From the course: Adobe Animate CC: Creating an HTML5 Banner Ad

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Creating a new HTML Canvas project

Creating a new HTML Canvas project

- [Voiceover] Now to begin our project in the Exercise Files, let's come in here and create a folder that's at the same level as the Artwork folder. So I'll right-click and choose New Folder. We'll call this myAd. Now the reason I'm doing this is when we publish our ad from Animate, all of the assets are going to be in this myAd folder. We're gonna reference the higher-resolution artwork inside of the Artwork directory for the bitmaps here. So now that we have the myAd folder created, let's go and launch Adobe Animate. And once Animate's launched, you'll see this main splash screen here. The first thing we need to do is create a new HTML5 canvas document. In the splash screen, you can do that by coming under Create New and clicking this button here that says HTML5 Canvas. You can also go to the File menu, come down and choose New, and you can choose HTML5 Canvas in here as well. In either case, I'll come down here and click OK. That's gonna activate our project. Now I'm in the…

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