>helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/end-of-life.html>Adobe Animate will be discontinued effective March 1, 2026, and will no longer be available on Adobe.com. Enterprise customers can access the application, download their content, and receive technical support until March 1, 2029. For all other customers, technical support, application access, and the ability to download content will be available until March 1, 2027.>Access to your Animate files and project data will end on the date that support ends. To ensure a smooth transition, we encourage you to export your Animate FLA and XFL files to other formats such as SWF, SVG, and MP4 before this date.Well folks, as some of you may know, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was animated entirely in Flash, which is now called Adobe Animate. Thanks to leaked files over the years, the show assets have been available for fans who wanted to try making their own pony animations, or were just curious to see the inner-workings of the show. One year from now, every single .FLA or .XFL file will no longer be accessible, rendering every single one of these leaked assets unusable.For those working on pony animations in Animate, finish up your projects quickly because time is running out.
>>43006030Can't you still use the program if you pirate it? idgi
>>43006030I still use Adobe Flash 8 for mlp stuff. Still looking for that flash addon that the show used for rigging to be as close as the animators did during the timeframe.
>>43006030>he thinks old versions of flash/animate will no longer work
>>43006030>>Access to your Animate files and project dataUh, you mean on my fucking HARD DISK? LolJust more evidence to never submit to any "cloud" garbage run by Big Tech.
>>43006038What if Windows kills support for it ?
>>43006047If you mean Toonboom Harmony, it's another program. I used to have it, but then I found out the leaked files were not Toonboom files but regular Flash files.
>>43006144Microsoft doesn't "kill support" for third-party software, but in case you mean "What if it stops working with Windows 12", you just start using a VM (or second PC) with the version of Windows that does support it. Are all of you people completely technologically inept?
>>43006144Just use an older version of windows. Use it in a vm if you have to.
>>43006030Oh no!!! Anyways...
>>43006047Retard can't search. This thing that can be found in 5 clickshttps://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs?m=1
>>43006154>Are all of you people completely technologically inept?You're asking this on a website full of people that genuinely struggled with the new kindergarten homework tier captcha
>>43006030Speaking of more things shutting down, pomf.lain.la will be next: https://infrablog.lain.la/pomf-announcementThe archives should have quite a number of these links
>>43006224I guess we need to run a scraper on Desu to catch every link and archive it, but I don't have the resources or knowhow to do that. I hope somebody is willing to step up for this.
>>43006288Found this the other day:https://github.com/firlin123/desuarchive-mlp-backuphttps://github.com/firlin123/desu-mlpBut I know that some people should have the entirety of desuarchive's /mlp/ because desuarchive staff gave it out a while back when someone asked.
>>43006030OP I think you misunderstood the meaning of lost media.
>>43006318So what is that? There's no description on either page.
>>43006038Your hard drive will explode if you try to open any FLA files after the date.
>>43006030I must've missed the part where that's my problem.
good thing I'm still using adobe animate cc 2015 and no cloudnigger garbage.
>>43006180>all paid>no free toolsngmi anon, did you even check the link you posted?
>>43006030You'll still be able to use the program OP.
Wow. I am very surprised that Animate is being discontinued. The reasons they give on their official announcement are vague. Anyone know what the details were? Was Toon Boom kicking Adobe's butt in the market? Do they anticipate that 2D animation will be done entirely by AI in the near future so tools like Animate are no longer needed? Or maybe Adobe has a replacement in the works that hasn't been announced yet? I had the impression that Animate was in slow decline but I thought it was still a really big player in the animation scene. Maybe its empire was collapsing faster than I realized.
>>43006765It's because Adobe is pants-on-head retarded, always has been. Also I think it was one of their few programs that doesn't have AI all over it.
>>43006047>Still looking for that flash addon that the show used for rigging to be as close as the animators did during the timeframe.A lot of it was from independent programmers that might not be around anymore, or from insider animation groups that were personally recommended. >>43006765>Was Toon Boom kicking Adobe's butt in the market?Yes, massively.>Do they anticipate that 2D animation will be done entirely by AI in the near future so tools like Animate are no longer needed?Considering how every tech company treats AI as the holy grail of widgets, Adobe was far more likely to crowbar AI tools in rather than let the trend pass.>Or maybe Adobe has a replacement in the works that hasn't been announced yet?Probable. Or, rather that somebody else has the replacement, and Adobe dumps a tonne of cash to acquire it.>I had the impression that Animate was in slow decline but I thought it was still a really big player in the animation scene.Lol, what animation scene. Look how many shows were actively developed in 2025 compared to previous years.>Maybe its empire was collapsing faster than I realized.Possible. To be seen how EULA and digital ownership laws affect them.
>>43006030this only affects people actively subscribed to use flash/animate. ive been using animate 2019 since 2019 (and the rest of the 2019 suite through a pirated iso file). most of this post is FUD.
>>43006047>Still looking for that flash addon that the show used for rigging to be as close as the animators did during the timeframe.Considering the fact that DHX employees claim that working on MLP is hell on earth and the show still has to outsource to Philippines to meet the deadline. I would say that there's zero shortcut and they do fucking everything manually.Basically MLP is borderline cel animation labor wise.
>people telling their career is ruined Is open software that bad?
>>43006030Imagine actually paying for Abobe whatever the current subscription nonsense is. We have CS6 which they can never take away.
>>43006371I'm saying that at least one person is making daily backups. See the releases here: https://github.com/firlin123/desu-mlp/releases
>>43008024firlin might now be around forever either, because of a particular military operation
>>43006398This.But I got flash Cs5.5 as it's the only one I could get working on linux.
