Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate, previously Adobe Flash Professional, is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating interactive web and desktop solutions. It provides features for drawing, illustration, and authoring. Users can adjust stroke paths with its vector art brushes and create custom brushes. The 360° rotatable canvas allows for optimal angles and strokes, and the software has improved pencils and brushes for precise vector outlines. Audio syncing is simplified with direct control on the timeline, eliminating coding. A faster color changing feature enables automatic color updates across projects. Colored onion skinning aids in complex animation creation.

Adobe Animate integrates with CreativeSync, providing access to Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries. Users can license high-quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics within the software, and add animations to static content. Colors, vector graphics, and brushes can be accessed during the work process. The software supports multiple platforms including HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash (SWF), AIR, video, and custom platforms such as SVG via extensions. It also allows for 4K+ video export, custom resolution export, and .OAM support for easy importing to Adobe Muse, InDesign, DPS and Dreamweaver.