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Free Transform Tools in Adobe Animate

Course contents
SECTION: 6
Warnings & errors 1:10
SECTION: 7
Width tool 5:23
SECTION: 14
Project 9:34
SECTION: 15
Buttons 12:14
SECTION: 17
Bone Tool 6:53
SECTION: 18
Stop looping with JS 1:45
SECTION: 22
Conclusion 1:37

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Course info

53 lessons / 5 hours

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

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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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.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Hi. This video we're gonna look at the transform tool. Transform tool is this guy here, I'm gonna select him. Now it's used for scaling and rotating. Uh, so what I'm gonna do is unlock these earlier layers  so I can play around with the little bit. So I'm gonna click on this crazy looking building here,  and you'll notice that the difference is we've got these  little edge bits, okay?

And, uh, there's a couple of things. If I grab any of the corners, can you see, I can kind  of stretch it any old sort of way in corner. Um, but what I want to do is hold down shift. If I hold shift, can you see it's scales,  it proportionately rather than kind  of like stretching it all sorts of ways. So often you wanna scale it  proportionately to make a bigger building. Great.

You'll notice that it scales from the center. It actually scales from this point here. Now, when you are new, you'll end up trying to move the,  say I wanna move this to the right here. You'll end up kinda grabbing the center and moving it. And actually it, you know, you, you'll meant to do this,  but you end up dragging this. Okay?

And this is the center of rotation. So it just means that if I move this down here  and now I scale it holding shift, can you see it scales from  that bottom corner there? If I scale it from, if I move it up here in the top left  and I try and use the exact same one,  can you see it scales in and outta there? So that's quite interesting. That point here when you are doing animations  and you want it to, um, enlarge or rotate on a point,  and you, this is the point here. It's gonna rotate from.

So that's scaling. Uh, there's a couple other things you can do  with a free transform tool. Um, ears, can you see if I hover it anywhere outta here? The cursor changes to this little kind  of round thing with an arrow. If I click and hold and drag it, it's gonna move it around. If I hold shift while I'm dragging it,  it will lock it into 90 degree angles.

Okay, so that's rotation. There's another one for skew. If I hover above any of these lines here,  can you see that double arrow? I click it and drag it. I can skew it. So I'm gonna go to edit undo.

Uh, the only last thing about the free,  free transform tool is that, uh, if I'm on the move tool  or the section tool, I want to go to the, um, quick way  to go into the transform tool is to tap the Q key. If I tap Q, it jumps to that tool there without me having  to go and click it, and I can start  doing my transformations. V is jumping to the selection tool  and you'll know which says V and Q, V and Q. And you'll notice over here that it's toggling  between V and Q. Okay? Um, you start learning some shortcuts when you are  reusing some tools over and over again.

Um, to know what the shortcuts are. You'll see here it's called the selection tool. And you see in the brackets there, it's got a V,  this one here has a Q. And if you're using the type tool, it's a T  and there's lots of ones in here. Um, just hover above them  and they'll tell you what the shortcut is. All right, uh, let's hit save and move on to the next video.

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