Animators received unwelcome news Monday when entertainment tech giant Adobe announced that it will be discontinuing its popular 2D digital animation software Adobe Animate after more than 25 years.

For more than a quarter century, Adobe Animate, formerly known as Flash, has been a giant of 2D animation production. It facilitated TV series, indie shorts, advertising campaigns, educational media, ...

MANILA, Philippines – Adobe will no longer discontinue its 2D animation software Adobe Animate on March 1. Instead, it will be placed into an indefinite maintenance mode where Adobe says it will ...

Adobe has expanded its generative AI strategy aggressively over the past two years, integrating AI into tools such as After Effects and Adobe Express. Adobe Animate will soon become inanimate. The ...

As part of its general update to Creative Cloud, Adobe today announced the latest version of Edge Animate, its timeline-based tool for creative HTML5 animations. While this is one of the minor updates ...

Adobe is putting on hold its plan to discontinue Adobe Animate following intense backlash from its customers after it announced plans to shut down the 2D animation software amid an increased focus on ...

In a new post made to its online help desk, entertainment software giant Adobe has backtracked on its decision to remove popular digital 2D animation tool Animate (the successor of Flash) from its ...

Original story on February 3rd: After nearly 30 years of loyal service in one form or another, Adobe announced today that it will discontinue Animate, one of the company’s oldest 2D animation programs ...

Less than a day after triggering widespread backlash with its announcement to discontinue Adobe Animate (formerly known as Flash), Adobe has walked back key elements of its announcement, clarifying ...

Editor's take: Like many other software companies, Adobe is now almost exclusively focused on generative AI and other AI-based technologies. The "software-as-a-service" mantra is being pushed to ...