What is Adobe Animate CC?
Along with renaming the tool, the evolution from Flash to Adobe Animate
CC has added a wide range of advanced functionalities like support to WebGL and
HTML5 canvas.
You will not regret your decision after reading this article and will
find that using Adobe Animate CC is a wise choice. Hence, let’s begin to get
enlightened on the features.
New features of Adobe Animate CC
1. Adobe Animate Camera
Adobe Animate CC introduces virtual camera functionality unlike
other animation software. With
the help of this feature, you can easily stimulate your camera’s movement
giving your animation a more realistic view.
Making it simpler, you can effortlessly execute panning, zooming and
rotating to your animations if you wish. Using the virtual camera in Animate
CC, you will be enabling to add more dramatic effects while creating an
animation.
For instance, if there’s a fighting scene in our animated movie, you can
rotate at the moment the scene shows destruction to give it a dramatic effect
or you can zoom in or out and change the viewer’s attention from one point to
the other.
2. Export format
Adobe Animate CC has adapted the web standards for the exporting your
animation which makes it easier for everyone to view it from desktop to mobile
device.
This tweak has revolutionized the web based flash animation by simply
eliminating the annoying “need to install a flash player plug-in” which was in
case of Flash Professional Platform. With Adobe Animate, users can export
content for WebGL, HTML5 Canvas, 4k video easily.
Moreover, you can generate the keyframes based sprite-sheet and animate
them accordingly using the CSS. Adapting web standards doesn’t mean that Adobe
Animate CC has entirely abandoned the SWF format.
Users do have a privilege to export their files to Flash Player format.
Furthermore, a new OAM packaging is also introduced by new Adobe Animate CC
which enables you to package assets in .zip format.
3. Vector brushes
Another important functionality that Adobe Animate has brought is giving
the opportunity to create vector brushes. This is kind of same as that used in
Adobe Illustrator. With this update in brushing tools, one can have pressure
and tilt functionalities on drawing of lines and strokes with the help of pen
or stylus.
This is helpful in creating strokes in touch-sensitive devices. The
width can be changed according to how much pressure you apply when creating
patterns. So, if you wish to create 2D vector graphics using shapes, patterns,
curves etc. Animate CC would be a good choice.
4. Audio Syncing
The timeline feature of the tool will now allow the users to sync audios
in their animations and this is a yet another feature that Animate CC has
added. This means you can do audio synchronization for your animation series.
Nevertheless, doing this can be a little demanding as well as
time-consuming with HTML5 alone. In addition, you also get enabled for audio
loop control with the Adobe Animate CC’s timeline feature.
5. Font
Adobe Animate CC comes now with integration of Typekit where you get
countless premium web fonts. These web fonts will be present for HTML5 canvas
documents in the tool. Users can pick out from thousands of high-quality fonts
via a subscription plan.
Putting in different words, first you can try some selected fonts
available in the Typekit library via any level of Creative Cloud plan. Then
when you subscribe by spending some money, you can then get access to complete
Typekit library where there are thousands of premium fonts for HTML5 canvas.
Final Verdict
Animation industry is no doubt a very interesting one and having the
best tool can make it more interesting and fun. After making you familiarize
with the top functionalities that are coming with Adobe Animate CC, we feel it
would be fair to end the discussion here. Hope you will not give a second
thought on Animate CC when need to do flash animation.
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