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yuztech
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June 20, 2018
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Can we design and animate 2D videos using Adobe Animate?

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Can we create 2D characters and animate them such as video on this page: https://www.illumeo.com/expert-certifications using adobe animate only? or we have to use some other tools. A detailed answer would be much appreciated.

I see some people create these videos fairly quickly, so I am sure there should be proper tool for that.

https://www.illumeo.com/expert-certifications

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Correct answer _keyframer

Yes of course. I do it all the time. I create an ActionScript 3.0 document set to 1920x1080 and usually 24fps or 30 depending on what I'm animating. When I'm done animating I export it to video and have it open automatically in the Adobe Media Encoder where I encode it using H.264 compression. Some projects I'll bring multiple videos exported from Animate CC into Premiere pro to edit them together.

As for more details than that, hard to know exactly what you want. It's like asking if I have a hammer can I build a house and if so tell me step-by-step. It's difficult to go into that much detail without knowing your skill set, experience and what you want to build exactly.

But the answer is, yes. Yes you can just use Animate CC to design, draw and set up characters and other assets for motion and create almost whatever you can imagine.

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Community Expert
June 21, 2018

Yes of course. I do it all the time. I create an ActionScript 3.0 document set to 1920x1080 and usually 24fps or 30 depending on what I'm animating. When I'm done animating I export it to video and have it open automatically in the Adobe Media Encoder where I encode it using H.264 compression. Some projects I'll bring multiple videos exported from Animate CC into Premiere pro to edit them together.

As for more details than that, hard to know exactly what you want. It's like asking if I have a hammer can I build a house and if so tell me step-by-step. It's difficult to go into that much detail without knowing your skill set, experience and what you want to build exactly.

But the answer is, yes. Yes you can just use Animate CC to design, draw and set up characters and other assets for motion and create almost whatever you can imagine.

Animator and content creator for Animate CC
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    yuztechAuthor
    New Participant
    June 21, 2018

    Really spot on. My skill set is very good at photoshop but now also stepping into videos so need to know which tools are the best and easy to start with.

    chenjil43641795
    chenjil43641795
    Brainiac
    June 21, 2018

    Animation is not painting.

    I hope you can read some books about animation first.

    chenjil43641795
    chenjil43641795
    Brainiac
    June 21, 2018

    You can use ANIMATECC to make.

    No other tools are required.

    The speed of production lies in your experience and your resources.

    Typically, after making animations, we store common backgrounds, objects, and characters in the library.

    This will be used directly the next time you proceed.

    The more you store in the library, the faster you can make animations.

    albertd9194959
    albertd9194959
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2018

    Hi,

    Personally it depends, is it for personal use, or business.

    For Personal use, yea man, you can make some awesome stuff, especially if you have a tablet and have some drawing skills!

    For Business use, if your just making a video like the link you provided, there are far more cost effective solutions.

    If you don't need any interactions or only basic interactions embeded in a video file, then After Effects is quick and easy, and you can embed basic click events into the video file itself.....there are tons of explainer video templates on various market places for 10 to 50 USD with tons of stuff, from pre-built pre-rigged customisable characters, to scenes to icons, its endless. https://videohive.net/item/explainer-video-toolkit-3/18812448

    If you want a cheaper solution, look at using a WYSIWYG explainer video creator, just google "explainer video maker" adobe has their own video maker product called, Adobe Spark, never used it though. Some packages contain libraries of characters, scenes, etc etc that you can use.

    Just depends on cost and use and client requirements...

    Adding to this, does anyone know if there is a market place for Adobe Animate content similar to the above link ?

    Regards,

    Joseph Labrecque
    Joseph Labrecque
    Community Expert
    June 20, 2018

    Hi. Not sure the detail you are looking for, but you can absolutely design videos like this using Animate - yes. Using Animate only.

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    yuztechAuthor
    New Participant
    June 21, 2018

    Interesting, can you point to any good tutorial? Have you ever designed yourself using Animate?

    _keyframer
    _keyframer
    Community Expert
    June 21, 2018

    If you google "flash tutorials" and/or "animate cc tutorials" there are countless resources because this program has been around for 20 years. Animate CC is a rebranding of Flash.

    Yes, I've designed a few things using this application

    Animator and content creator for Animate CC
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