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<p>What does it mean that instead of Animate, they are "pivoting to
AI"?</p>
<p>I'm currently just starting to use Claude Code. In VSCode. Do
they imagine that's pretty much how dev will proceed?</p>
<p>Have they put out any info on a more specific vision of the tools
we will be using?</p>
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<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>
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<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">
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9:52\u202fPM Danny Kodicek <<a
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<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.
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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