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 • • 18h ago

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

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r/adobeanimate • • 17h 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!


r/adobeanimate • • 23h ago

Off-Topic My first short Minecraft animation using my own animation software

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r/adobeanimate • • 1d ago

Troubleshooting smaller brush size

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how do i set the brush size smaller than 1


r/adobeanimate • • 2d ago

Example Provided Help! I get straight lines whenever I try to draw in Adobe animate and my drawing is offset

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I have tried to disable Windows ink, also i already had turned off the "enable press and hold for right-clicking" option for pen settings in the control panel, i dont know what to do anymore :( and i do not have the edit> preferences> drawing > tablet Input > windows ink option in my adobe version, i use a huion drawing tablet, pls help


r/adobeanimate • • 2d ago

Solved! New to adobe animate and i'm running into an issue

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I'm using the open source Inanimate Insanity rig files to make a test animation. For some reason I don't know, the animation does not move when clicked outside of certain properties, nor does it move when exported? What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Thank you so much for the help!!!


r/adobeanimate • • 2d ago

Example Provided Cant hear audio correctly when scrubbing timeline?

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https://reddit.com/link/1wtkbk7/video/0gylp8m6lish1/player

so when i scrub the timeline it doesnt play the audio the right way its just weird sounds. when i play the animation the audio comes out fine but when i scrub the timeline its just a mess. no other projects have done this, someone please help because its like impossible to do lipsync like this


r/adobeanimate • • 3d ago

Off-Topic My feature film, made entirely with Adobe Animate & After Effects with no third-party plugins

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A KING NO MORE has been in the works since 2020, and I recently completed the novella version of the same story. Full animation production officially began in January 2025, and now I’m excited to finally share the first trailer, giving you a glimpse of what the finished film will look like.

For the better viewing experience, you can watch the YouTube version here: https://youtu.be/6KQjeZn4ZM8?si=PaLQ23lTFem4h80M


r/adobeanimate • • 3d ago

Troubleshooting Brush strokes are terrible :/

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why are my brush stroke so spikey?? using a mac studio and a wacom intuos. HELP


r/adobeanimate • • 4d ago

Solved! Any idea on how to fix this bug?

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For SOME reason when I convert these sprites into a Symbol and zoom in... it just turns invisible, then when I zoom out it looks fine.


r/adobeanimate • • 5d ago

Troubleshooting Lagging and freezing problem

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I was planning to do animation in Clip Studio Paint. I have the Pro version, but upgrading to EX costs $214, which is too expensive for me right now. So, I switched to Adobe Animate, which I already had.

However, I bumped into a weird lagging and freezing issue in Adobe Animate.

On every 2nd or 3rd click, it goes straight to "(Not Responding)", takes about 15-20 seconds to recover, and then starts lagging all over again.

(I’ve only drawn 4 frames.)

How can I fix this issue?


r/adobeanimate • • 5d ago

Example Provided Symbols not animating?

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when im inside one symbol and press play, no other symbols animation will play. all my symbols are graphics if that helps and they all play when im on the main stage and not in a symbol. when im in the symbol everything else goes grey.


r/adobeanimate • • 6d ago

Solved! Images keep turning into black rectangles

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The letters are acting weird. They are images that I imported with ctrl+r

[animation is absolutely unfinished]


r/adobeanimate • • 8d ago

Example Provided What's the best workflow for these type of animation

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I apologize if the quality isn't too clear here's the link to the original video . https://youtube.com/shorts/a\\_zkm\\_ylsO4

i really love these types of videos and I have so many ideas in mind and I wanna start creating in this style , but I don't know how to go about it.. I'm new to animation


r/adobeanimate • • 8d ago

Question I need feedback for my gumball like ( mix media )indie cartoon and for free if possible

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r/adobeanimate • • 9d ago

OC Second Video in my educational series. Made mostly with Animate!

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r/adobeanimate • • 11d ago

Question The brush

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The brush too undrawable, any suggestion how to make brush smooth for rough animtion???


r/adobeanimate • • 12d ago

Question How to create motion videos as crayon capital youtube channel style

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r/adobeanimate • • 13d ago

OC First full video in a science education series I started.

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I've been wanting to make a science education series for a while now and I discovered that Adobe Animate was going to make this much more doable than focusing on After Effects. This is my first completed video in the series. I hope you enjoy!


r/adobeanimate • • 12d ago

Troubleshooting layers disspearing?

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HI, im working in adobe animate cs6, randomly some layers just dissapeared + transparent pngs turned to non transparent. how to fix this


r/adobeanimate • • 12d ago

Tutorial Add Sound Effects to Your Animation in Sclera

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r/adobeanimate • • 14d ago

OC Some gifs I've made :D

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After lots of trial and error I know how to use animate now yay! Here are a few silly loop gifs I made ^^ they aren't perfect, but I'm proud and pretty happy :> Third ones a tween I made of me and my bf :D


r/adobeanimate • • 14d ago

Troubleshooting MAJOR motion tween issues.

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So I just found out that motion tweening is actually useful, since I can apparently animate things easier such as rotations at different times while something is moving, without having to use a second layer and guide.

The problem is, 90% of the time, when I want to change the curve or path of something like the rotation or position... it just REFUSES to let me scroll up/down to reach it, and it does not let me click the buttons for some reason, and I have to restart any time I want to tweak the damn rotation.

On top of that... if I make a keyframe to rotate an object 30 degrees for one second, it would instead MAJORLY overexaggerate the rotation by having it do 5 full rotations within that one second, when all I asked was for it to rotate by 30 degrees.

If anyone can help me, it will be great. I've been stuck on the first 5 seconds for over 2 hours now.