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This article is about the application/animation software. For the multimedia software platform, see Adobe Flash. For the player, see Adobe Flash Player.
Not to be confused with Adobe Edge Animate.

Adobe Animate
Original author(s)FutureWave
Macromedia
Developer(s)Adobe Inc.
Stable release
2024 (24.0.0) / October 10, 2023; 14 months ago (2023-10-10)
Written inC++, ActionScript, JavaScript
Operating systemWindows 10 v20H2 and later
macOS 11.7.7 Big Sur and later
Platformx64
Available inEnglish
TypeMultimedia
LicenseTrialware software as a service
Websiteadobe.com/products/animate.html Edit this on Wikidata

Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc.[1]

Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio video embedding, and ActionScript 3.0 scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats.[2] The developed projects also extend to applications for Android, iOS, Windows Desktop and MacOS.

It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then renamed Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It served as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, vector-based software for creating animated and interactive content. It was renamed Adobe Animate in 2016 to more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5.[2][3][4]

History

Main article: Adobe Flash § History

The first version of Adobe Flash/Adobe Animate was FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. With the implosion of the pen-oriented operating systems, it was ported to Microsoft Windows as well as Apple Inc.'s Classic Mac OS. In 1995, the company decided to add animation abilities to their product and to create a vector-based animation platform for World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator was created. (At that time, the only way to deploy such animations on the web was through the use of Java.) The FutureSplash animation technology was used on websites such as MSN, The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney Company.[5][6]

In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and rebranded the product as Macromedia Flash, a brand name that continued for 8 major versions. Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in 2005, and re-branded the product Adobe Flash Professional to distinguish it from the player, Adobe Flash Player. It was included as part of the Creative Suite of products from CS3 to CS6, until Adobe phased out the Creative Suite lineup in favor of Creative Cloud (CC).[7]

On December 1, 2015, Adobe announced that the program would be renamed Adobe Animate on its next major update. The move comes as part of an effort to disassociate the program from Adobe Flash Player, acknowledging its increased use for authoring HTML5 and video content, and an effort to begin discouraging the use of Flash Player in favor of web standards-based solutions.[8] The first version under the new name was released February 8, 2016.[1] Although Adobe Animate is moving towards web-standard file formats, Flash (.swf) and Air (.air) formats are still officially supported.[9] On June 16, 2020, as part of Adobe's 'Evolving Brand Identity', Adobe Animate unveiled a complete redesign of its logo in which, for the first time in almost 20 years, the main color was changed—from red to purple.


Versions

Release Year Icon Description
Adobe Animate CC 2015 (15.1) 2016 Adobe Animate CC 2015 (15.1) was released on February 8, 2016, shifts away from the "Flash" branding signifying the ability to animate content and publish to video, HTML5 and Flash. It includes tagged color swatches, Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries, vector art brushes, 360° rotatable stage and stage resizing with proportional content scaling, export video up to 4K resolution (for HiDPI or Retina Displays), HTML5 Canvas improvements (TypeKit support, text as outlines, custom templates).[1][10]
Adobe Animate CC 2015 (15.2) 2016 Adobe Animate CC 2015 (15.2) was released on June 20, 2016. Introduces the frame picker, layer opacity, expanded vector art brushes (pattern brushes, vector brush smoothing and tiling), improved web publishing options, custom colored onion skinning, advanced PSD and AI import options, HTML5 Canvas improvements (support for HiDPI and Retina Displays), updated Adobe Stock libraries panel. Latest Flash Player (version 21), AIR SDK (version 21).

A sub-release was launched in August (15.2.1) adding Google Fonts support for HTML5 Canvas, brush size customization to up to 200 instead of the original 8 and important bug fixes.[11][12]

