Adobe Animate Vocabulary Review

Use this tool to custom-define a brush by setting parameters of the brush such as shape and angle

• Pencil

• Brush

• Pen

• Symbol

Use this tool to use Inverse kinematics (IK), a way of animating objects using bones chained into linear or branched armatures in parent-child relationships

• Brush

• Pen

• Bone

• Pencil

Use to mimic a virtual camera movement.

• Transformation Anchor

• Bone

• Motion Tween

• Camera

Use to draw circles and ovals

• Ellipsis

• Rectangle

• Pencil

• Symbol

Use to draw and edit freehand lines

• Pencil

• Brush

• Pen

• Shape Tween

Use to draw straight and curved lines to create objects.

• Pencil

• Pen

• Rectangle

• Ellipsis

Use to draw squares and rectangles.

• Rectangle

• Ellipsis

• Camera

• Workspace

Use the anchor points of the connecting segments in the asset to display direction handles, which consist of direction lines that end in direction points. The angle and length of the direction lines determine the shape and size of the curved segments. Move the direction points to reshape the curves.

• Workspace

• Transform

• Transformation Anchor

• Keyframe

Use to scale, rotate, or skew a selection.

• Free Transform

• Workspace

• Transformation Anchor

• Shape Tween

Any arrangement of the panels, bars, and windows

• Free Transform

• Workspace

• Camera

• Keyframe