Re: Animate 2025?

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August 12, 2025
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august 2025

just had a bad crash and then find this thread

anyone have experience repairing corrupted files? it's "just" data, so there must be ways to

scrape out / examine it relatively diredtly

while genai is coming for animators, there's something super hand made bespoke about animate i love.

i'm always unsure if i should do projects in ae or blender; but i keep coming back to animate

loves me some vector graphics.

rayek.elfin

Legend

OpenToonz and Tahoma2D (an offshoot of OpenToonz) have a similar feel to Animate. Or ToonBoom. These all support vector graphics based animation and the same frame-by-frame timeline approach. AE and Blender feel very different in regard to their timelines.

OpenToonz/Tahoma2D are open source and free, and the way projects are organized it is almost impossible to lose your entire animation because it splits an animation project into discrete files. And therefore supports proper versioning with SVN or Git as well. OpenToonz and Tahoma2D also share a much broader animation and compositing feature toolset than Animate.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/

https://tahoma2d.org/

John HepworthAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks I will check those out...I quite like Animate, and it's a heck of a time investment to have gotten to my (limited) skills with it, but Adobe in general is wearing me out so I am looking for alternatives.