Adobe retires Flash Professional, outs Animate CC

Adobe is officially taking a step back from Flash and now walking towards HTML5 with the announcement of its new tool – the Adobe Animate CC.

According to Adobe’s blog post, the software company rewrote Flash Professional due to the “emergence of HTML5 and demand for animations that leverage web standards.” The result is a new tool called Adobe Animate CC, a transformed Flash Professional with native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Check out the features in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhgQ4ZDKYfs

Adobe says that Animate CC will continue supporting Flash (SWF) and AIR formats. It can also output animations to virtually any format (including SVG), through its extensible architecture.

Animate CC will be available in January 2016 in the Creative Cloud desktop application.

source: Adobe