Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

Photoshop is replaceable. there’s plenty of other image editors, I do like photoshop but I’ll make do with gimp if pushed.
premiere and audition too, plenty of good options, even completely free ones for both.  I already own a bunch of them and rarely use audition anyways. vegas is somehow far more stable now than premiere, which is a shocking twist based on history being the opposite for decades before.
 

flash IS the only thing keeping me on creative cloud. if I cannot open my local fla files after the end of the support period, I will no longer be subscribed to creative cloud. same for a team of three dozen individuals with active cc subs I’m a part of, we NEED flash/animate whatever you want to call it. 

As a working animator who relies on Adobe Animate to make a living, this is a huge blow to your user base.  Adobe Animate is the only reason I subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, and I find this extremely short sighted.  Every animation studio that I’ve worked for relies on this software, and has a huge amount of time, effort, and resources invested in reuse libraries in the FLA format - that would be non-transferrable to any other software program.  I genuinely ask you to rethink this decision, for the good of your users, and for the fact that ending such a vital tool is a great way to alienate your entire user base away from ever using any Adobe product ever again.

The main reason we have been using the creative cloud is Adobe Animate CC. From the overall creative cloud usage, 95%is for Animate CC. Is there a way of getting the software offline? Can we download adobe anime cc, I believe we can use it without Adobe support.

I am a current subscriber to the Adobe Creative Suite, but I started with Flash back in 2000.

Adobe Animate is one of the few irreplaceable apps that you have. There are alternatives for Photoshop, video editing, effects editing… but vector-based animation in the way that Adobe Animate handles it? It’s been vital to my workflow for a long, long time.

If Animate gets cancelled, so does my subscription. Period. To say that I won’t even be able to open my working files despite the app clearly still being able to do so is beyond infuriating.

Not much notice there Adobe. Also as someone who has been animating professionally in flash/Adobe animate since 2013, you’re recommending using after effects to animate in as an alternative program? Do you know anything about animation? They do completely different types of animation. The animation industry  has had such a rough few years. This is honestly the cherry on the cake. I hope Adobe pops with the AI bubble. Disgusting behaviour. Will be leaving Adobe as soon as animate does.

Hi Mohit and the community.
I understand that Animate hasn’t been a focus for Adobe and the lack of updates to Create JS seem a sign of that, however, the lack of updates also suggest that it’s a very stable solution. Grant Skinner and the Adobe team should be very proud of the long run they have had and the many creatives they have empowered. From 1997 I was a Flash developer then I became an Animate developer, so for me this is very sad news. 

At least 30 people on my team still use Adobe Animate every day. So I very much still need Adobe Animate, however, I must accept it will no longer be available. 

So what can I do... Well I will build a replacement.
When Chrome was introducing the sandbox we were considering building a replacement, now it seems we must.
Mohit, please reach out via my Adobe Account details if Adobe would like to collaborate and to all in the community, Please comment so I can understand the demand better.

Thanks  

Dumb move. There’s nothing else like Animate

There really are no viable alternative. All our resources for our 2d games are exported from Animate using our own export flow. 
For the last 20 years i have used the program and not expected any new  features. Just that the program exists and can load and export my files.
Adobe should be ashamed!! 

Adobe does not care about its users. I am seriously considering going to the dark web and finding a working crack so i at least can continue working until i can find a viable alternative.

I hope Adobe reply to this soon.

But I will add… Dreamweaver has not been developed/updated for a long time - but you can still use it, just no cloud support.

We can hope this is the same plan for Animate.