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5 hours worth of material
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Overview
Get a complete guide to using InDesign's powerful animation features. Watch and learn how to animate logos, ads, and even books in fixed layout EPUB format.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Previewing the possibilities
- Supported format overview
- Setting up an animation workspace
- Built-in reference: The Animation Encyclopedia script
- Animation panel overview
- Applying and previewing basic animation presets
- Exploring the complex animation presets
- Modifying animation presets
- Adjusting animation preset duration and speed
- Understanding from/to appearance
- Working with rotation
- Modifying scaling properties
- Setting page load and page click start events
- Setting on click self and on button click start events
- Using Hide Until Animated/Hide After Animating
- Modifying animation preset motion paths
- Creating your own motion paths
- Understanding motion path direction
- Copying motion paths
- Setting timing order and linking objects timing using the Timing panel
- Using Timing panel delays
- Looping and timing-linked objects
- The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel
- Applying animation to multiple objects on one page
- Applying multiple animations to one object
- Animating type: Old movie reel headline
- Animating type: Typewriter effect
- Animating type: Bounce back effect
- Animating type: Motion blur
- Animating type: Digital flip sign
- Creating lines that draw
- Drawing with objects
- Filling jars and other containers
- Moving the rotation center point
- Animating infographics: Line graphs
- Animating infographics: Bar charts
- Animating infographics: Simple pie charts
- Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts
- Creating a slideshow
- Creating a moving bicycle
- Building things that blink
- Creating auto-scrolling text
- Creating color transitions
- Using buttons to trigger animations
- Including animations in Object States (MSOs)
- Working with grouped animations in MSOs
- Adding sound to animations
- Animating video frames
- Animating logos: World news
- Animating logos: Global systems
- Animating logos: Transportation matters
- Creating animated ads: Periodic elements
- Creating animated ads: Financial ratios
- Creating animated ads: Messaging
- Building an animated movie title page
- Animating an instructional page: Bicycle essentials
- Building an animated cookbook page
- Animating a textbook
- Using animations in fixed-layout EPUBs
- Using animations with Publish Online
- Creating and saving custom motion presets
- Managing and sharing custom motion presets
- Customizing animations via Snippets
- Copying animations
- Credits/acknowledgments
- Next steps
Taught by
Diane Burns
