Adobe Creative 3D Workflows brings a practical approach to understanding not only how to begin working with 3D assets but how each of the relevant Adobe apps interact through the creation and application of 3D materials, models, and effects across different workflows. Each topic begins with an overview grounding the approach alongside useful tools and then transitions to a tutorial-like approach with hands-on examples created through a specific set of workflows. From generating custom materials in Substance 3D Sampler, to producing 3D models from vector shapes using Illustrator while adding motion to these models in After Effects, to designing a variety of 3D environments across various platforms, this book provides a foundation of how to successfully work in the Creative Cloud and Substance 3D apps to produce stunning results.

• Understand 3D-specific terminology and concepts that carry across different software.
• Create rich, realistic materials that can be applied to 3D models in various environments.
• Work with Substance 3D technologies within more traditional 2D apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Design engaging motion content in 3D space while combining 2D planes with true 3D models.
• Explore additional 3D focused capabilities and workflows in immersive AR, intelligent product mockups, interactive VR, and more.

Become an accomplished motion designer, animator, and interactive content producer with the help of expert-led material

Key Features:

• Produce rich motion graphics and interactive animations for multiple platforms by exploring the Adobe Animate ecosystem
• Get acquainted with the key features and enhancements in the latest Adobe Animate release such as depth, layering, and object warping
• Take your Adobe Animate projects to the next level with creative workflows using diverse animation techniques

Book Description:

Adobe Animate is a platform-agnostic asset creation application that enables you to create motion design and vector animations while facilitating interactivity across other Adobe software such as After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This book comes packed with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walk-throughs of practical examples, guiding you in using Animate to create immersive experiences and breaking the walls of creative limitations.

In this third edition, you'll begin by getting up to speed with the features of Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to set up Animate as a creative platform and explore the enhancements introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for different platforms through the publish and export workflows. You'll explore advanced rigging workflows and discover how to create more dynamic animations with complex depth and movement techniques. As the book demonstrates different ways of channeling your creativity through Animate, you'll be able to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, generative art, and apps for various platforms. Finally, this graphic design book covers the different methods used to extend the software to meet various user requirements.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic designs, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.

What You Will Learn:

• Gain an understanding of Adobe Animate foundations and new features
• Understand how to publish and export rich media content to various platforms
• Find out how to use advanced layering and rigging techniques to create engaging motion content
• Explore how to create dynamic motions using variable layer depth techniques
• Develop web-based games, generative art, virtual reality experiences, and multiplatform mobile applications
• Make the most of Animate with extensions, application-level scripting, and the creation of custom-integrated tutorials

Who this book is for:

This book is for web, graphic, and motion design professionals with basic experience in animation who want to take their existing skills to the next level. A clear understanding of fundamental animation concepts will help you to get the most out of this book and produce impressive results.

Step into the world of animation and go beyond the fundamentals of Adobe Animate to bring experiences to life with the help of expert-led content

Key Features:

• Produce rich motion graphics and interactive animations for multiple platforms
• Explore the key features and enhancements in the latest Adobe Animate release
• Take your Adobe Animate projects to the next level with creative workflows

Book Description:

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walkthroughs of practical examples, this book will guide you in using Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium.

We begin by getting up to speed with all that you need to know about Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you'll explore advanced rigging techniques and discover how to create more dynamic animation with advanced depth and movement techniques. You'll also find out how to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, and apps for various platforms as the book demonstrates different ways to use Animate. Finally, it covers the different methods used to extend the software for various needs.

By the end of this Adobe Animate book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic design materials, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.

What You Will Learn:

• Gain a solid understanding of Adobe Animate foundations and new features
• Understand the nuances associated with publishing and exporting rich media content to various platforms
• Make use of advanced layering and rigging techniques to create engaging motion content
• Create dynamic motion using the camera and variable layer depth techniques
• Develop web-based games, virtual reality experiences, and multiplatform mobile applications
• Extend Animate with extensions, application-level scripting, and the creation of custom integrated tutorials

Who this book is for:

This book is for web, graphic, and motion design professionals with basic experience in animation who want to take their existing skills to the next level. A clear understanding of fundamental animation concepts will help you to get the most out of this book and produce impressive results.

Your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription delivers a breathtaking collection of state-of-the-art creativity tools--for web, print, video, interactive, digital marketing, UX/UI design, and more. With so much power, where do you start? If you're familiar with one or two of Adobe's tools, how do you extend your knowledge to make the most of the entire Creative Cloud, choose the right tool for each job, and do amazing work? Start right here, with the only classroom-proven guide to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite: Adobe Creative Cloud Classroom in a Book.

Authored by leading designer and instructor Joseph Labrecque, this guide reflects his experience teaching hundreds of students at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication & Information. Each chapter combines an overview of a Creative Cloud app with well-crafted hands-on practice. Labrecque introduces the software, explains essential concepts and design principles surrounding its use, guides you through basic tools and workflows, and then walks you through executing a project from beginning to end. You'll learn how each tool works in real life, and how to apply design concepts and theory in your own creative practice.

