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Designing Interactive Infographics with Adobe Animate

May 24, 2021

A new publication on LinkedIn Learning for 2021! Designing Interactive Infographics with Adobe Animate goes over the basics of creating interactive motion infographics in Adobe Animate. Learn how to use Adobe Animate to design a fully interactive, animated infographic for use on the native web. This course explores document and layer management, instantiation of infographic […]

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AIGA CT Animate Workshop

March 9, 2021

I’m going to be hanging out with AIGA Connecticut on Wednesday, March 10th to deliver a fun Adobe Animate workshop. In this interactive workshop, Adobe Professional and author Joseph Labrecque will teach you the basics of Adobe Animate! Join us and learn how to build (pet)tacular HTML5 banner ads. You’ll be given the assets and

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Adobe Animate Essential Training

October 20, 2020

Just released on LinkedIn Learning is an all-new course: Adobe Animate Essential Training! I’m really excited about this course as it really covers everything you need to know to get started creating all sorts of neat stuff with Animate 2021. Discover how to use Adobe Animate—the multimedia drawing, layout, animation, and interactive design application—to create

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Adobe Animate New Features [October 2020 Update]

October 20, 2020

My LinkedIn Learning course, Adobe Animate New Features, was updated recently to include a new chapter specific to features in the October 2020 release of Animate 2021. These updates include: Asset Management Additions Rig Mapping Workflows Timeline Tools Customization Quick Share Improvements Layer and Symbol Management

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Adobe Animate New Features [June 2020 Update]

August 10, 2020

My LinkedIn Learning course, Adobe Animate New Features, was updated recently to include a new chapter specific to features in the June 2020 release of Animate 2020. These updates include: Animating with Auto-keyframes Using the Assets Panel Sharing for social distribution Creating a hands-on tutorial Importing and using a hands-on tutorial Using additional Canvas blend

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Animate CC (2019) is Here!!!

October 16, 2018

You may have noticed that there haven’t been any major releases of Animate CC this year. The reason is that they packed a bunch of new features into this single release! Here’s what’s new: Panoramic VR Document Type 360 VR Document Type VR View Panel Actions Wizard for VR Asset Warp Tool & Warped Objects

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Oracle Developers DevLive Interview at Pluralsight LIVE 2018

September 15, 2018

This was recorded a few weeks ago at Pluralsight LIVE 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s an interview for the Oracle Developers DevLive series around my session on Adobe Animate CC. Check it out, below!

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Animate CC: HTML5 Canvas Timeline Scrubber

August 6, 2018

Introduction While most animations produced through Animate CC simply play back according to the author’s design, it is entirely possible to provide control of the timeline to the user as well. We will need to build an interactive playback scrubber and write some code to allow the user to utilize this element to scrub the

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Animate CC: Looping Animations

August 5, 2018

Introduction There are a number of ways to loop animations within Animate CC but the method with the most control (without code) is through use of the Graphic Symbol. Through smart use of well-placed keyframes, you have full control over the looping behavior of this symbol type. We can also create looping animations with the

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Learn Adobe Animate CC for Multiplatform Animations

June 25, 2018

My new book, Learn Adobe Animate CC for Multiplatform Animations, is now available! This second edition is a revision of the Amazon bestseller “Learn Adobe Animate CC for Interactive Media” from 2016. The book contents have been fully updated for Adobe Animate CC (2018) and include over 10 hours of video lessons online. There is even

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Animate CC Building Custom HTML5 Components

June 11, 2018

My new course, “Animate CC Building Custom HTML5 Components“, has been published this evening by Pluralsight! Have you ever wanted to build your own custom HTML5 Canvas components for Animate CC? In this course, Animate CC Building Custom HTML5 Components, you’ll learn how to use, develop, test, and distribute custom components specifically for use in

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Speaking: Adobe MAX 2018!

June 6, 2018

The MAX Scheduler opened up a few days ago and I gave it a look this morning to find one of my labs has a mere 3 seats left. WOW. So I should probably, formally announce I’ll be speaking! L246 – CREATING MULTIPLATFORM ANIMATIONS WITH ANIMATE CC Joseph Labrecque – Senior Interactive Software Engineer, University

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