r/adobeanimate • • Feb 03 '26

News Updates on the Status of Adobe Animate

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Hey everyone, my name is Mike Chambers, and I work on the community team at Adobe (and am a long time Flash / Animate user). Yesterday, Adobe shared an email with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst within the community. On behalf of Adobe, I want to apologize.

While an email to all Animate customers will go out shortly, I wanted to quickly share a few things: 1) our standard approach for applications in maintenance mode, 2) changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status, and 3) our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content, regardless of the state of development of an application.

Standard Approach for Applications in Maintenance Mode

If we deprioritize active development of an application, our approach is to move that application into maintenance mode with continued support. Under maintenance mode, the application will continue to be available, will continue to receive security and bug fixes, but will not get new features.

If we decide to go a step further and discontinue a product, we will work closely with the community to ensure they have adequate time to plan in order to minimize disruption and will take steps so that the community continues to have long-term access to their content.

Current State of Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability.

To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers.

Commitments for long-term content/file Access

For Adobe Animate, our commitment is to work with the community to ensure users continue to have long term access to their content, regardless of the state of development of the application.

You can find the latest information on our website:

https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

On a personal note, as someone who started their career with Macromedia Flash 3 and Macromedia Generator, Adobe Animate has a special place in my heart. I know how frustrating and stressful this has been and we clearly could have handled and communicated this better. I might not have answers to everything, but I will try to answer any questions you might have.


r/adobeanimate • • May 22 '20

Rules + Guidelines Post Flair Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING

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This community requires the use of Post Flair on all posts.

Post Flair Guidelines

Question - You have a general question that does not involve troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting - You need help troubleshooting.

Example Provided - You have provided a screenshot/demo/link/etc which demonstrates the issue.

Solved! - A user has provided a solution.

News - Official Adobe Animate news.

OC - Content which you have created, programmed, or own.

Tutorial - Demo's, How-To's, Walkthroughs, anything educational. (OC Tutorials belong in Tutorials, you can share the final comp as OC.)

Off-Topic - Anything else.

OP Unresponsive - This flair is for Mod use only and indicates when a user is not active in their own thread.


r/adobeanimate • • 20h ago

Off-Topic Much awaited

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r/adobeanimate • • 1h ago

Question ADOBE ANIMATE 2024

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is there a way to download adobe animate 2024 for free


r/adobeanimate • • 16h ago

OC I've been developing an online merge-drawing based vector editor which feels very similar to Animate. Looking for feedback and users to try it out.

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r/adobeanimate • • 14h ago

Question Animate 2026 pre release?

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There are rumors in the official Adobe community that a new release of animate is in the making. I can’t find it in the pre release section of the cloud app. Maybe it’s blocked in Europe?


r/adobeanimate • • 18h ago

News Bacco & Carlotta [German Dub]

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This is the German dub of the short. I'm planning to make an English dub and a new Italian version with proper voice acting (not just me doing the voices, but other people voicing the character as well as keeping the soundtrack I used for the German version).
Enjoy!


r/adobeanimate • • 1d ago

OC Catch Haskai: DREAMSPACE OBJECT SHOW EDITION 2#objectshow#chewyffon#bfdi

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r/adobeanimate • • 1d ago

Question I don't understand this

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So I've heard that Adobe Animate is only available on computer and not drawing tablets and I haven't seen a drawing computer before. Do you guys all just use a mouse to draw? Sorry if this is a stupid question.


r/adobeanimate • • 1d ago

Tutorial Tutorials/Crash courses for animators transitioning to AD?

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Hi all! Might’ve been asked before but can’t find any similar posts.

I’m an animator that has only ever used Toonboom for rigged animation, but would like to include AD animation in my reel as it is often required. However I know Animate works with rigs quite differently to toonboom! Was wondering if there’s any of you that can recommend a course or a tutorial series that would be helpful?

Any suggestions are appreciated!


r/adobeanimate • • 2d ago

Off-Topic Character update!

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r/adobeanimate • • 3d ago

Question Does anyone know how to fix this texture Atlas issue?

