How to use Masks - Adobe Animate CC Tutorial

Masks are an important part of every animators toolkit. This video covers how masking works in Adobe Animate and how you can use masks in your animation.
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Creating and editing masks
02:28 Masking multiple layers
03:05 Animating a mask frame by frame
04:09 Masking with Text
05:31 Masking with Symbols
07:04 Animating a mask with Tweens
08:42 Animating the masked layers
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#adobeanimate #masking #masks

[@greedonever]

I come back to this video every time I need to do a mask in Adobe Animate. Every time! I am glad it's here. Thank you.

[@eightbitbert]

Was trying to figure out how to make a scrolling background for only a certain section while trying to maintain a transparent background, and this just solved my problem. Thank you!

[@stormytea351]

Thank you so much Devon! This tutorial is exactly what I need to continue with a project where I was stuck. I greatly appreciate it and am excited to learn more of Animate with your videos!

[@devonkong]

Glad I could help! Let me know if there's anything else you're stuck on in Animate, I'd love to solve every problem that exists

[@JeezyToons]

Please continue making videos like this…
It’s really helpful.
Why did you stop??

[@mousamighosh4113]

U are so underrated😩

[@danawigdor]

Best tutorial style on the internet. Clear, organized terrific instruction. You're a natural. Many many thanks

[@IC4nia]

Love your segments! Thanks for simplifying use cases

[@RadioactiveVikings]

Great tutorial! I always have to remind myself how to do this each time and your tutorial was super easy to follow along!

[@devonkong]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@starboy_02]

hi Devan ! I hope you continue doin this video, it's help me alot with my assignment, thank you !

[@devonkong]

That's great to hear! Let me know if you want me to make a video about something specific 💪🏼

[@changonnaexpress5402]

Thank you so much for the valuable information! I learned a lot. You deserve more subs and views Devon. Best wishes for you! 😊

[@thymol_blau]

Great videos! watched them now for one hour and actually know how animate work! Great explain videos!!!

[@puzhupuchi7136]

Doing good job bro.. fully understand the concept 🤩

[@amateuranimator10]

i tought myself how to mask but was confused why I couldn't animate the masked object thank you for showing me how to

[@devonkong]

Awesome! Glad to hear you're now a mask master 🧠

[@dylka]

Great explanation, thank you for sharing!

[@devonkong]

Glad it was helpful!

[@RantyCat]

Subbed + liked. This is damn underrated.

[@devonkong]

Appreciate the support 💜

[@ludan14]

Fantastic tutorial, thats was exactly what i needed!

[@budimanaji90]

Thank you so much for this tutorial..can't wait to see more..please make a tutorial about camera in animate

[@devonkong]

Good idea!

[@yapayapanimation]

@@devonkong hello again..
Can you make video about scaling when export to png secuence (from 720px to 1920px) :D..thank you

[@pradeeppal6926]

very helpful brother
nice work

[@PupunGiri]

nice

[@bigdreams4509]

Thank you so much brother

[@devonkong]

You're welcome BigDreamer 😴

[@nedrataib1531]

thank you!!

[@Wowowow738]

wow masking is easier than i thought!

[@legufka]

thank you sir

[@devonkong]

Thanks for watching!

[@eazy.fax.official]

Thankyou Kong

[@JohanScherft]

The masks always shows the drawn object. Is it also possible to invert the mask, so it hides everything it covers?

[@ishant2963]

Thank you so much bro

[@shrill_pkm]

Thanks!

[@willbedeveloping]

How would I mask a motion guide? So that only the contents of the guide are shown

[@misterhayz5177]

Great video, thank you!

[@harshadaaupare]

Thank you so much

[@shanmyrk7154]

i am used to After Effects and i hate Adobe Animate timeline. it looks so unconvinient. Thanks to you i am geting used to it

[@mihaelabela]

very nice explained

[@Roha-sStopMotion]

you means tye second number motion tween is use in masking and unnasking

[@WhyITravel.]

Thank you. It helps !!

[@ChootoBhai]

Osm tutorial

[@devonkong]

Thank you ✨

[@dosdee]

Thank you!!!

[@Star_0ffical348]

I like your video animate but what app did you animate?
Cuz im just making anime laugh
So i tell you what is app do you use from animate because everyone has a android or Apple cuz mine is Android

[@ravahkingss449]

Hello sir.
I have a little question.
When I do my roughs in Adobe animate on one layer, and later on do the clean up on another layer, HOW DO I HIDE THE ROUGH LAYER??????????.
Because wen I press the hide button ( the eye on the timeline ), it hides the roughs, yes. But wen I use the test function to test out my animation, the roughs still appears.
Even wen I create the final MP4 video, the roughs still appears.
So how do I hide the layer completely. Do I use the masks function???

