Exploring the Animate Interface

While Adobe does perform an interface refresh every 5 years or so on most of their creative software, many of the various panels and tools within Animate should be easily recognizable to those who have only had experience with Adobe Flash Professional or even Macromedia Flash. Animate has long been admired for the general workflows within the application and it would be a shame to break a good experience!

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Of course, that is not to say that the Animate UI hasn't changed and improved over the years. In fact, the 2020 version of Animate saw a complete interface refresh that was tweaked and improved upon for Animate 2021.

We'll now look over some of the more persistent interface elements that are part of any Animate workspace, no matter what type of project you are working on.

Important User Interface Elements

While it is absolutely true that the Animate interface can be customized to create hundreds of variants depending upon...