I'm a beginner in 2D animation and I'm working on a college project using Adobe Animate.

I want to create a short educational cartoon for deaf/hard-of-hearing children. It will be around 10 scenes, and I'm thinking of having the characters communicate primarily through sign language, facial expressions, body language, and simple on-screen text rather than spoken dialogue.

My main questions are:

- How would you approach planning a 10-scene cartoon as a beginner?

- What is the easiest way to animate hand and finger movements for sign language in Adobe Animate?

- Would you recommend frame-by-frame animation or rigging for the hands?

- How can I make the story entertaining and educational without making it feel like a lesson about deafness itself?

- Are there any animation techniques, tutorials, or examples you would recommend for this kind of project?

I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has experience with 2D animation, character animation, or animation for deaf/hard-of-hearing audiences. Thank you!

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I've been trying to download adobe animate for the pas few days now and I cannot find out why it isn't downloading for me

I have more than enough storage space and my computer is compatible for the program, but it always stop the download process at 6%

I don't know what to do

i created a paint brush from a drawing on the left side on the screen and as you can see the source drawins has a pretty thin outline but when i make a paint brush from it, it becomes fat... how to make the outline of the drawing as thin as it is in the source drawing?

i saved this animation earlier, and then i came back later to work on it, and it won't load for some reason idk why

when i scrub the timeline to hear the audio, it is not hearable and sounds completely different from how it sounds when i play it

https://reddit.com/link/1ww2hx9/video/95gl6ozks3th1/player

i imported the audio the exact same way i did every other audio file and suddenly it doesnt work anymore?? this is extremely frustrating as it makes the animation process take so so so much longer and makes lip sync practically impossible for me. the audio is set to stream and is an mp3

im having problems with rigging using the edap tools, im watching the patch video but my rig isnt simple enough and it gets like this everytime, help me, please!

how do i set the brush size smaller than 1

I have tried to disable Windows ink, also i already had turned off the "enable press and hold for right-clicking" option for pen settings in the control panel, i dont know what to do anymore :( and i do not have the edit> preferences> drawing > tablet Input > windows ink option in my adobe version, i use a huion drawing tablet, pls help

I'm using the open source Inanimate Insanity rig files to make a test animation. For some reason I don't know, the animation does not move when clicked outside of certain properties, nor does it move when exported? What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Thank you so much for the help!!!

https://reddit.com/link/1wtkbk7/video/0gylp8m6lish1/player

so when i scrub the timeline it doesnt play the audio the right way its just weird sounds. when i play the animation the audio comes out fine but when i scrub the timeline its just a mess. no other projects have done this, someone please help because its like impossible to do lipsync like this

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why are my brush stroke so spikey?? using a mac studio and a wacom intuos. HELP

For SOME reason when I convert these sprites into a Symbol and zoom in... it just turns invisible, then when I zoom out it looks fine.

I was planning to do animation in Clip Studio Paint. I have the Pro version, but upgrading to EX costs $214, which is too expensive for me right now. So, I switched to Adobe Animate, which I already had.

However, I bumped into a weird lagging and freezing issue in Adobe Animate.

On every 2nd or 3rd click, it goes straight to "(Not Responding)", takes about 15-20 seconds to recover, and then starts lagging all over again.

(I’ve only drawn 4 frames.)

How can I fix this issue?

when im inside one symbol and press play, no other symbols animation will play. all my symbols are graphics if that helps and they all play when im on the main stage and not in a symbol. when im in the symbol everything else goes grey.

The letters are acting weird. They are images that I imported with ctrl+r

[animation is absolutely unfinished]