First of all you will have to open up Adobe Animate. If you do not have the program yet please download it before continuing. I recommend looking online for adobe animate.
YOUR FIRST STEPS
The first steps to creating an animation are simple. Once you opened up the program you will see a blank screen. Go to the top of the screen where you see something similar to this:
To create a new file you should click on file and then new. A screen should now pop up in the centre of the screen. On the left you can choose what type of animation to make, I recommend clicking on Action Script 3.0 or HTML5 Canvas. Now, there is more information on the right of the pop up screen. The width and height of the canvas you can draw on is recorded in pixels. The automatic set up is usually a good size that does not have to be changed usually. At least I tend to stick to it because that is easiest. If you do not like it, you can always change it by right clicking later on. Lastly you can change how many frames per second you want the animation to play. The choice is between 12 and 24 frames per second. I would definitely recommend 24 frames per second because otherwise the animation will look clumsy and unprofessional. Now you now the basic set up I always go with when making a new animation.
IMPORTANT WINDOWS
After following the steps above, you should have a screen looking somewhat like the picture above. Technically you could start working now, right? But, wait! To make everything easier it is important to have certain windows open. Again, go to the left of the screen above where you should see this.
When you see this click Window and, on the pop up screen, make sure the edit bar, tools, timeline and cc library are open. I recommend having the timeline at the bottom of the screen, the tools on the left with enough width to have 3 objects next to each other, the edit bar on the right and the cc library on the right next to it. I you got everything, the screen should now look like this:
Now you can start creating your first animation.
STARTING ANIMATIONS 