Update on the status of Adobe Animate

Hello dear Preran,

I would like to share my academic opinion in conjunction with recent Adobe Animate case.
This is the only, I emphasize, the only integrated development environment in the world in which a user—or more precisely, an animation creator—is able to cover all processes involved in creating a final audiovisual animation product. For all three types of data—text, sound, and video (both static and dynamic)—Adobe Animate provides its integrated environment. A major advantage is the presence of a movie clip–type object, which offers an exceptional advantage for creating animations or films. Of essential importance is also the functionality in Animate that allows working with vector graphics in real time, and moreover without the use of Bézier curves. The ease of creating vector drawings represents a significant advantage over other animation products.
This product, Adobe Animate, possesses integrated functionalities that have no equivalent among related products in the field of animation or image processing.

The interoperability between Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects, etc., is only one small positive feature of Animate. In itself, Adobe Animate is a self-sufficient product. This is a highly valuable characteristic that saves not only time and money, but also the expertise required to work with multiple different products in other cases. In Adobe Animate, this issue is solved brilliantly.

The integration of a full set of functionalities, along with support for real-time vector drawing and illustration, is of key importance. The frame-by-frame capability for editing characters, backgrounds, and accessories is further enriched by a wide range of modification tools.

As a university lecturer, I strongly recommend the use of this product in the creation of animations. I actively promote its advantages and capabilities. I strive to expand the scope of the Adobe Animate environment as a platform for creating film and animation productions.

Adobe Animate is a brilliant product that has become a benchmark in the domain of animation—one that other developers can only dream of achieving.

Valentin

This is very mature for multibillion company. 
How many users Adobe need to acknowledge that app is profitable?

Thanks for the feedback.
And thanks for the whole Animate community!

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You really need to send out that email now! Why are you dragging that? Not everybody will be reading forums or Reddit. And please be even clearer than this about the future access. 

3 million active users and Adobe try to kill the product after trying to scare people away for years. That makes no sense business wise or otherwise. Then the stock dropped 10% and that's why the bean counters got scared and changed. 

And why don’t you send first the new e-mail communicating this? This is not serious, you are acting in an impulsive manner and losing the trust of your customers. And what about your strategy of slowly letting die applications which show useful for creatives? Honestly, better make Animate open source and in a year this program is better than Toon Boom…    

So…  Animate is end-of-life now.  And even in this backtracking message it is acknowledged that Adobe's management will discontinue the software in the not-so-far-off future?

People: do not trust Adobe management’s words here. Reading between the lines, the messaging is crystal clear. The damage is done. I would not be surprised if this wasn’t meant as a tactic to scare off those corporate partners (animation studios) and larger players still using Animate and force them to abandon Animate. Studios hate uncertainty: they will make plans now to remove Animate from their pipelines.

Then ‘backtrack’ that decisiontemporarily, sit back and observer the exodus away from Animate.

Give it two years, and only a diminished user base will care enough to make much of a racket over the final discontinuation of Animate. All according to plan, right?

It’s all in line with Adobe management's historic behaviour. And a classic gaslighting strategy: first stun your loyal users with apocalyptic messaging. Wait for the uproar. Follow it up with a so-called emphatic message “We did not mean it, and the news is not as bad as it could be, actually! We are only putting Animate on ice, and you can still use it!”

Desperate loyal users change from outraged mode to relief mode “Oh! We are so thankful you listened to us! Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!!!” 

What a disgraceful way to gaslight your users. Shameful. Utterly shameful.

So what are the chances we will still be able to import .fla into after effects? And guys, please dont mess around like that anymore. That was stressful.

Thank you for not discontinuing the adobe animate is good