Formats and outputting

[rollersk8]

Im hoping people will be able to help me. Ive done a couple of Animate training courses and numerous online courses. Ive come away from all of them not feeling confident in a couple of pivotal things!

1. When creating an animation, how do you decide the correct format, ie: actionscript, HTML5, web GL etc. Basically, to get me started, my most usual projects are animated infographics for Wordpress sites. What format should I create them in? How do I figure the size of the stage, and when do I use actionscript?

2. When I am publishing my animation how do I export/ publish it correctly for use on a wordpress site?

I am a graphic designer by my original training and I am now trying to evolve into animation specifically of data. I realise I am very much a novice on web related issues but I have asked the two questions above the all 3 of the course leaders I have been on and they were unable to help me, which I find strange. Surely to be a sucessful animator these are two funamental factors?!

Im clearly missing something here, can anyone help?

[ankushr40215001]

Hey rollersk8,

I am sure the experts over here can give you better tips and tricks.

However  I have found  some really good learning content both external and internal for you with a hope to take up the graph of your learning curve.

Check these out -

• https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-web-designers-guide-to-adobe-animate-cc--cms-28240
• Adobe Animate CC Lesson #3 - My First Web Page - YouTube
• Create HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate CC

Cheers,

Ankush

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

1. If you're doing something that needs to work in mobile browsers, HTML5 Canvas would be the best choice.

2. One of the publish options from an HTML5 Canvas FLA in Animate is 'OAM'. There are OAM plugins for WordPress:

WP Edge Animate OAM Renderer — WordPress Plugins

That one was made for Edge Animate, which is a CSS animation tool, not Canvas. But, I think that an Animate OAM should work with that plugin.

You could either try, or ask in the WordPress forum to double check that Canvas based OAMs should work.