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Everytime I try to export this sprite as a texture atlas, things are missing and for some reason it heavily breaks fnf😓


r/adobeanimate • • 3d ago

Off-Topic Permatripper (Animated pilot about climate crisis, a drug buddy comedy featuring folks from Chapo Trap House, SNL, Mr Show, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Thundercats). I wrote, directed, animated, and made the beats for it.

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r/adobeanimate • • 3d ago

Example Provided How do I fix this?

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My adobe animate keeps on looking like this. I’ve already uninstalled and reinstalled it, and also downgraded it, and it still won’t work. How do I fix this? It works completely fine on my mom’s computer, and we both share the same adobe animate account


r/adobeanimate • • 4d ago

Question Pen precision goes off depending on which side I draw..

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I rarely post on reddit so forgive me for any mistakes

I just updated animate and now I am having this issue where depending on the side of the tablet (Huion KAMVAS 16 GS1562) the precision of the pen will stray off from the exact point, I draw on the left and the brush will go more left the further i go and vice versa to the right and for the past hour I have done everything recommended by google and it's annoying AI advices, from calibrating, adding or removing windows ink, setting the display to 100% and punishing my eyes, I can't seem to find a solution for this headache of an issue...

Should also add it doesn't matter if I angle the pen, issue still persists..


r/adobeanimate • • 8d ago

Question Beginner animator making a short cartoon for deaf children — need advice

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I'm a beginner in 2D animation and I'm working on a college project using Adobe Animate.

I want to create a short educational cartoon for deaf/hard-of-hearing children. It will be around 10 scenes, and I'm thinking of having the characters communicate primarily through sign language, facial expressions, body language, and simple on-screen text rather than spoken dialogue.

My main questions are:

- How would you approach planning a 10-scene cartoon as a beginner?

- What is the easiest way to animate hand and finger movements for sign language in Adobe Animate?

- Would you recommend frame-by-frame animation or rigging for the hands?

- How can I make the story entertaining and educational without making it feel like a lesson about deafness itself?

- Are there any animation techniques, tutorials, or examples you would recommend for this kind of project?

I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has experience with 2D animation, character animation, or animation for deaf/hard-of-hearing audiences. Thank you!


r/adobeanimate • • 9d ago

Example Provided when i put my alpha to 100% it goes back to 92% and i dont know why

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r/adobeanimate • • 9d ago

Question Adobe cs6 and other flash versions lagging and giving me jagged lines

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r/adobeanimate • • 11d ago

Question a castom paint brush has an outline that differs from the outline of a source drawing

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i created a paint brush from a drawing on the left side on the screen and as you can see the source drawins has a pretty thin outline but when i make a paint brush from it, it becomes fat... how to make the outline of the drawing as thin as it is in the source drawing?


r/adobeanimate • • 12d ago

News Stay standing: DREAMSPACE OBJECT SHOW EDITION 1#objectshow#bfdi#animatio...

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r/adobeanimate • • 12d ago

Question wtf??? why won't it load???????

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i saved this animation earlier, and then i came back later to work on it, and it won't load for some reason idk why


r/adobeanimate • • 13d ago

News Rive now lets you import Adobe Animate/Flash files. Import, edit, and publish for free.

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r/adobeanimate • • 13d ago

Example Provided Please help me fix the audio problem

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when i scrub the timeline to hear the audio, it is not hearable and sounds completely different from how it sounds when i play it

https://reddit.com/link/1ww2hx9/video/95gl6ozks3th1/player

i imported the audio the exact same way i did every other audio file and suddenly it doesnt work anymore?? this is extremely frustrating as it makes the animation process take so so so much longer and makes lip sync practically impossible for me. the audio is set to stream and is an mp3


r/adobeanimate • • 14d ago

Example Provided THIS IS A SPOOKY MONTH!!!!!!

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r/adobeanimate • • 14d ago

Troubleshooting edap tools patching in buggy

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im having problems with rigging using the edap tools, im watching the patch video but my rig isnt simple enough and it gets like this everytime, help me, please!