TCH430 Digital Media: Animate with Exam Prep is MSi curriculum that prepares students for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam. This course focuses on the basics of working in the animation industry, such as identifying the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing content, communicating design plans, understanding copyright and permissions, key animation, and interactive media terminology. Students will learn how to use core tools and features to create and modify vector elements, manage layers, apply basic auto-correction methods, manipulate digital graphics and media, apply effects, manage audio and video, and export assets for various platforms.

Chapter 1: Working in the Animation Industry

• Identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs for preparing content
• Determine whether the content is relevant to the purpose, the audience, the audience needs, and user experience and has an appropriate design for target devices
• Communicate with colleagues and clients about design plans
• Demonstrate knowledge of techniques for communicating ideas about design plans with peers and clients
• Determine the type of copyright, permissions, and licensing required to such as[H(1]  copyright, permissions, and licensing
• Identify legal and ethical considerations for using third-party content such as copyright, permissions, and licensing
• Identify when and how to obtain permissions to use images of people and locations
• Demonstrate knowledge of key terminology related to animation interactive media
• Demonstrate knowledge of animation terminology
• Demonstrate knowledge of interactive media
• Understand and use key terms related to multiplatform animation
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic design principles and best practices employed in the industry
• Communicate visually using the elements and principles of design and common design techniques
• Identify and use common typographic adjustments to create contrast, hierarchy, and enhanced readability/legibility
• Demonstrate knowledge of animation and interactive media principles
• Demonstrate knowledge of common animation principles
• Demonstrate knowledge of interactive media principles
• Create a document with the appropriate settings for multimedia projects
• Create a new document with appropriate settings for a new project
• Manage document settings for specific project needs
• Customize the application workspace and use visual aids for the layout
• Identify elements and customize the Animate workspace
• Configure application preferences
• Navigate a document
• Customize toolbar and timeline tools
• Use rulers, guides, and grids
• Import into and manage assets in a project
• Import media from various sources
• Manage assets in an Animate project
• Load external media
• Manage colors, swatches, gradients, and brushes
• Set the active fill and stroke color
• Create and customize a gradient
• Create, manage, and edit swatches
• Create and edits brushes
• Use the Timeline panel to organize content in space and time
• Manage and organize layers
• Recognize the different types of layers in the Layers panel
• Manage content over time
• Modify layer visibility using transparency and masks
• Adjust a layer’s visibility and transparency
• Create, apply, and manipulate masks
• Use core tools and features to create and modify vector elements
• Create vector graphics using a variety of tools
• Modify and edit vector graphics using a variety of vector tools
• Add and manipulate text using appropriate settings
• Use type tools to add typography to a project
• Adjust character settings
• Adjust paragraph settings
• Convert text to graphics
• Configure dynamic text and input text areas
• Make, manage, and manipulate selections
• Make selections using a variety of tools
• Modify and refine selections using various methods
• Group or ungroup selections
• Use basic techniques to manipulate digital graphics and media within an animation
• Rotate, flip, and transform objects, selections, groups, symbols, or graphical elements
• Use the camera to modify the view of the document
• Apply basic auto-correction methods and tools
• Modify and edit vector graphics using a variety of techniques
• Adjust the appearance of objects and selections using various tools
• Convert between bitmaps and vectors
• Modify the appearance of design elements using effects and graphic styles
• Use effects to modify symbol instances
• Apply, edit, and manage filters
• Create and modify animations
• Apply and adjust transformations using keyframes
• Animate objects using frame-by-frame and tween techniques
• Modify and manipulate symbols for animation
• Add interactive or dynamic content to a document
• Add and modify interactive elements to your document
• Manipulate interactive text elements using code
• Add and modify code
• Control and configure audio and video in a project
• Incorporate audio into a project
• Incorporate video into a project
• Prepare content for export to the Web, screen, and other platforms
• Check document for errors and project specifications
• Export assets from an Animate document
• Save in native file formats for Animate (.fla or.xfl)
• Export assets from an Animate document

Chapter 2: Project Setup and Interface

Chapter 3: Organization of Documents

Chapter 4: Create and Modify Multimedia Elements

Chapter 5: Publishing Digital Media

Chapter 6: Project

Test Preparation

This content is practice intended to help prepare for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam and is not scored.