on, is we're gonna lock it. See this a little lock icon here, click this. And it just means I can't move it or wreck it. Okay?
Um, I'm gonna create a new layer. So this little turned up page down here, there's new layer. It's called layer two. I'm gonna rename it. This one's gonna be called stars. And I'm gonna draw on this layer.
I know I'm on this layer. Can you see it's this highlighted color in this case it's kind of an orange color. And we use the Polystar tool. The Polystar tool is this one here. Click on it. And when you get started with the Polystar tool, it gets, it comes out with, uh, less of a star, okay.
And more polygons. So I don't want that. I've selected it and deleted it. Back to my Polystar tool. I'm gonna click on the options and find stars. There you are from Polygon.
We're gonna switch it to Star. And if I leave it all default, it's gonna give you your traditional star shape. Okay? What I want to do is more, we'll have a couple of those actually. Um, so I'm gonna pick yellow for stars 'cause stars are yellow. Okay?
Couple of these round and great. Nice. So I want a couple of different shapes. So I'm gonna go to options and bring this back down. Um, let's look at number of sides. I'm gonna bump it up to 10.
So there's lots more of these edges here. Um, and the star point size just means, can you see, it kind of goes in the inset here is kind of half of the size. So 0.5, if I go way down to 0.2, click on this and then I drag it out. Can you see I get a real kind of like sparkly star, real kind of, um, pointed tips. And obviously if you go the other way and you crank it right up, you get, uh, more like a, okay, if you get up to 0.9 and I put in say 50, you get more like a kind of a Starburst, that kind. Oh, actually what I wanted was, I wanted this up to 0.9.
There you go. There you go. More like a Starburst. Okay. And yeah, kind of like a sticker, gold labely type thing. A venue.
Okay? So that's how to make some terrible looking stars in your terrible looking skyline.
So layer one we're gonna call maybe building. Okay? And what we're gonna do, just to make it easier so we don't go and wreck things later on, is we're gonna lock it. See this a little lock icon here, click this. And it just means I can't move it or wreck it. Okay?
Um, I'm gonna create a new layer. So this little turned up page down here, there's new layer. It's called layer two. I'm gonna rename it. This one's gonna be called stars. And I'm gonna draw on this layer.
I know I'm on this layer. Can you see it's this highlighted color in this case it's kind of an orange color. And we use the Polystar tool. The Polystar tool is this one here. Click on it. And when you get started with the Polystar tool, it gets, it comes out with, uh, less of a star, okay.
And more polygons. So I don't want that. I've selected it and deleted it. Back to my Polystar tool. I'm gonna click on the options and find stars. There you are from Polygon.
We're gonna switch it to Star. And if I leave it all default, it's gonna give you your traditional star shape. Okay? What I want to do is more, we'll have a couple of those actually. Um, so I'm gonna pick yellow for stars 'cause stars are yellow. Okay?
Couple of these round and great. Nice. So I want a couple of different shapes. So I'm gonna go to options and bring this back down. Um, let's look at number of sides. I'm gonna bump it up to 10.
So there's lots more of these edges here. Um, and the star point size just means, can you see, it kind of goes in the inset here is kind of half of the size. So 0.5, if I go way down to 0.2, click on this and then I drag it out. Can you see I get a real kind of like sparkly star, real kind of, um, pointed tips. And obviously if you go the other way and you crank it right up, you get, uh, more like a, okay, if you get up to 0.9 and I put in say 50, you get more like a kind of a Starburst, that kind. Oh, actually what I wanted was, I wanted this up to 0.9.
There you go. There you go. More like a Starburst. Okay. And yeah, kind of like a sticker, gold labely type thing. A venue.
Okay? So that's how to make some terrible looking stars in your terrible looking skyline.
