Creating 2D Animation with the Adobe Creative Suite (Hardcover)

CREATING 2D ANIMATION WITH THE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE is an innovative text that teaches concepts and techniques needed to create and edit two-dimensional animations using the Adobe Creative Suite programs Illustrator, Photoshop,and Flash. Beginning with a review of the basic features and tools of each program, the text helps integrate their use via roundtrip editing, which enables seamless switching between applications for an efficient workflow. In addition to these practical software skills you need to bring visions to life, CREATING 2D ANIMATION WITH THE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE also explores essential animation concepts, character and story development, and the history of animation, providing a solid theoretical grounding to complement technical abilities. Exercises, activities, and open-ended creative projects throughout provide exposure to a variety of animation approaches--including cell or flip animation, stop-motion animation, Flash animation using tweens, and inverse kinematics--enabling designers to compile a diverse portfolio of high-quality animations to showcase artistic talent and technical skill.

《使用Adobe Creative Suite創作2D動畫》是一本創新的教材，教授使用Adobe Creative Suite軟體（Illustrator、Photoshop和Flash）創建和編輯二維動畫所需的概念和技巧。從對每個軟體的基本功能和工具的回顧開始，本書通過往返編輯來整合它們的使用，實現無縫切換應用程式，以實現高效的工作流程。除了這些實用的軟體技能，你還需要將視覺理念實現的能力，《使用Adobe Creative Suite創作2D動畫》還探討了基本的動畫概念、角色和故事發展以及動畫的歷史，提供了堅實的理論基礎來補充技術能力。書中的練習、活動和開放式創意項目提供了多種動畫方法的曝光，包括細胞或翻頁動畫、定格動畫、使用tweens的Flash動畫和逆向運動學，使設計師能夠編制多樣化的高質量動畫作品集，展示藝術才華和技術能力。