<div dir="ltr"><strike>Commons </strike>Cloud</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:23, Danny Kodicek <<a href="mailto:dragon@well-spring.co.uk">dragon@well-spring.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">(Of course old offline versions of Flash from before the Creative Commons days will still run, although you'll need a crack to get around the license authentication if you want to install them on a new machine.)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:21, Danny Kodicek <<a href="mailto:dragon@well-spring.co.uk" target="_blank">dragon@well-spring.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well, you don't have much longer! It's no longer supported as of this month and will be shuttered for good next year. They're basically saying you have a year to get all your work ported into other forms or you'll lose it.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:10, Robert Gordon <<a href="mailto:rob@article19.com" target="_blank">rob@article19.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I actually still very much have Animate in my workflow. Like many of us, my catalog went from Director to Flash to HTML5. In that last transition, I kept all of my assets in Flash (later Animate) \u2018cause most of them were vector and the texture atlas exporting was decent enough. Illustrator and Photoshop (to my knowledge) still don\u2019t natively support texture atlase export. Will probably keep Animate around a while longer\u2026<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>r o b<br><br>Robert Gordon<br>The Article 19 Group Inc.<br>514.938.8512<br><a href="mailto:rob@article19.com" target="_blank">rob@article19.com</a><br><a href="http://www.article19.com" target="_blank">www.article19.com</a><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 9:52\u202fPM Danny Kodicek <<a href="mailto:dragon@well-spring.co.uk" target="_blank">dragon@well-spring.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm guessing everyone here has seen the news that Animate (nee Flash) is being abruptly discontinued as Adobe "pivots to AI". Considering that it's still very much actively being used as an animation tool, despite the death of the SWF online, that really does seem like a very sudden and callous move, and one that I think they'll regret.<div><br></div><div>I found myself thinking about how things might have played out if Adobe hadn't decided to kill off Director. Even at the time, Flash was already in trouble - it had been seven years since Steve Jobs put the first nail in its coffin. Shockwave had already been essentially rendered useless, but Director was still a viable tool for making apps. Maybe if Adobe had put its force behind Director instead, even melded the two tools into one, they could have salvaged the situation.</div><div><br></div><div>And with Animate gone, what do Adobe really have left that's unique and justifies their exorbitant cost? Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are all still great, but there are so many cheaper rivals out there (Affinity is especially snapping at their heels). The PDF obviously isn't going anywhere any time soon, so Acrobat will still be around, but who really uses it now? Premiere is still my favourite video editor but obviously there are many more. AfterEffects is probably the only truly unique tool in the suite, but Adobe has never really known what to do with it and I'm frankly astonished it's still going.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, it's 3am over here so I need to get to bed. But I felt the need to raise a glass to our old friend.</div></div>
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