Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate
Original author(s)FutureWave
Macromedia
Developer(s)Adobe
Stable release
2024 (24.0.0) / October 10, 2023 (2023-10-10)
Written inC++, ActionScript, JavaScript
Operating systemWindows 10 v20H2 and later
macOS 11.7.7 Big Sur and later
Platformx64
Available inEnglish
TypeMultimedia
LicenseTrialware software as a service
Websiteadobe.com/products/animate.html Edit this on Wikidata

Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe.[1]

Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio video embedding, and ActionScript 3.0 scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats.[2] The developed projects also extend to applications for Android, iOS, Windows Desktop and MacOS.

It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then renamed Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It served as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, vector-based software for creating animated and interactive content. It was renamed Adobe Animate in 2016 to more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (February 9, 2016). "Adobe Launches Animate CC, Previously Known As Flash Professional". TechCrunch.
  2. ^ a b Flash is Dead, Long Live Adobe Animate CC, Benjie Moss, Dec. 1, 2015, WebDesignerDepot
  3. ^ Shankland, Stephen (December 2, 2015). "The death of Adobe's Flash is lingering, not sudden". CNet.
  4. ^ Adobe releases Flash Professional successor Animate CC, Harrison Weber, Feb 8 2016, VentureBeat As of May 15, 2022 Adobe will release an iPad Version

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