Animate 2025?

Flash petering out like this is pretty much the exact way I expected it to die, and yet I still find myself disappointed.

And I mean Flash. Despite the attempted rebrand, this program was born Flash and has died Flash. I don't know a single animator who doesn't simply refer to it as Flash coloquially. If they had wanted to be known as Adobe Animate, they would have treated the rebrand as a time to grow, come up with new ideas, or at least crib the ideas off of their competitors. 

It's honestly hard to believe how little Flash adapted to the needs of studios and freelancers, despite years of requests. Even just getting a program that doesn't crash constantly has been, apparently, too great a request. There are people using Flash CS6-- 12 year old software-- because it runs more stable for them than more recent versions, and extremely little of actual value has been added in those 12 years.

Flash isn't dying now, it died years ago, and it's been a shambling corpse ever since. It's been ages since Toon Boom launched their software, and, I dunno, Adobe probably saw the writing on the wall then and there. Rather than work to compete, they ceded their top spot, and kept charging a monthly subscription for the few who had yet to make the jump. Which includes me. I wanted Adobe to adapt and make this program better. And I'm sure there are people within Adobe who also wanted the program to be better, to try new things, who were completely ignored by management. 

In the end this is all part of a larger problem. Adobe's leadership has made it clear that they are not going to be making programs for artists. Their shift towards generative AI tools, and their recent, baffling comments about their customer base, have made this quite clear. Their programs will not serve artists, it'll serve 'idea guy' middlemen who are like, really smart and creative, they just, uh, don't like, know how to draw, y'know? Drawing is hard, impossible to learn! It's only for people who are naturally talented elites! And who needs to draw when we've got Firefly, right? Surely what will keep Adobe afloat is if Creative Suite is used by fewer people, right?

Right?

I think Adobe will only supporting generative ai feature to their software.  all of major updates are just gen ai.

They even said that "if you won't use gen ai, you will fail and left behind"

I can't see any major updates that really useful for artists, and don't think they care about users like us but money 😕😕

Agree with @default4mciqkld69iv 

My company is using PS/AI/AN for creating ads. Many other companies in my country have the same workflow.

I'm also using AN for creating .swf files for Ruffle.

Looking into this, we can see there's something wrong with Adobe. User's voices don't matter anymore. They forgot that they're making application for users.

Sadly. I am just because of adobe animate and am renewing my CC subscription.
If there are no updates to animate, then there is no point in all other programs. I don’t use After Effects, but other programs have a bunch of alternatives, not only paid but also free.

Hi, everyone.

A small update.

I have asked the team and I was told to wait for an answer on this situation.

So let's wait for now.

there's so much I could say - but I will only add, I'm not only disapointed to see Animate whither away in the dark cold corner of Adobe, but moreso the way the team quietly abandoned us in the process. They shut the lights off and closed the door while we're still in the room and won't talk to us anymore. 

I've moved on but what a master class on how to not to treat your most devoted users.

I'm really sad about this lack of updates for Animate. It's been my software of choice for creating animations since it was Macromedia Flash. I hope Adobe is not planning to abandon it, once there are a lot of creators that still use Animate.

Nosotros estamos esperando una actualización con muchas ganas, llevamos usando Animate desde hace muchos años (Antes Flash), si no se actualiza, será muy malo para nosotros. We are looking forward to an update, we have been using Animate for many years (previously Flash), if it is not updated, it will be very bad for us.

Hi.

It should be today because Adobe usually updates the Creative Cloud apps in the first day of Adobe MAX.

Other softwares already have their updates available: