Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

It’s sad and just plain stupid cutting it off just like that. If you want to EOS it, fine, but do what others have done and allow us to keep using the program, even if we bought it, for years. Don’t just go “sorry, you can’t use it anymore,” and cutting off access to millions/billions of projects that people created. You give us the option to use older versions of other programs. Give us that. Allow us to keep using it after EOS, to allow artists and creators have access to their projects. You doing this is most likely going to destroy the next 1million dollar idea. Giving the option of “go use the other programs that might give you the same power as animate,” is just a slap in the face. That is like “oh we are cutting off photoshop, so go use illustrator as it has some of the same tools.” NO. You killed off flash because of issues that it had, then rebranded the program that created it as Animate, to allow us to keep making shows, and animations. Doing it is just another slap in the face.  

I guess the “New Age for Animation,” does not exist anymore in your eyes. 

This is insane. I literally make my living using Adobe Animate. I use it EVERY DAY. I have been using it since it was Macromedia Flash, so you can guess how many .fla files I have stored. That these will all be inaccessible in a year is just… I don’t know. Insane.

ADOBE, LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS.  DO NOT END THIS PRODUCT.

Can you put yourself in the shoes of your customers, who use this product for their livelihood, the thing that feeds their families?

 

Well, this seems like a huge slap in the face to thousands of artists. Horribly disappointed in Adobe for making this decision. 

Hi, Really sad news, as i work nearly every day with Animate. 
Does shutting down mean also that the hosted library (“https://code.createjs.com/1.0.0/createjs.min.js”) will cease to exist and HTML5 ads relying on that javascript class are going to be broken?
Thanks.

The specialised press has already made its mark.

3 million Animate users!!!!! 3 million!!!!!

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-animate-software-sunset-258612.html

Users need to get united. Best place to start is to sign the petition. Save Animate

I never used Adobe Animate, but this is the saddest announcement ever! Shutting Animate down forever over AI? REALLY UNJUST AND UNFAIR!!!! MAKE ADOBE SUPPORT ANIMATE FOREVER! DOWN WITH AI!!!!!!!! DON’T CANCEL ANIMATE FOREVER!! DON’T DO IT! Please! Won’t somebody think of the Adobe animators??!?! JUST MAKE IT MORE AVAILABLE!!!! 😡

Shutting down Animate and cutting off users from decades worth of work, while simultaneously focusing on anti-artist AI technology, is incredibly disrespectful to your users. Make the software open-source if you’re not going to do the work yourself.

I wish Adobe had continued to support Animate and make it into a robust competitor to Toon Boom and Moho rather than let it dwindle and then kill it. Animate is a great piece of software with a miraculously simple interface and there’s nothing quite like it. Why not take that great legacy and modernize it? Why buy it only to sweep it under the rug? I’d rather have Animate than Firefly.