Animate 2025?

[John Hepworth]

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. 

[kglad]

@John Hepworth 

rename the fla to a zip

use winrar to repair the zip

rename the repaired zip to a fla

try to open the repaired fla with animate

[kglad]

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[rayek.elfin]

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 Hepworth]

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.