future of animate

[montana321]

Just stumbled onto adobe animate recently.

Two months ago hadn't known it existed.

Do you guys see Adobe Animate being the premiere tool like Flash had been years ago?

[Joseph Labrecque · Accepted solution]

Adobe Animate has a large, dedicated team around it and the leaders are incredibly excited about its future. I am also incredibly excited about it's future

Animate CC is not going anywhere.

[montana321]

That's good to hear.

What would you recommend would be a good resource for getting up to speed for scripting for animate?  Just a basic java course?

[Colin Holgate]

Animate is a new name for Flash Professional, so most of the resources for learning Flash Pro would still be of some use.

These days there is more demand for creating HTML5 projects, which Animate can do, but then it's using JavaScript. The normal language for Animate would be ActinoScript 3. It's a lot more like Java than JavaScript is, even if the name is similar.

Joseph may well reply again, and he has done training videos for Animate he can tell you about.

[kglad]

in addition to html5 projects, i would say mobile projects for ios and android are also big selling points for animate cc.

[montana321]

Thanks guys for the insight.

[kglad]

you're welcome.

[RandomlyFish]

To clarify, Adobe re-branded Flash to Animate. So if you want to learn the program, tutorials for Adobe Flash are also valid.

[ClayUUID]

montana321  wrote

Just stumbled onto adobe animate recently.

Two months ago hadn't known it existed.

If you've ever heard of Flash animations, then yes, you knew it existed.