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IIRC many 2D animators considered the old Adobe Flash Professional to be one of the best 2D animation tools ever made.

• codetrotter 4y ago
  Fun fact: An animated TV series that ran from 2010 to 2019 developed by Lauren Faust, was animated in Adobe Flash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_...
  • thesuitonym 4y ago
    Actually, there were quite a few animated TV series that were animated in Flash (And later Adobe Animate). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_television_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis...
    • yreg 4y ago
      That is indeed quite a few.
    • isametry 4y ago
      The abundance of obscure and overly specific lists is one of my favorite features of Wikipedia. Thanks for linking!
  • tetris11 4y ago
    Many Adult Swim shows too: Harvey Birdman and Metalocalypse come to mind
• themodelplumber 4y ago
  Many 2D illustrators, industrial designers, and graphic designers considered it one of the best 2D drawing tools ever made. One of my roommates in the heyday of Flash was an industrial designer who was paid by an Italian business to design aftermarket wheels for cars, which he did in Flash. Eventually he figured out a Flash > Studio Max workflow he liked and finished projects in 3D that way. That guy could draw anything in Flash and preferred it over Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fireworks.
  • kmeisthax 4y ago
    Funnily enough that was actually the original goal of Flash - back when it was called SmartSketch. The idea was to have a vector drawing tool for pen tablets. But it sold absolutely horribly. Jonathan Gay pivoted it to animation shortly thereafter and rebranded it as FutureSplash, and then got bought out by Macromedia.
• robertoandred 4y ago
  It's still around, it's just called Adobe Animate now. Can export to video, to web, etc.