Adobe Animate Project: Intro to Animation

Elevate your high school art instruction and incorporate digital drawing and animation into your design curriculum by teaching animation with this Adobe Animate project. Access to Adobe Animate or Creative Cloud subscription is required.

In an Introduction to Design or Media Art course, learning program basics is an essential part. This includes 2 Adobe Animate activities that introduce students to basic tools and functions in Animate as well as tasking them with a larger project, animating a character.

The project is open-ended, allowing students to develop the character of their choice. They are pushed to think about the story, movements, and actions of the character they designed.

This lesson plan pack is extremely comprehensive. Even if you have zero experience with animation or Adobe Animate, you can learn along with the students with the resources included. Step-by-step instructions to learn program basics and an overview of the tools and menus are included.

All in all this Adobe Animate project pack has:

• Lesson Plan (with big idea, national standards, vocabulary, step-by-step instructions, and more)
• 2 PowerPoints to introduce concepts
• Animate animation activity walkthrough
• Research activity
• Animation brainstorm activity
• Project guide to walk students through the steps to animate their character using Adobe Animate
• In-progres and final critique reflections
• Critique activity
• Project checklist
• Rubric

The design field is ever-growing. Introduce students to the variety of creative careers they can pursue through design classes.

What teachers are saying…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I am in a hybrid situation and teaching this course for the first time. This was amazing with all of the different activities and the clear formatting. Students and I are now looking forward to what we are doing next! Worth every penny!” - Genevieve B.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I bought this bundle in a panic when I was quickly given a digital class and I am so glad I did! My class has had so much fun with the different projects and I love all of the extra how-to and resources added in to give more explanation on the different units! this bundle can be utilized in any setting and computer comprehension!” - Bethanie C.

Check out my shoe design project and teach your students the basics of Adobe Illustrator (this is a great precursor to this project). Check out my book cover and album design cover projects here (another great precursor and intro to Adobe Photoshop).

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