Update on the status of Adobe Animate

Although After Effects is more powerful, Animate is such a great animation app for vector based animation. Many certain animation projects can be done in Animate much more efficient than After Effects. 

I’ve been working with adobe products since 1997. But for more than 10 years nothing really new except driving existing customers or potentially new ones to other solutions : figma, davinci, etc… New updates and products are so poor in terms of functionnality (i.e the poor ia you invested in, or the 3d solutions). You’ve been killing your potential step by step. This decision is one more step backward. Compare yourself to Unreal, Da Vinci, open source, Google fonts, stock resources, etc...→ The benefits from your products (from A.E to Photoshop, via illustrator) are vanishing, facing an increasing price and loss of time. Example given : the useless audio treatment in Premiere, no improvement in vector and anchor points management & alignment in AE. I use Animate in movies industry, while it has not being really improved for a long time it’s still one of the best way for building apps in this department, especially with the integration of Illustrator and the ability to add programming. But IT IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. Should this happen, I’ll definitely spare my CC subscription.

As a blender user, i thank adobe for removing one of the lastreasons to avoid switching! And thank you for mentioning using different tools!

Don't even think about closing Animate! This is the only good program from Adobe! If you close it, why do people need Adobe at all?

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.