From the course: Learning Adobe Animate CC: Animation
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Shadow - Adobe Animate Tutorial
From the course: Learning Adobe Animate CC: Animation
Shadow
- [Voiceover] It's really nice, especially if you a figure that is floating over the ground, to have a shadow. It really helps sell how high he is in the air. So let's do that. So, we're gonna go into the scene again, just click on it. And I'm gonna put the stage on. And we're going to work from his resting pose. We'll put the artwork in there for the shadow, new layer, shadow, and I'll just make a F7 there for a blank piece, and we'll hit the ellipse tool, and we'll pick a, black is best, I think. And then we can make it transparent. Looks good already, very cartoony. So let's get rid of the black outline, we don't need that. Just the color area itself. And then we can actually go down to about 33% opacity, and that way it will be transparent. So, you know if we float it above, we'll see it's see through. So it'll take on the properties of anything beneath it. And you can lift them higher opacity, or lower if you think that's too much, but I think that's pretty good. So let's hit F8…
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Motion tweens, classic8m 1s
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Guide layers5m 11s
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Squash and stretch4m 17s
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Shape tweens8m 16s
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Envelope and distort4m 15s
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Nested animation5m 42s
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Shadow7m 20s
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Copying keyframes4m 17s
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Stagger4m
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Explosion3m 16s
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Paint Brush tool4m 49s
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FX Smoke7m 13s
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Camera moves6m 25s
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Adding text6m 38s
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Adding sound5m 50s
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