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Animate 2025?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 14, 2024
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Will there be no update for Animate this year?

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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.

JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

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.

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JessicaCorrea

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Nice!
I don't know how to contact them directly, so I tried the "Adobe Video" Facebook chat. I explained about Adobe's abandonment and gave them the link to this thread. Someone read it and replied that they would pass it on to the product team.
It may not come to anything, but who knows...

JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

Hey, Jessica.

You did great!

The more users who speak up, the better. I think it increases the chances of them responding and responding faster, and even reconsidering if they've already decided on the worst.

_keyframer

Community Expert

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.

Animator and content creator for Animate CC

rayek.elfin

Brainiac

Unfortunately this behaviour is exactly as expected based on past behaviour. Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD, Muse, ... All started with a deafening silence. And then after a (long) pause in communication a message that active development had been stopped, and the software would be in 'support' only mode.

Next will be a call from users begging Adobe to open source Animate and/or sell it to another party.

Which will be ignored by Adobe. More silence.

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Cristiano Alves

New Participant

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.

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JessicaCorrea

Participating Frequently

I'm also sad about this situation. Now that I've improved my animation skills with this software, I don't want to have to learn another one. Animate CC also works with programming, something I find hard to find in other software. Despite its limitations, Animate is currently my work tool, where I started in the world of 2D animation.

Please Adobe, give us answers!

_keyframer

Community Expert

You may want to really look at Rive

Animator and content creator for Animate CC

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luisannet

New Participant

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.

Joseph Labrecque

Community Expert

Muy malo para nosotros, indeed.

JoãoCésar17023019

Community Expert

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:

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Willi LopesAuthor

Known Participant

Exactly, I was expecting some update. Maybe this is a sign that Adobe is going to abandon Animate for good.

HarrowwInk

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Here's my post to help keep this thread alive.

It's times like this I wish Adobe Animate was open to development contributions from its community. But I do recognize Animate is a closed-source project and will not likely change from that. I am glad though that scripts and custom extensions can make up for some of Animate's missing features, however, there's only so much those solutions can do before limitations are hit, and they can't fix existing bugs within Animate.

I continue to hope that Adobe will recognize Animate's potential and give it more priority, or at the very least, provide more allowance for community contributions to help Animate stay competitive with other animation apps.

I rarely ever post on here but here's my two cents on the situation.

As I see it, I fear Adobe have just shelved Animate for good before we know it. Seeing how benign and half baked each new feature for the most recent versions are, and seeing how the prerelease forums have been left dormant for so long, not to mention the lack of any June updates for 2023 or 2024, I fear that Animate has essentially been discontinued, and we will most likely never see any version newer than 2024.

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