Overview Adobe Animate

What is Adobe Animate?

Adobe Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool used to create interactive courses, software simulations, responsive learning content, and interactive videos for online education and training. It provides design options, ready-to-use assets, and a widget gallery to help users build engaging learning experiences without needing to be programmers.

Key Features and Capabilities

Interactive Content Creation:

Users can create various types of interactive content, including:

Software simulations: Demonstrate software processes or provide hands-on practice.
Responsive courses: Adapt to different devices, ensuring a consistent experience for learners on desktops, tablets, and phones.
Interactive videos: Add quizzes, questions, and other interactive elements to videos to increase engagement.
Slide-based and long-scroll content: Design traditional slide-based courses or create more fluid, web-friendly scrolling content.

User-Friendly Interface:

The software features an intuitive interface designed for ease of use.

Ready-to-Use Assets: It includes a library of ready-to-go slides, media assets, and other design elements to speed up the development process.
Widget Gallery: A collection of interactive widgets is available to add specific functionality and interactivity to courses.

Who Uses It?

Organizations and individuals use Adobe Captivate to develop training modules, onboarding materials, and other educational content.

A new age for animation.

Bring games, TV shows, and web content to life with captivating animations. Create cartoons, banner ads, doodles, and avatars, or add motion to eLearning content and infographics. With Adobe Animate, you can publish quickly to multiple platforms and formats, reaching audiences seamlessly across any screen.

Animate just about anything.

Design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. Bring cartoons and banner ads to life. Create animated doodles and avatars. And add action to e-learning content and infographics. With Animate, you can quickly publish to multiple platforms in just about any format, and reach viewers on any screen.

Get your game on.

Create interactive web and mobile content for games and ads using powerful illustrations and animation tools. Build game environments, design start screens, and integrate audio. Share your animations as augmented reality experiences. With Animate, you can do all your asset design and coding right inside the app.
Create characters that come alive.

Sketch and draw more expressive characters with Adobe Fresco live brushes that blend and bloom just like the real thing. Make your characters blink, talk, and walk with simple frame-by-frame animation. And create interactive web banners that respond to user interactions such as mouse movement, touch, and clicks.
Go further, faster, with Adobe Sensei.

Create characters that truly come alive.

Sketch expressive characters using Adobe Fresco’s live brushes that blend and bloom like real paint. Animate with ease—make them blink, talk, and walk using simple frame-by-frame techniques. Go further by designing interactive web banners that respond to user actions such as clicks, taps, and mouse movements.

Publish to any platform.

Reach your audience on desktop, mobile, and TV by exporting your animations to multiple platforms, including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash/Adobe AIR, and custom platforms like SVG. You can include code right inside your projects and even add actions without having to code.

Advanced rigging

Bring character, rig, and motion together in one component for easy editing, or mix and match to personalize each piece.

Quick sharing and publishing

Just click once to share composition to social media in your favorite outputs. Now with support for Twitter, YouTube, Video and animated GIF support.

Asset Panel

Now supporting sound clips and additional animations, this panel offers pre-made assets to help you work faster. Choose from a variety of characters, background, audio rigs and motion assets.

Take a hands-on tutorial

Start animating faster with a helpful new tutorial that takes you through the basics of your first animation step by step.