Features of Adobe’s Animate CC Revealed

New application launched by Adobe is considered as a major element in Creative Cloud app suit. The application hits the web as it is known for replacing Flash Professional CC. The evolution of Flash Pro is available for download and the name is dedicated to the modifications made in the app.

For more than a couple of decades, Flash Professional has set a standard for creating responsive animations. It is a well known fact that over a large volume of Flash Professional content uses HTML5; therefore Animate CC would also continue supporting SWF and AIR Flash formats.

Change of name from Flash Professional CC to Animate CC more elaborately defines the role, name, position and purpose. The former app aims at producing multimedia, ActionScript, vector graphic images and other SWF (Small Web Format)  components, while the latter aims at producing animation.

The Purpose

As the name specifies Animate CC is meant to handle all kinds of animation jobs that ranges from banner ads and infographics to micro interactions. It is a precious app for those who love to spend time with animated Dribble shots, designing app prototypes and other design jobs.

Although, Animate CC is ignited with many optimized features, but the reality is that you might find yourself familiar with all these features. This new app might looks advanced to someone who is new to programming applications, but it is not capable enough to lure attention of those who are using apps like Flash 4 from the past couple of years.

Animate CC not only accepts ActionScript, but JavaScript as well, therefore the scripts that have been used to replace the Flash animation can be re-functioned as a cohesive workflow.

What it Offers

More features have been introduced that makes this app even more effective than the last couple of CS versions of Flash together. Some of the features are enlisted herein.

• Its ability to anchor content to any desired position, resize the stage, streamline scaling design feature are some of the updates.
• Requests for exporting multiple resolutions are now possible and this feature is unique for bitmap jobs.
• The app introduces optimized vector drawing tools such as the brushes that do not require conversion to shapes for editing.
• Tagged Swatches is a major new feature addition of which is expected in other creative apps of the Adobe suite.
• Setting a color to tagged swatch reflects in the artwork; any subsequent changes can immediately be noticed in the images.

What About Formats

• All the boundaries of Flash Professional CC are set free by Animate CC as it provides extensive support to web standards including mobile arena. In Animate CC, the user can export for
  •  WebGL
  • 4K Video
  • HTML5 Canvas
• It is even possible to create a Sprite Sheet on the basis of keyframes and further animation can be done through it with the help of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
• .OAM packaging is another new aspect introduced by Animate CC, which is a zip format that allows packaging up the assets for import into other dedicated Adobe tools such as Dreamweaver CC and Muse CC.
• Animate CC is integrated with all those tools that Flash users and industry experts have missed on such as the export support for a number of formats.

Some Drawbacks of Extensive Format Support

Although Animate CC provided extensive support for major formats, but there are some drawbacks that user might face due to multiple format support feature.

• One must know about the technical specifications of all the formats in order to successfully export to these formats.
• All web standard formats does not support the features integrated in Animate CC application

Note: It is important that you must carefully understand the message, if displayed by the app, in case you try to export any feature that the particular format does not support.

Is Animate CC Worth it or Not?

Some Flash lovers might consider the app just a clone of it, but if you actually use it for a week, you would amaze how you were living without it. Nevertheless, a revolution has been made in design era with the exclusive new features that it brings along.

Animate CC does not require an entrenched player, it is free from any sorts of security vulnerabilities, and of course it exports exclusively to web standard formats and all this features makes it an outstanding animation app.

In design arena, Animate CC comes as a tool that has offered many exclusive features, much awaited from years. It can be considered as a responsive app that can filled up many ambiguities observed in a number of apps by designers. It might be difficult for most of you to accept this truth, but it is a fact that ‘Flash is Dead’ and all of us can only expect the best from Animate CC.