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Adobe Animate is a fantastic versatile solution if you want to create animations for all kinds of content. But it is way more than just a plain animation designer. You can create behavior, add responsiveness, integrate audio and video, script, and publish on all your social media and platforms. You will see that Adobe Animate is a serious actor in the animation market now.

What is Adobe Animate?

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

Even if it may seem simple at first glance, Adobe Animate's primary purpose is to design vector graphics and animations for online animation, websites, web apps, games, commercials, and other content. It is really versatile, and the possibilities are infinite if you combine it with other Adobe solutions like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.

What are the key features of Adobe Animate?

Interactive and alive: Thanks to Fresco live brushes, you can blend and bloom to draw and sketch more expressive characters (make them walk, talk, blink, jump, etc.), create responding content like banners (so you can interact with your mouse, movement, touch, clicks, etc.), and more.
Platform agnostic: No longer waste time adapting your content to all your different audiences as you can now export your creations on desktop, mobile, and TV through HTML5 Canvas, Flash/Adobe AIR, WebGL, or custom ones like SVG. Furthermore, it supports raster graphics, rich text, and audio and video embedding.

Build the logic: Thanks to its built-in engine handling events and pieces of code, you can add all kinds of actions without any skill in programming. And because you can also design environments and integrate audio, you can build your own games, create augmented reality experiences, and directly code inside the app.

Shape envelopes and bones: You have complete control over the shapes and joints of your animations. Indeed, thanks to the handy Bezier handles, you can easily and smoothly deform the edges of vectors or bitmaps. Also, your characters can be composed of bones you can later warp and move just as easily.
Share and publish: Click on a simple button to share your compositions to social media in the outputs you want. Adobe Animate now supports Twitter, YouTube, video, and animated GIFs.

How to use Adobe Animate?

Adobe has created many different valuable resources so you can progressively learn how to use Adobe Animate. Consult the Get Started section as well as all the other tutorials for beginner and experienced users.

Is Adobe Animate free?

We offer you a free 7-day trial version of Adobe Animate. Then, if you want to keep using it, you can purchase one of the available plans from the official website.