Greenlaw wrote:Just wondering: Since the current Animate CC supports HTML 5 output, does it really matter that Flash Player is no longer supported? It seems to me like the platform is just adapting to current web standards.
I'm not an expert on Animate CC though, I only started learning it a week ago. We work with other studios that use it for TV animation, so I figured I better know something about it too. Anyway, the impression I get is that Animate CC and even the old Flash program is still widely used in the industry, at least in TV production.
Well, the Flash Player still can do things that are either very difficult or plain impossible to achieve in "HTML5". For example, something as trivial as a video with alpha transparency is still not really possible outside the Flash player.
But browsers are catching up (in most cases already have). Yes, Flash/Animate CC is still widely used for animation - more because of its legacy than for the strength of its animation tools at this point, in my opinion. The bone/IK tool is almost unusable, for example. But a large number of 2d animators were brought up (or introduced to) Flash when they first started to animate digitally for TV, so it still lingers around in many places. Although in the West it seems Toonboom is still way ahead in most 2d animation studios.
Obviously for broadcast animation SWF output is not important at all.