Animating Reusable Library Actions in Adobe Animate

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Animating Reusable Library Actions in Adobe Animate

Learn how to build and implement reusable Library Actions, such as walk cycles and one frame poses, in your Adobe Animate cartoons.

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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.

Welcome!

Learn what this course is all about!

What You Will Learn in this Course

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Prerequisites for this Course

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Download Exercise Files

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Exercise Files.zip

Setting Up Your Workspace

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Overviewing Our Character Rig

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Organizing Library Actions

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Animating a Walk Cycle

Learn all the steps required to create a grounded, eye-pleasing walk cycle.

Adding Guides and Setting First Contact Pose

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Posing the Recoil Points

Creating the Passing Keys

Adding the High Points

Adding Remaining Contact Points

Polishing and Reorganizing Keys

Implementing Tweening for Smoother Animation

Testing the Walk Animation Symbol

Animating a Run Cycle

Using similar steps to the walk cycle, here we will build poses for a run cycle.

Preparing the Run Cycle Symbol

Posing the Down Actions

Adding First Pass Pose

Adding Second Pass Poses

Posing the Up Keys

Posing Mid Air Keys

Finishing with Contact Pose

Polishing and Testing Run Animation

Setting Up Pose Symbols

Here we set up symbols we can use to easily invoke any pose we wish.

Creating Standing Poses

Creating Down Poses

Creating Up Poses

Creating Talk Poses

Creating Face Poses

Other Tips and Final Thoughts

Here we string animations together and I share my final thoughts.

Animating a Sequence By Swapping Symbols

Animating a Sequence with the Frame Picker

Final Thoughts