Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/adobe-animate-is-shutting-down-as-company-focuses-on-ai/

Adobe Animate will be discontinued on March 1, 2026, as Adobe shifts its focus to AI.

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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Good thing Blender Grease Pencil is a thing then. That it happens to be free and cross-platform is rather nice too.

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tonytins@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
RIP Animate, formally Flash Pro. Was my tool of choice in the mid-2000s.

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- panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh man, Flash was the best!
  
  I made movies, commercials, websites, and games, all with one app.
  
  Adobe really stewarded it into the ground though.
  
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  - tonytins@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Memories. The moment Adobe brought it, I stuck to the last version made by Macromedia made for as long as I could.
    
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Cut my programing teeth making games about flying poop in the late 90s/early 00s
    
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Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The platform My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was animated on.

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_ed@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Subscriptions suck. Have always sucked.

I note one of the recommendations from the article is still drumroll subscription based while the other one is a one time purchase.

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Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well atleast less Adobe Monopoly

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etherphon@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I guess Adobe will be the tools of corposlop and the rest of us will have to find other stuff to use, luckily I started that process some time ago. It would be sweet if Red Giant and BorisFX ported their video FX to Linux tho.

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