Today we had an Adobe Animate introduction class. It was a fun class but I’m not really sure how I feel about Animate.
Our first exercise was to experiment with the brushes by designing a character. Shaun suggested we draw inspiration from objects in our room, but I just used that idea to step outside of my comfort zone with my usual ‘style’ and I created this character who I would definitely not want to interact with ever!
The brushes remind me a lot of Toon Boom Harmony brushes.
Then we were able to play around with the line art and other tools by making a simple animation, like a bouncy ball or a character waving. Naturally I resorted to Alfie waving, and as a last minute addition added a little flurry of snowflakes circling his head, drawn frame-by frame.
Other than learning the basics, I don’t know if I’d ever chose to use Animate by itself. It sort of just seems unnecessarily complicated and if it doesn’t do anything that TV Paint, Clip Studio or Toon Boom cant, I don’t really see much need to use it.