Animate A Basic Engine With Adobe Illustrator & Animate

Dive into the world of digital animation with Ricoshae’s Project Engine course.

What you'll learn

Master the fundamentals of Illustrator to design basic engine components

Learn to animate mechanical movements using Adobe Animate.

Incorporate interactive buttons to control animation playback.

Publish an animation to a Learning Management System or Website

Requirements

Access to Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Animate

Description

Designed for educators, instructional designers, and digital content creators, this course offers a hands-on approach to building and animating a 4-stroke engine from scratch.Utilising Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Animate, you'll gain the skills to craft interactive animations that enhance online learning experiences.Whether you're just getting started with animation or looking to take your educational content to the next level, this hands-on course will guide you through the essential first steps of creating and animating custom visuals. Perfect for instructional designers, eLearning developers, and educators, the course begins with building a simple four-stroke engine using Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create clean, scalable vector graphics—an important foundation for animation work.Once your engine graphic is complete, you'll bring it to life in Adobe Animate. We’ll walk you through the animation process step by step, covering motion tweens, layers, and timeline control. By the end of the animation section, you’ll have a functioning animated diagram that clearly shows the moving parts of a basic engine—an ideal visual for technical education or science topics.But we don’t stop there. The course also demonstrates how to export your animation for various learning environments and shows how to embed it into common learning management systems (LMS). As a bonus, you’ll learn how to add interactive buttons that allow learners to control the animation—adding a layer of engagement and user control that enhances learning outcomes.No prior experience required—just a desire to create compelling educational visuals!What you will learn:Adobe Illustrator Basics - Master the fundamentals of Illustrator to design detailed engine components.Animation Techniques - Learn to animate mechanical movements using Adobe Animate.Interactive Features - Incorporate interactive buttons to control animation playback.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Structure of the course

Section 2: Illustrator

Lecture 3 Starting the project

Lecture 4 Selecting the inspiration

Lecture 5 Meet the Adobe Animate UI

Lecture 6 Designing the case

Lecture 7 The Crankshaft, Rod and Piston

Lecture 8 Sparkplug

Lecture 9 Intake and exhaust valves

Lecture 10 Spark

Lecture 11 Improving the Illustrator design

Lecture 12 Preparing Illustrator for Adobe Animate

Section 3: Animate

Lecture 13 Importing and preparing layers

Lecture 14 Main engine motion

Lecture 15 Valves and spark motion

Lecture 16 Adding interactive buttons

Lecture 0 Publishing your animation

Section 4: LMS integration

Lecture 17 Adding to the Canvas LMS

Lecture 18 Adding to the Moodle LMS

Lecture 19 Uploading to a server and Wordpress

Section 5: Thank you

Lecture 20 All done

Designed for Instructional designers and eLearning developers that would like to build their skills and provide higher quality experiences for their students.