Adobe Animate
Animate almost anything.
Design interactive animations for games, TV series, and the web. Give life to your drawings and your banners. Create animated doodles and avatars. And add action to infographics and e-learning content. With Animate you can quickly publish to multiple platforms in almost any format, as well as reach viewers on any screen. It is only available in Creative Cloud.
Creative Cloud is a platform for creativity that connects users, content, applications, services, hardware, learning content, and the community. It gives business customers the creative tools and services they need to collaborate and create their best work, while making managing software fast, easy and flexible.
Principal functions
- Let the game begin: Create interactive web and mobile content for video games and advertisements using powerful illustration and animation tools. Create gaming environments, design splash screens, and integrate audio. Share your animations as augmented reality experiences. All asset design and coding can be done within Animate.
- Create characters that come to life: Sketch and draw more expressive characters with powerful Adobe Fresco brushes that blend and render authentically. Make your characters blink, talk and walk with easy frame-by-frame animations. And create interactive web banners that respond to user actions, such as hovering, tapping, or clicking the mouse.
- Post on any platform: Reach your viewers' desktops, mobile devices, and televisions by exporting animations to various platforms, such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash / Adobe AIR, and custom platforms such as SVG. You can include code in your projects and even add actions without programming.
- Assets panel: Easily mount animations with pre-made assets from a useful new panel. Store, manage, and reuse ready-to-use assets in documents. Export any image or symbol as an asset and then import it into the Assets panel.
- Share content on social media quickly: Quickly share your animations on Twitter. Check the preview, write your tweet and click Share to generate a video and publish it.
- Advanced handling: Combine character, manipulation and movement in a single component for easy editing, or mix and match to customize each piece.
System Requirements
Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon or Intel Core Duo processor, or compatible (2 GHz or faster processor)
- Windows 10 version 1903, 1909, 2004 or later
- 2GB RAM (8GB recommended)
- 4 GB of available hard disk space for installation. Additional free space is required during installation (cannot be installed on removable flash storage devices).
- 1024 x 900 screen resolution (1280 x 1024 recommended)
- OpenGL version 3.3 or later (DirectX 12 with feature level 12_0 recommended)
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
macOS
- Intel multi-core processor
- macOS 10.14 or 10.15
- 2GB RAM (8GB recommended)
- 4 GB of available hard disk space for installation. Additional free space required during installation (cannot be installed on a volume that uses case-sensitive files or removable flash storage devices)
- 1024 x 900 screen resolution (1280 x 1024 recommended)
- OpenGL 3.3 or later (Metal support recommended)
- QuickTime 10.x software is recommended.
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to necessary online services. *
Frequent questions
What is Animate and who is it for?
Adobe Animate allows you to create vector animations, advertisements, multimedia content, immersive experiences, applications, games, and much more. All this, in a creation environment based on a timeline. Animate offers native support for standards like HTML5 Canvas and WebGL, and is extensible to custom formats like Snap.SVG. Animate also supports authoring and publishing in Flash formats and with Adobe AIR packaging applications. Animate's flexibility with output formats ensures that content can be viewed anywhere, without the need to install plug-ins. Animate also offers the best drawing and illustration tools, as well as powerful integration with Adobe CreativeSync.
Since Animate is part of Adobe Creative Cloud, you have access to the latest updates and future versions as soon as they are available.
I am a designer using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. How can Animate help me?
Animate is seamlessly integrated with the Adobe design applications you already know, so you can get up to speed quickly while preserving the fidelity and integrity of the designs you import from those applications. You can also create and share your assets using CC libraries, and work in parallel with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Why should you choose Animate over other interactive content creation tools?
Animate provides reference tools in the field of content creation, with which you can create and distribute interactive and animated content that can be seen on desktops, mobile devices, televisions and much more. Take advantage of modern web standards with native support for HTML5 canvas elements and the ability to convert existing Animate files to HTML. Develop your content once, then roll it out to virtually any device or operating system, including Android and iOS. Create or revitalize content for any format or device, including the latest Ultra HD displays and monitors. In addition, it easily generates ads with HTML5 canvas elements that comply with the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards.
Is Adobe Animate compatible with files saved in earlier versions of Flash Professional?
Yes. Files and projects saved in earlier versions of Flash Professional are compatible with Adobe Animate. However, note that ActionScript 2 support ceased after the introduction of Flash Professional CC in 2013.