Adobe Animate symbols and functions:

Symbols are like compositions in After Effects. Symbols are super dynamic and can save a lot of time with nuanced animations. Not only that, but you don’t want to have a redraw certain assets if you can duplicate them using symbols. They’re especially helpful if you’re looking to get better at character animation.

Why would you want to do this instead of straight ahead drawing every frame? Well, here are some benefits of using symbols in Adobe Animate:

• Easily duplicate pre-built animations
• Symbols have transform properties on pre-built animations
• Symbols can loop animations
• Symbols can create a library of poses
• Symbols can replace poses for a frame using frame picker
• Symbols can reduce the need to redraw common elements
• Symbols change the starting frame