I feel used. I’ve been a cheerleader for #AdobeAnimate Adobe Animate since its inception… when everyone else was saying “It looks cheap,” I was insisting, “No no no… it’s all in how you USE it!” And I was right. “Flash” (as I will always call it) has been an... amazing tool. When everyone else decided that ToonBoom was the promised land, I stuck with Flash. For those who knew how to use it, you could make professional level animation with a minimal budget and a crew of one. I understand that things change, and I’ve always advised that we should never rely too heavily on any ONE program, but to abruptly and unceremoniously yank the plug this way is a slap in the face to everyone who made the software a success. There was a right way to do this and a wrong way to do it. Adobe picked the absolute worst way to do it.show more

@adobeanimate We need anti trust action against companies like adobe. They bought the competition, slowly stopped supporting it, and pulled the plug. Fuck adobe, ride the high seas

@adobeanimate > company focuses on ai this is a giant 🖕 to all the effort put in by anyone since steamboat willy

@adobeanimate So, on the bright side: -- Flash will still be available, just no longer updated or supported. -- That means it is the only animation software guaranteed to never get AI shoved into it. I think there might be some real nice silver linings here.

Now, more than ever… SUPPORT #indieanimation !!!

@adobeanimate They need to opensource it.

@adobeanimate Bonus pts is that now since toon boom is now probably the sole industry standard So many people are gonna be unable to even afford (seriously look at the prices as a college student) it basically maya for 2d This is ridiculous

@adobeanimate 100% we did not handle this well. We have made some changes to our original plans. More info here:

@adobeanimate Glad to hear it, Mike. Next time, just reach out and consult me on these things, okay? I’m right here, m’dude. You’re good kids. Thanks for reaching out. 😁

@adobeanimate Awesome animations. My time with Flash was some of the most fun I ever had. Animation, Code, Interactivity. The best. How do we start a petition to have Adobe open source it all?

@adobeanimate Adobe loves destroying things once people become heavily dependent on them.

@adobeanimate They will still let you use Adobe Animate but they will no longer provide updates or let you download it via or Adobe Creative Cloud dashboard

@adobeanimate The fact that they could continue with their AI plans and still keep this out there and make them money is wild. They choose to shut it down 😞

@adobeanimate Krita and OpenToons (used by Studio Ghibli) are viable free and open source animation software.

@adobeanimate Adobe kills tools it buys. Adobe medium was the future and they destroyed it.

@adobeanimate

@adobeanimate Thank goodness for Procreate Dreams at this point.

@adobeanimate I dont like this decision of how they just need to discontinue it for no reason I mean their own thousands of creators who use this, indie creators even industry like cartoon network use it for gumball or other projects Especially "some" animators use it from newgrounds

@adobeanimate Adobe doesnt care for the users, they never do.

@adobeanimate Please make it open source @adobe

@adobeanimate Honestly this might be it, this might be the final straw for me to get rid of my @Adobe account

@adobeanimate I know but at least you can still pirate it to keep using it past its expiration date

@adobeanimate It is where I started

@adobeanimate Flash was and still is amazing software.💯 Was very affordable to me as a poor community college student. I guess Adobe decided to dump it to sell AI animation tools?🙄

@adobeanimate YIN YANG YO! WAS MY CHILDHOOD

@adobeanimate I never put much time on these drawing apps for nuthin but doodling. Usu the features or keymapped controls r a headache to remember

@adobeanimate Holy shit I forgot this show existed.

Flash/Animate will always be an iconic software that changed the animation industry, forever!

@adobeanimate Try blender grease pencil 🙏

@adobeanimate yin yang yo mentioned....

@adobeanimate Man this cartoon was ART shame on you @Adobe

@adobeanimate Just use Clip Studio Paint

@adobeanimate You should try ToonSquid for iPad.

@adobeanimate !!!!!

@adobeanimate I still have an older version I use for certain projects, but this is still the end of an era.

@adobeanimate And their stocks are tanking for it.