History MediaNotes / AdobeFlash

* Most of the comics hosted on ''Webcomic/DummComics''

* ''VideoGame/AfroNinja Escape''

* ''VideoGame/{{Afro-Ninja Escape}}''

* ''WebAnimation/RocketMonkeys''

* ''VideoGame/AfroNinjaEscape''

* UsefulNotes/ToonBoom has been competing against Flash in the entertainment industry for years now, and has actually been used in big-scale feature films. Both programs had developed to the point where it is nearly impossible to determine which show was made with which program just by watching them.
** In the 90s, Cambridge Animation Systems produced an animation package called Animo which was rather widely adopted by animation studios in the UK. Most UK cartoons from said time period, including those by King Rollo Films, were done using this software. Animo was eventually purchased by UsefulNotes/ToonBoom.

August 2017 saw Adobe announce Flash Player's [[EndOfAnAge end-of-life]] by 2020, as outlined on their blog [[https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/ here.]] Most of the Internet already saw this coming for at least a year or two beforehand, with Website/YouTube, UsefulNotes/MozillaFirefox, and Platform/{{Newgrounds}} (amongst many others) having ''long'' dropped Flash support. In December 2020, it was dropped entirely, with browsers blocking websites that supported it in 2021. Luckily though, Adobe Animate continues to be developed and it will still be one of the leading 2D animation programs in the world for the near future.

See also WebAnimation, ThickLineAnimation, and Flash's arguable [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successors]] [[Creator/BlenderFoundation Blender]] (for animation) and [[UsefulNotes/{{Unity}} Unity]] (for games).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The two-dimensional characters are animated in Flash, the [=3D=] characters are Autodesk Maya, the backgrounds and a few characters are live-action, and everything is put together with Adobe After Effects. After Season 2, the crew wanted to switch to UsefulNotes/ToonBoom, but in order to do this they would have to export every asset to the new program, which they preferred not to do.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngryBirdsToons'', but only for four episodes from the first season[[note]]"El Porkador!", "The Butterfly Effect", "Bird Flu", and "Piggies From the Deep"[[/note]]. The earlier episodes used a mix of [[TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects CGI and hand-drawn animation]], and the rest of the series is done in UsefulNotes/ToonBoom.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' (for the 1st season; switched to UsefulNotes/ToonBoom after that)

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1KxUl2Pxo the pilot]] was animated in Flash before switching to UsefulNotes/ToonBoom for the series itself.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', although mainly web-based, has been broadcast on various channels. The earlier shorts were animated in Flash, though they switched to UsefulNotes/ToonBoom eventually.

* ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'': Pilot episode only; the series proper is animated on UsefulNotes/ToonBoom. An animation of Jorel's brother singing from the pilot was also reutilized in promos and a Season 1 episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' (season 2; season 1 was animated in UsefulNotes/ToonBoom)

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' - Season 1 used UsefulNotes/ToonBoom (albeit on a rather modest budget), but due to changes in production, Season 2 switched to Flash animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' - The show switched to Adobe Flash in season 2 when Warner Bros. Animation stopped co-producing the series with Creator/CookieJar, leading to severe budget cuts. When the series was revived for a seventh season in 2021, however, it switched its animation to ''[[UsefulNotes/ToonBoom Harmony]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' - The series initally used UsefulNotes/ToonBoom, albiet on a modest budget, which led some people to believe that the series has always been animated with Flash. However, the series switched over to actually using Adobe Flash beginning with season 4, even though its spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' continued to use the Toon Boom software for ''its'' animation.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' - Started using it after the Season 2 episode "A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig". Episodes prior were animated in UsefulNotes/ToonBoom.

Since its introduction, Flash gained more and more features. Due to the shortcuts that it offered (that weren't available in normal animation), combined with steady improvement in computer performance and decreasing budgets and deadlines from cable networks, it started to branch from animations made for the Web into television and even movie animation (this article mainly covers these titles). Many early TV efforts in animating in Flash have not aged very well and were considered poorly animated even for the time, leading many to take a dim view of the software's usage in animation early on. However, standouts existed even back then, and as the technology has progressed and refined, so has the smoothness, dynamism, and fluidity of most Flash-animated series. Also, before the rise of HTML 5's built-in video capabilities and the browser plugin's discontinuation, Flash was a key component in the rise of [[WebVideo Web-based TV]], owing to its installed base and features that make playback easy to implement.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'' (season 1 only; ''M'arillian Invasion'' and on used normal animation)

August 2017 saw Adobe announce Flash Player's [[EndOfAnAge end-of-life]] by 2020, as outlined on their blog [[https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/ here.]] Most of the Internet already saw this coming for at least a year or two beforehand, with Website/YouTube, UsefulNotes/MozillaFirefox, and Website/{{Newgrounds}} (amongst many others) having ''long'' dropped Flash support. In December 2020, it was dropped entirely, with browsers blocking websites that supported it in 2021. Luckily though, Adobe Animate continues to be developed and it will still be one of the leading 2D animation programs in the world for the near future.

* ''Webcomic/Waterworks'' is created entirely in Flash and has several animated segments, which have been converted to [=WebM=] videos.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Flight}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' - The pilot was done in Flash. The rest of the show is not.

* ''WebAnimation/ZombieCollege''

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''