Announcing Adobe Animate CC 2019

The Adobe Animate team is excited to announce the latest version of Adobe Animate CC. This new version pushes the boundaries of the animation space with Asset warping, Layer Parenting, layer effects, and automatic lip syncing — all designed to enhance the quality of animations created with the tool. In addition, Animate CC 2019 enables 2D animators to use their existing skills for creating VR experiences (beta), introduces a new WebGL-based runtime (beta), significant performance enhancements to the HTML Canvas output, and much more.

Some of the new features include:

Asset sculpting for vector and raster content

Create new poses faster for vector or raster content using handles on a shape to change the mesh. No need to redraw assets on every frame — just tween between poses and create animations.

/And yes, asset warping works with Raster content as well.

Layer parenting and layer effects

Organize your assets on different layers in a parent-child hierarchy. When an object on the parent layer is moved, the child layer moves along with it.

In addition, the layer effects feature provides you the capability to add filters and tint effects on frames. Create interesting in and out fades, depth of field, etc.

Auto Lip-Sync

Don’t waste time matching mouth poses to sound inflections. The new auto lip-syncing feature will use machine learning to make it happen automatically.

Animate After Effects workflow

Use the new simplified workflow to carry your Animate compositions into After Effects. Just drag and drop an FLA file into the new After Effects and proceed to add cool effects.

VR authoring and publishing (beta)

Use an existing 2D skill set and export 360 or Panoramic VR animations. Stitch your existing 360 or panoramic images and create a virtual walkthrough, or let your imagination run wild and create a 360 animated experience using the drawing tools.

New start screen

The all-new start screen in Animate provides a new intent-based onboarding experience. In addition, learn more about the existing or new features using the training videos in the learn tab — without leaving the product.

Other new features

• Export to GL transmission format (glTF).
• Texture publishing to enhance the performance of HTML5 Canvas compositions.

Key enhancements

• Paint bucket tool,
• Quick tween creation,
• Support for Microsoft Surface Pen,
• Redesigned timeline,
• And much more.

If you are at MAX this year, come and meet the team. We’d love to hear from you.

Click here to learn more about the new Animate features, and here to learn more about Animate CC.