Week 7. Adobe Animate

At last! We learned today what Adobe Animate! We were asked to download a program on a laptop for workshop to learn how to use the program for the future. Unfortunately, I caught myself very late and sat half of the lesson just was looking at the slides and how classmates did work. What Google says about this program :

"Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Systems.

Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television programs, online video, websites, web applications, rich internet applications, and video games. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio and video embedding, and ActionScript scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats.

It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then renamed Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It was created to serve as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, vector-based software for creating animated and interactive content. It was renamed Adobe Animate in 2015 to more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5."

In the middle of the lesson, when classmates almost completed their work, my friend shared her laptop and helped me make a small element in the program. As it turned out, when I looked at the lecturer and watched her work, it was much easier than when I tried to do it myself. That was hard. You can notice how I got a terrible job :

Arriving home, I read about the program and delved into more. I found more examples and was able to create something more like an animation.