Animating Reusable Library Actions in Adobe Animate by Chad Troftgruben

Create Body And Facial Poses

Learn how to set up a series of poses for both the body and face which can be invoked at any time.

Create Grounded Looking Actions

In this course you will learn techniques to create actions that look grounded and polished.

Learn to Create Loopable Animations

Create two loopable actions, a walk and run cycle. These actions can then be combined with others to create complex sequences.

Animate with Multiple Symbols

Learn two ways to combine multiple animated symbols. We will be taking advantage of symbol swapping, tweening and the Frame Picker.

What's included?

30 videos 1 file

Contents

Welcome!

What You Will Learn in this Course

3 mins

Prerequisites for this Course

2 mins

Download Exercise Files

2 mins

Exercise Files.zip

146 MB

Setting Up Your Workspace

7 mins

Overviewing Our Character Rig

8 mins

Organizing Library Actions

10 mins

Animating a Walk Cycle

Adding Guides and Setting First Contact Pose

20 mins

Posing the Recoil Points

10 mins

Creating the Passing Keys

9 mins

Adding the High Points

6 mins

Adding Remaining Contact Points

4 mins

Polishing and Reorganizing Keys

8 mins

Implementing Tweening for Smoother Animation

4 mins

Testing the Walk Animation Symbol

16 mins

Animating a Run Cycle

Preparing the Run Cycle Symbol

11 mins

Posing the Down Actions

8 mins

Adding First Pass Pose

7 mins

Adding Second Pass Poses

6 mins

Posing the Up Keys

5 mins

Posing Mid Air Keys

5 mins

Finishing with Contact Pose

4 mins

Polishing and Testing Run Animation

14 mins

Setting Up Pose Symbols

Creating Standing Poses

13 mins

Creating Down Poses

11 mins

Creating Up Poses

5 mins

Creating Talk Poses

8 mins

Creating Face Poses

8 mins

Other Tips and Final Thoughts

Animating a Sequence By Swapping Symbols

8 mins

Animating a Sequence with the Frame Picker

10 mins

Final Thoughts

2 mins