Adobe Animate CC 2017 (16) 2016 Adobe Animate CC 2017 was released in November 2016. Introduces a built-in camera tool, easing presets, stage clipping and stage outline, SWF archive format for layered file support in After Effects, pressure and tilt support for vector art brushes, timeline enhancements (display time along with frame numbers, extend or reduce the time for a selected frame span, scale frame span with frames per second (fps)), reusable components in HTML5 Canvas. Latest Flash Player (version 25), AIR SDK (version 25).[13][14]
Adobe Animate CC 2018 (18) 2017 Adobe Animate CC 2018 was released in October, 2017. Introduces advanced layers, layer depth, camera improvements, timeline improvements (animation scrubbing on stage, time-based markers, tween span conversion to 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s or custom from the contextual menu), actions code wizard for HTML5 canvas, component parameters panel, conversion to other document types (WebGL, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR (Desktop, Android, iOS)), texture atlas enhancements (support for color effects and masks in Unity), enhanced ease presets (property-wide custom easing)[15][16]
Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19) 2018 Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19.0) was released in October, 2018, features a new home screen, layer parenting, auto-lipsync, layer effects, VR authoring and publishing (Beta), vector and bitmap deformations with the asset warp tool, texture publishing for HTML5 canvas, improved integration with After Effects, export to WebGL-glTF formats (standard and extended).[17]
Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19.1) 2018 Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19.1) was released in December, 2018, features pressure / tilt support for the eraser tool, paint bucket drag fill, SVG export improvements, Adobe Fonts support (formerly Typekit).[18]
Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19.2) 2019 Adobe Animate CC 2019 (19.2) was released in April, 2019, features layer blend modes, Google AMPHTML Ad support (Beta), frame picker enhancements (pin symbol), brush-eraser sync settings, texture atlas enhancements (set resolution, optimize dimensions, export to multiple sprites and j.son file optimizations), faster save times, audio effects (right / left channel settings, fade in / out, fade to right / left, custom) enhanced asset warping and image handling improvements.[19]
Adobe Animate 2020 (20.0) 2019 Adobe Animate 2020 (20.0) was released in November, 2019, features a redesigned user interface, basic and expert workspaces, enhanced properties panel (tool, object, frame and doc tabs), customizable toolbar, advanced settings for onion skinning, timeline layer coloring, new GPU fluid brush, integrated hands-on tutorial, enhanced video export with Adobe Media Encoder, faster save times and timeline play.[20]
Adobe Animate 2020 (20.0.3) 2020 Adobe Animate 2020 (20.0.3) was released in April, 2020, features stream/split audio and blend modes support for HTML5 Canvas, Windows Ink support (Beta) and custom range video export.[21]
Adobe Animate 2020 (20.5) 2020 Adobe Animate 2020 (20.5) was released in June, 2020, features auto-keyframe option, introduction of the assets panel, quick social share, hands-on tutorial creator and selective texture publishing.[22]
Adobe Animate 2021 (21.0) 2021 Adobe Animate 2021 (21.0) was released in October, 2020, adds quick publishing for video, animated GIF and HTML5 canvas formats, improved assets panel (default and custom tabs), timeline and symbol enhancements (customizable timeline tools, convert layers to symbol and break apart symbol options via the context menu, reverse play and loop support for graphic symbols and new copy-paste tween options), advanced rigging (Beta), Windows Ink support, bone tool enhancements (leaf-node constraints and split / merge armature spans), latest Flash Player (version 32), AIR SDK (version 32).[23]
Adobe Animate 2021 (21.0.7) 2021 Adobe Animate 2021 (21.0.7) was released in June, 2021, features an enhanced Paint Fills Only brush mode, last frame looping option for graphic symbols and important bug fixes.[24]
Adobe Animate 2022 (22.0) 2021 Adobe Animate 2022 (22.0) was released in October, 2021, adding scale, skew and flip propagation to layer parenting.[25]
Adobe Animate 2022 (22.0.2) 2021 Adobe Animate 2022 (22.0.2) was released in December, 2021, features an improved asset warp tool with bone rigging capabilities. Additions include soft and hard bones, freeze joints, a mesh density slider, warp background processing and minor bug fixes.[25]
Adobe Animate 2023 (23.0) 2022 Adobe Animate 2023 (23.0) was released in October, 2022, adds rig edit mode, flexi bone and envelope deformations to the asset warp tool. Warp objects can now be managed from the library panel.[26]
Adobe Animate 2024 (24.0) 2023 Adobe Animate 2024 (24.0) was released in October, 2023, adds native Apple Silicon support, warped asset pose reset, a more compact user interface and important bug fixes[27]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b Flash is Dead, Long Live Adobe Animate CC, Benjie Moss, Dec. 1, 2015, WebDesignerDepot
  3. ^ Shankland, Stephen (2 December 2015). "The death of Adobe's Flash is lingering, not sudden". CNet.
  4. ^ Adobe releases Flash Professional successor Animate CC, Harrison Weber, Feb 8 2016, VentureBeat As of May 15, 2022 Adobe will release an iPad Version
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  17. ^ "What's new and changed in the October 2018 release of Animate (version 19.0)". helpx.adobe.com. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
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