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edwards92372237
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April 4, 2025
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Animate bugs: Fluid Brush fill error, Wacom ExpressKeys moving stage

  • April 4, 2025
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I'm using Animate v 24.0.8 and running a 128 GB Mac Studio with an M2 Ultra chip. I'm interfacing using a Wacom Cintiq 22HD. After updating the OS to Sequuoia 15.3.2, Animate started exhibiting several bugs that are a huge interruption to a fast and smooth working experience...

 

Fluid Brush fill error: While using the Fluid Brush, occasionally creating a loop or closed line will cause the closed area to be filled. The frequency fluxuates, but seems to hover around every 10th looping line will trigger this error.

 

Cintiq ExpressKeys move Animate's stage: Using the keyboard shortcut F6 to Insert Keyframe and F8 to Convert to Symbol work completely normally. However, using F6 or F8 via the Cintiq ExpressKeys cause Animate's stage to suddenly pan downward. The suddenly jump in stage position happens with every ExpressKey press, causing the stage to jump every time the ExpressKey is pressed.

 

Until the bugs are fixed, I've downgraded to Animate 2023. The 2023 version of Animate still suffers from the ExpressKey stage-jumping error, but the Fluid Brush fill error doesn't occur in that earlier version.

 

I work at Illumination as a Head of Story. I was the Head of Story on The Super Mario Bros. Movie and used Adobe Animate for all my storyboards for that film. I've been using Animate for 20 years and still believe in the product, and I actually think there is a place at the table for Animate to be a bigger part of the animation industry's pipeline in general. I'd love to advocate for more use of Animate within Illumination's pipeline and elsewhere, but with these current issues affecting my workflow so much, I can't in good conscience recommend it to any of my teammembers until they're resolved.

 

Adobe, are there plans to fix these bugs for Sequoia?

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n. tilcheff
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April 4, 2025

Have you looked for similar threads?

It seems that there are a lot of compatibility issues with the latest MacOS.

 

If you read this thread you will realize that no one at Adobe listens to or speaks with Animate users any more:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/animate-2025/td-p/14914790

 

For the short term your best option seems to be to downgrade your MacOS.

If you rely on legacy software for your professional work stay away from exotic hardware and operating systems and use Windows on Intel, where even Flash 8 and all of CS work well to this day.

 

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation