>>43006030
Can't you still use the program if you pirate it? idgi

>>43006030
>he thinks old versions of flash/animate will no longer work

>>43006030
>>Access to your Animate files and project data
Uh, you mean on my fucking HARD DISK? Lol

Just more evidence to never submit to any "cloud" garbage run by Big Tech.

>>43006038
What if Windows kills support for it ?

>>43006047
If 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.

>>43006144
Microsoft 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?

>>43006144
Just use an older version of windows. Use it in a vm if you have to.

>>43006030
Oh no!!! Anyways...

>>43006047
Retard can't search. This thing that can be found in 5 clicks
https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs?m=1

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>>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

>>43006030
Speaking of more things shutting down, pomf.lain.la will be next: https://infrablog.lain.la/pomf-announcement
The archives should have quite a number of these links

>>43006224
I 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.

>>43006288
Found this the other day:
https://github.com/firlin123/desuarchive-mlp-backup
https://github.com/firlin123/desu-mlp
But 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.

>>43006030
OP I think you misunderstood the meaning of lost media.

>>43006318
So what is that? There's no description on either page.

>>43006038
Your hard drive will explode if you try to open any FLA files after the date.

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>>43006030
I must've missed the part where that's my problem.

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good thing I'm still using adobe animate cc 2015 and no cloudnigger garbage.

>>43006180
>all paid
>no free tools
ngmi anon, did you even check the link you posted?

>>43006030
You'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.

>>43006765
It'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.

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>>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.

>>43006030
this 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.

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>people telling their career is ruined
Is open software that bad?

>>43006030
Imagine actually paying for Abobe whatever the current subscription nonsense is. We have CS6 which they can never take away.

>>43006371
I'm saying that at least one person is making daily backups. See the releases here: https://github.com/firlin123/desu-mlp/releases

>>43008024
firlin might now be around forever either, because of a particular military operation

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>>43006398
This.
But I got flash Cs5.5 as it's the only one I could get working on linux.

>>43008202
I know. I'm just saying that people are already scraping it. Of course the more people doing this the better.

At this point, I'm surprised someone doesn't leak the source code. I mean, how else are you gonna preserve Pony waifus on future hardware?

And I have zero faith in an open source solution.

>>43006030
Oh wow, I'm guessing there must have been a lot of backlash because Adobe has changed course. The page that the OP linked has been updated.
> There is no longer a deadline or date by which Animate will no longer be available.
> Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode for all customers
> Maintenance mode means we will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we are no longer adding new features.

>>43009841
I mean, they literally gave a month headsup. A month. And everything on the cloud would be gone too, plus with how long it takes to get a full project done...
I'm surprised fags haven't learned to pirate yet from any and all subscription services

>>43009702
That's good to know. Getting the installer to work I had to fuck around with ddl files manually. Taken me like two weeks of tinkering and autism just to get it working stable. I'll give CC 2021 a go as I do miss some features like virtual camera.

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Doesn't matter, Hasbro will never return to Animate. We will never get visuals like pic related again.

>>43010260
How mad would you be if it turned out Hasbro was planning on going back to this style for G6 but scrapped it because of Adobe?

>>43007691
It's not great. Usable? Yes, to some extend. Open source tools for content production are lagging like 20 years behind. At least most of them do, there are obviously a few which are on par or even industry standard (OBS, Blender).
But take GIMP for example. It's not even close to photoshop from the early 2000s.

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Good thing I was planning on changing the artstyle slightly anyway, rendering the existing assets useless.
(Vid rel is not finished work; still trying to get 3/4 to look correct, plus a lot of people feel the hooves are too dark and that the back curve is too flat)

(Though I now see >>43009841. Doesn't change anything, but good to know.)

>>43010425
She looks inbred.

Bump.

>>43010474
So pretty much in character, got it

>>43010425
is cute, but the body looks kinda box-y instead of a little curved like >>43010260

>>43006030
No one cares there's literally a bazillion programs to animate retarded cunt

>>43006030
sad

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>>43010393
>But take GIMP for example
stupid name for literally anything lmfao

Bump

>>43007691
I remembered there was an inkscape derivative called ponyscape back in the day. It had additional features that helped with pony vectors. These changes were later added to inkscape. (Mentioning this because I’m looking for a download.)

>>43012800
God I remember using ponyscape many years ago to make pony vectors. Haven't heard that name in a long time.

>>43012820
I don’t suppose you still have a copy lying around somewhere?