Adobe announced back in December that it would be renaming Flash Professional as Animate CC in recognition of the fact that HTML 5 has now taken over from Flash as the main form of web animation. It has now done so, adding in a “seriously long list” of new features at the same time.
The new features range from new vector art brushes to a rotating stage whose contents scale proportionally to the size – and the company is providing live demos on its Twitch.tv channel …
Topics include Learn Adobe Animate CC, Live Game Creation and Live Music and Animation. The live broadcasts kick off today, with the schedule available at Adobe’s Twitch.tv site.
Adobe has also updated its website-creation tool Muse CC with completely custom responsive designs. Finally, Bridge has been brought back and given updates that include importing from both iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as digital cameras in OS X 10.11.
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Instead of renaming crap software that’ll likely remain crap, I’d rather see them addressing this, rather serious, bug:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/02/the-mysterious-case-of-the-undead-imac/
crap in, crap out… Who are they going to fool? What jerks. Its why I’ll never buy anything from them.
Just say “No!” to Animate
the article is a little confusing (to me).
“Adobe announced back in December that it would be renaming Flash Professional as Animate CC in recognition of the fact that HTML 5 has now taken over from Flash as the main form of web animation. It has now done so, adding in a “seriously long list” of new features at the same time.”
renaming means (to me) “crap in, crap out”.
i thought adobe “killed” flash, in favor of html5. so, adobe “killed” flash professional and now has an html5 editor called animate cc. right?
You can still use it to generate Flash animations if you want to; the renaming is in recognition of the fact that most users were generating HTML5.
Google is going to ban Flash in 2017. That’s 7 years after Steve’s Thoughts on Flash letter.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-display-ads-to-switch-to-100-html-will-ban-flash-in-2017/
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Same engine. Same problems. No iOS. Why bother?
Adobe bought Macromedia because of Flash and Dreamweaver (althoughGoLive was a pretty good app) and in the process they killed Freehand. Rather than integrating all the superior features into Illustrator (many of which are still way ahead of Illustrator), they just killed it. And now Flash is junk. Dreamweaver is a kludge, with most web authors using more intuitive tools. Thousands of people were upset over what Adobe did to Macromedia. And thousands more (mostly professionals who don’t want to pay a rental fee to maintain access to their master files (that is, their intellectual property) were upset when Adobe cancelled permanent licenses for everything after CS6. I used to be a major fan of Adobe (I’ve been using Photoshop professionally since version 2.1), now I use it without any particular happy feelings.
As for Adobe itself, they haven’t treated me like a friend for years.