Getting the Most from Symbols in Edge Animate
In this series of Edge Animate tutorials, we'll talk about getting the most from working with symbols in Edge Animate. Software required: Edge Animate CC 2014.
What you'll learn
In this series of Edge Animate tutorials, we'll talk about getting the most from working with symbols in Edge Animate. We'll start by creating animations that we'll convert to symbols. We'll take a look at how we can add actions to our symbols while keeping everything independent of outside elements. We'll also talk about how we can reuse a symbol for other projects and how we can easily edit images, properties, and text within that symbol to customize it for our needs. We'll finish by talking about more complex symbols that are nested within each other and can be controlled remotely by other elements. By the end of this Edge Animate training you'll have an understanding of how symbols work and how using them will speed up your workflow by combining the elements in your project in a way that's easy to reuse and modify. Software required: Edge Animate CC 2014.
Table of contents
- Converting Animations to Symbols 8m
- Reusing and Editing Symbols 4m
- Creating a Symbol with a Peelback Animation 7m
- Using Unconventional Clipping with Groups 6m
- Converting Our Groups to a Symbol and Adding Actions 6m
- Customizing Our Symbol for Our Other Gallery Categories 8m
- Working with Complex Symbols 9m
- Creating Remote Controlled Actions for Our Symbols 12m
About the author
Alex is a motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Starting out his career in illustration and design gave Alex a firm foundation in the more traditional forms of art. As he refined his skills, he eventually was pulled into the world of motion animation, as well as product design. It was there that Alex was able to take his artistic skills to new heights and really develop himself as a well-rounded CG artist. Whether you need a better workflow for building website layouts, or a crash course in... more