Adobe Animate: Creating an Animated Infographic

Name: Adobe Animate: Creating an Animated Infographic
Author: Jessica Henley

Learn how to create an animated infographic.

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In this lesson, I will show you how to create infographic ideas. You wanna navigate to file and head over to new. When you have new, you will be presented with the new document tab. You were under the social tab before, so make sure to switch to character animation. Select standard, which has a preset of a width of 640 and a height of 480. Keep the frame rate at 30 frames-per-second and the platform type action script 3.0. Then hit create. Here, we have the preset document, and I have the library. In the library, I'm going to place my ideas for the infographic. If you don't do the library tab, the icon will be displayed here, and the icon will look like a stack of books. All you do is just grab the stack of books and drag it over here. Now, looking at the library, it's empty, but if you right-click in the empty area, you can create a new symbol. That's one way of how to create a new symbol. The second way is to click this plus sign down here, which is new symbol. I'm going to put this as ideas. Over here in the library, we can see that we have a new symbol called ideas. When creating infographic ideas, there's some things that we need to consider such as the following. With the text tool activated, I can go to properties. Right now, I have a width of 65, but you can change it depending on your liking. The font color is set to black. You can change the font color by clicking on the box here. Now I'm ready to start with my ideas. I'm going to call this ideas. And below, things to consider when creating the infographic. Text to display. On your infographic, you'll have different texts such as, in my case, a restaurant, still sticking to the theme of cupcakes. So, for example, an infographic would have the name of the restaurant. It would also have text based on different examples of menu items, and such as the cost, and for those menu items, maybe going in more detail of what the ingredients are. Those are just some ideas, but text to display. Also, when creating your infographic, you wanna consider the visual design elements. These are the things that we will use in order to create the infographic. Now that the library has the ideas, we will continue to reference to it. Also, you're welcome to add other ideas as well. In the next lesson, I will show you adding and editing symbols. Thanks for watching.

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Course Description

In these lessons, students will learn how to create animated infographics. We will begin by exploring how to use the library in order to brainstorm different ideas for an infographic. We will discuss design elements layout, and how to add and edit symbols in the Adobe Animate library. We will explore how to organize designs in the library so that they can be easily retrieved for future projects. Students will learn how to combine multiple symbols to create one design in the scene, and how to create buttons for an infographic. We will also discuss how to animate infographics using layers on the timeline, and how to choose frames on the timeline to save the animation. In this course, students will learn how to create an animated infographic. We will explore how to brainstorm ideas, create and edit symbols for designs, create the layout, and animate the infographic.

What You'll Learn

Use the Adobe Animate library to brainstorm and organize infographic ideas for easy retrieval in future projects
Add and edit symbols, then combine multiple symbols to complete a single design in the scene
Plan the infographic design layout and create buttons for the infographic
Animate the infographic using layers on the timeline
Access the timeline to save keyframes and choose frames that save the animation
Lock, hide, and unhide layers while working on the animation

Key Takeaways

The course teaches students to create an animated infographic from brainstorming ideas through to a finished animation.
The Adobe Animate library is used to brainstorm ideas and to add, edit, and organize symbols so designs can be retrieved for future projects.
Multiple symbols can be combined to create a single design in the scene, and buttons can be created for an infographic.
Infographics are animated using layers on the timeline, with frames chosen to save the animation.
Working with the timeline includes saving keyframes and locking, hiding, and unhiding layers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to create an animated infographic, including how to brainstorm ideas, create and edit symbols for designs, create the layout, and animate the infographic.

What lessons does this course cover?

The course covers four lessons: Creating Infographic Ideas, Adding and Editing Symbols, Infographic Design Layout, and Animating Your Infographic.

What software and skills does this course focus on?

The course focuses on Adobe Animate and on building infographics, including using the Adobe Animate library, working with symbols, and animating on the timeline.

How are the infographics animated in this course?

Infographics are animated using layers on the timeline, where you access the timeline to save keyframes and choose frames to save the animation.

What can I do with symbols and the library in this course?

You will learn to add and edit symbols in the Adobe Animate library, organize designs so they can be easily retrieved for future projects, and combine multiple symbols to complete one design in the scene.