Adobe Illustrator (21/22)
Course Overview
Your animation is produced using amongst other things Adobe Animate software. This is Adobes full-featured animation package used for all kinds of animation products. Other software may be used as available.
What topics are covered?
Getting started, the Illustrator workspace; Setting up an Illustrator document and working with art boards; How to make selections; Understanding and using the layers panel; Creating shapes and paths; Drawing, transforming, arranging objects; How to use colour in Illustrator Working with spot colours and colour swatches; Appreciating path, fills and strokes; Working with paths and mastering the pen tool; Working with brushes, create Custom Brushes and graphic styles; Using type and fonts; Alignment, distribution and spacing; Working with art brushes and brush strokes; Graphic styles, warps, warp brushes and the blend tool; Working with images and photographs Trace and colour artwork with Live Trace, Live Paint and Live Colour; Working with symbols; The gradient mesh tools; Using transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows and glows; Introduction to designing infographics and using graphs; Adjusting appearances and applying multiple fills and strokes from the Appearance panel; Tracing and Live paint; Saving, printing and exporting; How Illustrator fits in with the rest of Creative Suite.
Frequently asked questions
Your animation is produced using amongst other things Adobe Animate software. This is Adobes full-featured animation package used for all kinds of animation products. Other software may be used as available.
Some people come for defined reasons, others for the sheer pleasure of learning and no previous experience or learning is expected or required. Just have a willingness to explore whats there and be prepared to experiment. Who knows? Your experimentation might open up a whole new direction for yourself and others.
These applications will run happily on a similar specification PC to a Mac. Most of the exercises can also be completed on slightly older versions of the software, and all exercises can be done with either Mac or PC variants.
There are no direct additional costs, but you should consider bringing a memory stick - at least 16GB - to save your work to.
A memory stick is required, we recommend a minimum size of 16GB.
These applications will run happily on a similar specification PC to a Mac. Most of the exercises can also be completed on slightly older versions of the software, and all exercises can be done with either Mac or PC variants.