I'm new to Animate 2020. The tutorials that Adobe provides are maddenly out of date. I can get around changed UI from earlier versions, but there are many broken aspects. The "Create a 2D Character Animation" tutorial is supposed to take 45 minutes but it is taking me hours. For example : When demonstrating to change the color of a shape with a gradient, the tutorial shows double clicking one of the the gradient sliders and then the cursor becomes an eyedroper to sample colors in the scene. It doesn't work. The eye dropper samples the colors from the scene but doesn't change that gradient slider color.When showing a brush stroke using a design from the brush library, the tutorial mentions using the Paint Brush tool but by default, only the Fluid Brush toll and Classic Brush tool are visible and neither provided the indended effect from the tutorial. So I had to watch the tutorial several times to get understand that the Classic Brush tool is different from the Paint Brush tool. These outdated tutorials are a tremendous waste of time.

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Why are tutorials OUTDATED?

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April 2, 2020
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I'm new to Animate 2020. The tutorials that Adobe provides are maddenly out of date. I can get around changed UI from earlier versions, but there are many broken aspects.

The "Create a 2D Character Animation" tutorial is supposed to take 45 minutes but it is taking me hours. For example :

When demonstrating to change the color of a shape with a gradient, the tutorial shows double clicking one of the the gradient sliders and then the cursor becomes an eyedroper to sample colors in the scene. It doesn't work. The eye dropper samples the colors from the scene but doesn't change that gradient slider color.
When showing a brush stroke using a design from the brush library, the tutorial mentions using the Paint Brush tool but by default, only the Fluid Brush toll and Classic Brush tool are visible and neither provided the indended effect from the tutorial. So I had to watch the tutorial several times to get understand that the Classic Brush tool is different from the Paint Brush tool.

These outdated tutorials are a tremendous waste of time.

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dcb4him2

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I had the same problem with out-dated tutorials. I found this YouTube tutorial that really is helping me by TitTut

Intro to Adobe Animate 2020 [1/4] | Beginners Tutorial

https://youtu.be/7huMYp7WpsI

storesmart

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I'm going through that same tutorial right now and I'm pulling my hair out because I can't figure out the cloud. The properties panel on my computer is not the same as the tutorial video. Infuriating!

n. tilcheff

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ps.

Also if you are interested in some serious information about how to use the program for character animation, here are a bunch of articles for later when you will be more comfortable with the interface and functionality.

http://flash-powertools.com/workflow/

http://flash-powertools.com/character-rigging-for-flash-animation/

http://flash-powertools.com/keeping-cycles-flexible-for-easy-re-timing-by-using-service-frame-and-working-two-levels-deep/

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation

n. tilcheff

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Hi mate,

Just on the point of the Color Picker behaving not the way it should, are you on a Mac?

If so you OS might be preventing it to work properly.

One of the devs posted this image below some time ago: