Update on the status of Adobe Animate

I didn’t receive the first email. I learned the news from Moho Animation rightfully taking up the baton. The fact that you are continuing it was news I happened upon while checking if there are alternatives planned. This should be an email making it absolutely clear, but don’t I feel like a valued customer that you don’t communicate any of this to me. This comes a few months after I resubscribed to another year. I’d have to wait till November to bow out. I guess I should take this as a reminder to look for alternatives.

Lost some sleep over that one, Animate is extremely valuable to our workflow…..if that were to go away we would certainly drop the entire Adobe suite subscription and find alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop. Animate is the one fully unique program that is difficult to replace. Should Adobe change it’s mind and go back to letting Animate die, does anyone have suggestions on potential replacements? We do not use it for animation, but its library and movie clip format as well as it’s snapping and line/shape consolidation seems difficult to find alternatives to in order to create our content (exporting SVG format with id’s on movie clips)

Do you suggest that we change our animation creation to AfterEffects? And will Character Animator stay in development?

I didn’t know about any of this until the email went out today.. I’m currently using Animate for my elective in school so I’m happy it won’t shut down :)😊

I think it's important for you to understand just how stressful your original email was.

I have used Animate professionally for nearly 20 years and until recently was a proud supporter of Adobe Creative cloud as I felt it offered great value for money. Animate is a fantastic piece of software and is really useful for all kind of animation styles, it's something I learnt in college and use every day.
 

For a company that forced it's users to switch to a monthly subscription to turn around and tell it's users they are not only removing the software, but also say that they will no longer be able to open their old files is astonishingly heartless and to be honest has completely ruined my impression of Adobe as a company going forward. 

I am now beginning the process of changing my professional practice and will ensure I no longer need to use Adobe products in the future.
I'm sure that I was not the only who lost sleep over that announcement. 

I always wondered if Adobe ever really understood how creatives use Animate and your original email clearly proves my suspicions.

While I am pleased that you have changed your stance on the future of Animate, if you truly do value your customers going forward, rather than removing Animate from your Creative Cloud I would strongly suggest you make the software open source or sell it to another software company, ensuring people can continue to use and support a really great animation software.
It seems like this would be a move that would be greatly apricated from all the creatives who have until recently been happy to use Adobe products.

You need to send out that email now. What are you waiting for? A lot of people still don't know about the change. And be clearer about the future. 

I want to say….

It’s good and very much appreciated of Adobe to have listened to its customers - and not just stuck to a decision despite the backlash.

Adobe could have easily just stuck to what it said and removed Animate - threats of people leaving CC subs would not be enough.

I think it shows that Adobe is listening to its customers.

And despite now being in maintenance mode - I’ll continue with my cc sub while Animate is still the ONLY choice for html5 canvas app production.

Hello Adobe.

I remember when you were bidding to buy Macromedia. You said something them like: “We can’t let the big companies (Micorsoft) win! They can’t have everything!” 

Keep that spirit alive, dear Adobe. Instead of taking away tools for artists, ADD tools! Watch the world become more inspired, alive, and beautiful!

And why not make Animate open source and free? You would still own it, and you could use it as research for bettering your payed-for apps. By letting outside people who are interested in doing something for the sake of doing it, you’re bringing in new ideas. It’s healthy for you. Your developers (who are artists as well) can have a fresh place to get ideas from. That would be a bold move for Adobe and your customers would cheer you for it :)

Remember that you’re providing tools for artists. Remember where you came from. <3

I was very upset about your attitude toward Adobe animate in your email to all of us.  I have been teaching Flash,Animate a UCLA, Santa Monica College, and Cal State La for the last 20 something years.  In addition, I have thousands and thousands of assets in Animate for projects I have built.  What a  blow to people like me and my students who have built so many projects with this stellar program.  I understand that you have shiny new tools and programs to play with.  That being said there is no reason that you can’t work on this project too.   I don’t think that you all thought this through.  I was happy that you are pulling back your decision, but I don’t know if you understand how valuable this program is for creating rapid fire animated content.   Shame on you all.  But I am glad you have reconsidered.  My hope is that you take some of your millions of dollars that we pay you every year and continue to support and grow this program.   You are wrong to let it go.

By the way, you are right Adobe, there are new ‘platforms’ and ‘paradigms’ you want to adapt to. Now that you mention it, one of these new paradigms are cases as Blender, Godot, Krita… you know, very well stablished Open Source projects in their respective industries. So, please Adobe, liberate Animate and embrace new times...