One of the major things about this update is that Flash Professional has been rebranded as Animate with the software fully updated and reconfigured to match HTML5 standards while still allowing users to use animation techniques from Flash.
Adobe’s rebranding to Animate brings the software in line with current HTML5 standards and avoids the stigma associated with Flash. Essentially, Animate is a vector based animation tools which makes use of a timeline and is designed to create interactive content for any platform. Sound familiar?
One-third of the content produced in Flash Professional is HTML5.
One of the most important parts of an animation program is the timeline, which gives you control over the various elements. With the timeline, you can do amazing things and one of these is to make use of Inverse Kinematics.
This is a way of animating objects using bones chained into linear or branched armatures in parent-child relationships. When one bone moves, those connected to it move with it and vise-versa.
Inverse kinematics will allow you to create a more natural motion and define limits. That said some animators prefer not to use it and to set up that type of animation manually. According to an Adobe source, some of these animators feel it gives them more control.
Adobe Muse was created for the person who wants to build a website without the need for coding. If you want a site which is built as a standalone and doesn’t use WordPress, this is a good option. One of the benefits of building a Muse site is it’s far less vulnerable to hacking, unlike a WordPress site. One caveat, if you build a site with Muse, you won’t be able to use it as a template for WordPress.
One question asked by users is if you can export data from Muse to an HTML editor. While the answer is “Yes,” that’s not the primary purposed of Muse. According to Adobe, it’s best to build the site within Muse, unless one has a specific reason for wanting to build it elsewhere.