Creating Social Content with Adobe Animate CC

Creating Social Content with Adobe Animate CC

1h 32mIntermediate2019-07-18

Authors

Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque

University Professor, Adobe Educator, Studio Head

Course details

Feeling like your social media game is less than inspired? In this course, learn how to use Adobe Animate to create unique, eye-catching social content that you can easily repurpose and share across a variety of social networking platforms. Instructor Joseph Labrecque shows how to create simple design assets and animate them using the robust tweening system within Animate. Along the way, he shares tips for ensuring that your content can be easily adapted for use on different platforms. He then steps through how to export still images, animated GIFs, and videos; adapt your Animate content for use in social profiles; and post your work on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using each platform's recommended settings.

Learning objectives
Drawing and animating content in Animate
Encapsulating animations as symbols
Exporting still images, GIFs, and videos
Adapting your Animate content for social profiles
Modifying and posting content on various platforms

Skills covered

Adobe AnimateInteractive Web ContentWeb GraphicsWeb DesignAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • Build content for social media platforms with Adobe Animate CC
  • What you should know
  • About the exercise files

Creating and Animating Your Content

  • Considerations for social content
  • Preparing a new document
  • Drawing simple shapes
  • Drawing complex shapes
  • Working with text and symbols
  • Animating content
  • Completing the animation
  • Animation encapsulation

Exporting Your Animations

  • Exporting vs. publishing documents
  • Exporting still images
  • Exporting animated images
  • Exporting video for social platforms

Preparing Your Social Profiles

  • LinkedIn personal background
  • Twitter header
  • Facebook cover

Preparing Shared Content

  • LinkedIn shared content
  • Twitter shared content
  • Facebook shared content
  • Instagram posts

Conclusion

  • Further information
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