Labrecque introduces the fundamentals of Creative Cloud for both desktop and mobile, Creative Cloud Express, and all these skills:

• Cloud-based photography with Lightroom
• Raster image compositing with Photoshop
• Vector graphics design with Illustrator
• Page layout management with InDesign
• Prototyping for screens with Adobe XD
• 3D rendering with Dimension
• Audio content production with Audition
• Video content sequencing with Premiere Pro
• Motion graphics compositing with After Effects
• Live performance capture with Character Animator
• Interactive content animation with Animate

Knowing the industry-standard animation and interactivity tool Adobe Animate CC can help you get a foothold in the exciting web design and mobile app-development world. Learn Animate CC by building cool creative projects that will teach you how to:

• Design and animate vector artwork
• Compose an animated greeting card using HTML5
• Build a promotional video with text and images animated in 3D
• Build an interactive poem generator using JavaScript
• Construct a working digital clock using ActionScript
• Design and code an interactive quiz for mobile devices

This study guide uses video integrated with text to help you gain real-world skills that will get you started in your career designing and building multiplatform animations using Adobe Animate CC and lays the foundation for taking the Adobe Certified Associate certification exam in that field. A mix of 7 project-based lessons, 10 hours of practical videos, and interactive quizzes prepares you for an entry-level position in a competitive job market.

Purchasing this book gives you access to valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's Getting Started section to unlock access to:

• Web Edition containing instructional video embedded in the complete text of the book with interactive review questions along with product updates
• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book

Get to grips with the fundamentals of JavaScript and learn to build the programming skills that will kickstart your career as a software developer

Key Features:

• Learn the basics of JavaScript programming to create dynamic web pages
• Explore the fundamentals of back-end development using Node.js
• Tackle challenging development problems and apply solutions to real-world situations

Book Description:

If you're looking for a programming language to develop flexible and efficient apps, JavaScript is a great choice. However, while offering real benefits, the complexity of the entire JavaScript ecosystem can be overwhelming. This Workshop is a smarter way to learn JavaScript. It is specifically designed to cut through the noise and help build your JavaScript skills from scratch, while sparking your interest with engaging activities and clear explanations.

Starting with explanations of JavaScript's fundamental programming concepts, this book will introduce the key tools, libraries and frameworks that programmers use in everyday development. You will then move on and see how to handle data, control the flow of information in an application, and create custom events. You'll explore the differences between client-side and server-side JavaScript, and expand your knowledge further by studying the different JavaScript development paradigms, including object-oriented and functional programming.

By the end of this JavaScript book, you'll have the confidence and skills to tackle real-world JavaScript development problems that reflect the emerging requirements of the modern web.

What You Will Learn:

• Write clean, maintainable and eloquent JavaScript code
• Build websites using plain JS and various frameworks and libraries
• Simplify your workflow with package managers such as Gulp and Grunt
• Use Node.js to build server-side JavaScript applications
• Improve the functionality of your applications with browser APIs
• Implement asynchronous programming to build apps that can multitask

Who this book is for:

The JavaScript Workshop is the ideal guide to JavaScript for beginners. It is designed for anyone who wants to get started learning JavaScript. Whether you're an aspiring web developer, or are just curious about learning how to code with a versatile programming language, this book will help you get up and running. Previous development experience is not required, but basic prior knowledge of HTML and CSS will help you get the most from this book.

Step into the world of animation and go beyond the fundamentals of Adobe Animate to bring experiences to life through expert-led content

Key Features:

• Produce rich motion graphics and interactive animations for multiple platforms and discover different ways to use Animate
• Explore the key features and enhancements in the latest Adobe Animate release
• Take your Adobe Animate projects to the next level by delving into creative workflows

Book description:

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and hands-on walkthroughs, this book shows you how to use Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium.

You will begin by getting up to speed with what you need to know about Adobe Animate quickly. Next, you will learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in the most recent version of the software. Moving on, you'll consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you'll delve into advanced rigging techniques and discover how to create more dynamic animation with advanced depth and movement techniques. You'll also find out how to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, and apps for various platforms. The book concludes with an examination of different methods used to extend the software for various needs.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion design materials and animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces - all while targeting a variety of platforms including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.

What You Will Learn:

• Gain a solid understanding of Adobe Animate foundations and new features
• Understand the nuances associated with publishing and exporting rich media content for various platforms
• Make use of advanced layering and rigging techniques to create engaging motion content
• Create dynamic motion by using the camera and variable layer depth techniques
• Develop web-based games, virtual reality experiences, and multiplatform mobile applications
• Extend Animate with extensions, application-level scripting, and the creation of custom integrated tutorials

Who this book is for:

This book is for web, graphic, and motion design professionals with basic experience in animation who want to take their existing skills to the next level. A clear understanding of basic animation concepts will help you to get the most out of this book and produce impressive results.