[@Ostaaaa]

Hey ! I have the same problem... Did you find a solution ???? I searched everywhere, nothing

[@ravahkingss449]

@@Ostaaaa I finally got it a while back after a lot of research.
Set the rough layer as a guide layer. Then it can turn off when you do your clean ups.

[@Ostaaaa]

So, in fact, we have to convert the mask and the masked layer in graphic, it's not clear 'cause, the preview doesnt let us see that the masked layer is raw (sorry for bad english)

[@ravahkingss449]

@@Ostaaaa no masking.
The layer you drew your roughs on , just turn it to guide layer. That's it

[@alfonsocanas8880]

you are awesome! thank you a lot!!!

[@savitasingh3727]

U are so good in animate CC

[@devonkong]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@PuppetMotion599]

thank you

[@factsin1minute383]

THANKS

[@kishka47]

Thanksssssss!

[@krishnaej1]

Can you tell me how to invert the mask?

[@devonkong]

Unfortunately there isn't an 'invert mask' setting (there should be!)
You'll just have to draw the mask inverted

[@Nightowl-2k.]

Thank you!

[@digitalmaniak]

any way to do gradient opacity mask, like a soft edge mask?

[@devonkong]

Hmm, might need to use Movie Clip Symbols for that

[@ehsan_shardum]

Hei man can u show how to sync those cool animation with a song or a music?

[@zoyatheangel]

yo cool sanks u , useful!

[@Ryota678]

Keep it up 👍

[@user-wk6uy8fn6d]

Is it possible to invert a mask?

[@mubashirimaginates915]

Which version of animate are you using??

[@ronaldwilliamrobertdaniel1252]

Thanx man ❤️

[@rajsuthar999]

You must magnify the cursor area.

[@ralphgeraldo2jam]

A tutorial about Color grading/shadows/ or animation background 😄😄

[@awesomegameshub5738]

Are you gonna do any videos about python ? BTW your videos are so informative and to the point. 👍🏻

[@devonkong]

Thanks! If i did teach Python, I'd probably make a new channel for it - no plans to do that right now though

[@kit27x16]

Everytime i tried to do the mask my whole text and background vanished. I cant tell what im doing wrong.

[@devonkong]

It's a bit hard for me to help without screenshots etc, but I've set up a Discord server for this purpose if you're still stuck: discord.gg/KvpVqKtx

[@tarsootv4345]

Hello dear friend, thank you very much for your good training. I wanted to ask that you also teach hand and foot animation. Thanks again.❤️

[@devonkong]

Hi! What do you mean by hand and foot animation?

[@tarsootv4345]

@@devonkong Hi, I mean using bone tools

[@sotiris2273]

yessss

[@fatmaelhosary6875]

how to move mask with code? js

[@devonkong]

I don't know, sorry 😅

[@aswinas5426]

/helpful

[@gottafindacoolname]

could you show how to make shading with masks?

[@devonkong]

Great idea, I'll add this to my list!

[@golpowala123]

Hlw sir

[@gabrielwachong8374]

There is no way to reverse/flip/invert the mask! Lazy devs hope they read this and add the most basic of features that i cant beleive they dont have in this expensive piece of software!

[@Kinetic_Animations]

So far, Adobe Animate is one of the worst softwares in the world… I know After Effects, I know Premiere, but this is is just garbage… Hopefully it makes sense soon, or they drop an atomic bomb on it and start over, because so far… It seems that there is no sense to how anything works in the software! How do you invert the mask? Why would anyone want to trace everything but the thing they to delete? That’s so backwards!!! Can you tell I’m frustrated? LOL

[@devonkong]

That's annoying! Maybe your After Effects project and Animate video have different frame rates?

[@Kinetic_Animations]

@@devonkong No no no… That’s not it. LOL I’m actually getting the hang of it, but it seems a little more quirky than AE. I made a T65 X-wing Starfighter!

[@devonkong]

@@Kinetic_Animations hey that's super cool! Totally agree btw that Adobe Animate has lots of room for improvement, especially wiht little things like inverting masks
I'm glad you're getting the hang of it though!
PS. I think my reply was meant to post on a different comment, it doesn't make any sense haha

[@Kinetic_Animations]

@@devonkong XD LOL

[@Evadddd]

Thank you!!!

[@devonkong]

Thanks for watching, have a nice day ✨