Adobe Animate

About Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate is an animation software, which helps businesses design vector graphics and interactive animations for television series, websites, game development, and other projects. It enables graphic designers to create banner advertisements, animated doodles, and avatars, embed audio files, and add animations to eLearning courses and infographics.
Adobe Animate allows employees to publish content across various online platforms in multiple formats and build augmented reality (AR) animations and game environments. It offers a variety of other features including a content library, digital asset management, a drag-and-drop interface, video editing, and more. Designers can also utilize live brushes to sketch and draw characters and make them blink, talk, and walk through frame-by-frame animation functionality.
Adobe Animate helps users export animations to multiple platforms including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and more. The application lets professionals streamline multimedia authoring, advanced rigging, content sharing, and asset designing operations via a unified platform.
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- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Fun, intuitive, classic animation engine
Reviewed on 2023/11/10
Adobe Animate, a.k.a. "The IDE, formerly known as Adobe Flash", was how I cut my teeth as a...
Adobe Animate, a.k.a. "The IDE, formerly known as Adobe Flash", was how I cut my teeth as a professional game developer back in 2007. The timeline made animations and tweens very easy to understand -- I only wish the Unity animation timeline was that intuitive. Adding scripts to individual timeline objects was easy, as was adding a single master script to an entire project as a "document class" -- just imagine that your Animate project was a car, and individual parts of the car were individual objects on the timeline (wheel, engine, alternator, etc.). The document class would be "Car.as" and manage the operation of the entire car. It would have access to smaller classes like "Alternator.as", which you would attach to the individual objects inside the library of your project.
I sometimes still use the art tools of Animate when I want quick vector programming art -- it's easier to use than most programs, including Gimp, and doesn't overburden you with information or options. Of course, paying the monthly fee just for that is expensive.
If you can find a pipeline with which to use this software with your more modern game development needs, do it!
Pros
-The timeline interface is very intuitive
-The art tools are very easy to use for simple art and programmer art
-ActionScript 3 is easy to learn and a great companion language
-Keeps up with the times and exports to multiple formats
-Can connect .swfs to other .swfs like legos, if you know your ActionScript
Cons
-Fewer job opportunities that involve its use today than there were 10-15 years ago
-The tools that involve porting its output to Unity are somewhat buggy
-.swfs are basically obsolete; Animate is mainly used to help former flash programmers transition to other environments

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Software to develop crisp and interactive 2D animations
Reviewed on 2021/08/17
With Adobe Animate we are able to develop interactive ads for our clients. Such ads have helped out...
With Adobe Animate we are able to develop interactive ads for our clients. Such ads have helped out clients to gain more customer attention, yielding more business revenue.
Pros
Adobe Animate is the industry-leading 2D animation software for creating interactive ads and games for web browsers, AR, and VR devices. It comes free with an Adobe CC subscription, and the user interface is similar to other Adobe software. It features advanced rigging for characters, a rich asset panel with sounds and effects, a wide range of export formats, and great tutorials to get started.
Cons
Requires programming in ActionScript, Javascript, or HTML5 for interactive animation. Animations produced are quite resourceful. Needs to be used in conjunction with Photoshop and Illustrator for better graphics.
Reasons for Choosing Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate comes free with an Adobe CC subscription. Works very well with other Adobe software like Illustrator and Photoshop. It has an easy and familiar userinterface.Reasons for Switching to Adobe Animate
We choose Adobe Animate over other alternatives because it is easy to use and comes free with an Adobe CC subscription.
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Flash Lives on In Animate!
Reviewed on 2023/02/17
Overall, I was able to make some neat animations with Adobe Animate, but I was disappointed with...
Overall, I was able to make some neat animations with Adobe Animate, but I was disappointed with the GUI performance. Still, having Flash experience made this a welcome app to use.
Pros
Coming from a Flash background, it was easy to start animating in Adobe Animate. It's quite obvious just form at how the timeline looks and works, that this is a re-skinning of Flash. Which is fine. And Adobe Animate adds many layers to Adobe Animate, one of the coolest being motion-tracking, which allows you to act out your character on camera, and see your character move in real time! Very cool.
Cons
On my 2019 iMac, Adobe Animate does not function very well. There seems to be some kind of graphics rendering issue with the interface, and it was quite choppy and laggy to work with. This might be just my experience, but all other Adobe CC apps work just fine on my system.
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Flash was discontinued, in the extreme.Reasons for Switching to Adobe Animate
Adobe Animate has a much more familiar interface.- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Adobe Animate for Graphic Designer (who also animate)
Reviewed on 2022/11/08
I think Adobe After Effects is better than Adobe Animate. I like using it more.
I think Adobe After Effects is better than Adobe Animate. I like using it more.
Pros
It is seriously made for animation, so there are all the possibilities to work with.
Cons
I am not a big fan of animating characters in it. It just doesn't work properly for me.

- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Adobe Animate: Premium 2D animation tool
Reviewed on 2024/01/09
Adobe Animate is the perfect 2D animation tool. It runs well and while it make take some time to...
Adobe Animate is the perfect 2D animation tool. It runs well and while it make take some time to learn, it's not as confusing as other software out there.
Pros
Adobe Animate is the go-to software for professional 2D animations. It has a massive amount of features and tools. It is also useful as a graphic designer making it the perfect software to create 2D graphics and then animate them.
Cons
Its price. It is a rather expensive software so not very assessable to beginners but for professionals it's worth it.
Adobe Animate FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Adobe Animate.Q. What type of pricing plans does Adobe Animate offer?
Adobe Animate offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$20.99/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Adobe Animate is available for $20.99 per month.
Q. Who are the typical users of Adobe Animate?
Adobe Animate has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Adobe Animate support?
Adobe Animate supports the following languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Q. Does Adobe Animate support mobile devices?
Adobe Animate supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Adobe Animate integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Adobe Animate has
Q. What level of support does Adobe Animate offer?
Adobe Animate offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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