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FGES02
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December 12, 2016
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After Effects to Adobe Animate / interactive motion

  • December 12, 2016
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Hi guys!

I'm coming from an After Effects background and for personal projects interested in "interactive motion design".

Lets take directly an example, i would like to create animated infographics which will change their states by user interaction.

These should work for websites but also for interactive apps, for ios and android. I know these are different fields but lets keep it open (if possible)

I would like to do all the animations in After Effects, but then? What is the right workflow/tool?

Would it be correct bring the image sequences to adobe animate and than add the interaction to it to have the possibilities for multi purposes like mentioned above?

I'm also willed to learn javascript if needed  

Thanks for helping

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Correct answer kglad

by interactive installations (maybe its not the right definition, not sure) lets take an easy example,

an user is touching a graphic on an ipad/tab, the graphic is changing its state (animation), by a second touch on the new graphic the light in the room is changing.


that's basic animate pro interactivity and yes, animate pro can do that (and much more).

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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December 12, 2016

i'm not sure you should be doing the animations in after effects because (i believe) you will then be limited to 'playing' those videos in animate.  that can work if that's exactly what you want to do.

ie, press a button > see a video. press a different button > see video a different button etc.  if that's what you want, no problem.

you can use animate to create web-apps that are viewed in browsers, but if you want to also display in mobile browsers, animate currently has a bug that prevents its video component (which you'll probably use to display your ae videos) from playing any video more than once (unless it's looped).  i would expect that to be fixed in the next version of animate pro.

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FGES02Author
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December 13, 2016

Thanks for your answer. I wasn't sure if Animate was the right software in general for it, since i'm not only interested in web/app animations but especially in interactive installations like in museums etc...

So its a bit confusing which direction to try - should i learn ios? javascript? adobe animate?

But i think trying and playing around might be the key as always.

Does Animate has the same effect palettes and camera options like After Effects or are there more restrictions?

thanks mate

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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December 13, 2016

thanks! you gave me a good direction, i'm curious how Animate will help me with interactive installations


what do you mean by '..interactive installations'? 

i know what interactive means, but i don't know what you mean by installations.

1. animate can create web-based apps/pages viewed in browsers.

2. it can create apps that can be installed on android and on ios devices.

3. it can do more like create videos and bitmaps and vector graphics but it's weaker at video creation/editing than ae, weaker at bitmap creation/editing than ps and weaker at vector graphic creation/edition than illustrator.

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