When comparing Fusion Character Animator vs Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional), the Slant community recommends Fusion Character Animator for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D animation tools for game development?” Fusion Character Animator is ranked 6th while Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Fusion Character Animator is:
Sprite art can be edited within FCA with paint/draw, tint and scaling tools.
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Pros
Pro Editor module
Sprite art can be edited within FCA with paint/draw, tint and scaling tools.
Pro Requires no knowledge of sprite animation
FCA provides a collection of pre-built animations, and only requires the user to supply images for each body part.
Pro Works with most popular game engines
Fusion Character Animator is compatible with MMF2, Fusion 2.5, Scirra Construct, GameDev, RPGMaker VX Ace, Game Maker and Unity 2D.
Pro Pixelate Me for retrogaming
Sprites can be automatically reduced and pixelated, with additional control over the color palette.
Pro Easy to manage generated pictures and folder
Export file manager can manager or erase easily generated pictures.
Pro Powerful tool
This program has developed AAA TV Series and Movies like Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Pro Export to HTML5
Pro Interpolation between frames
Several ways to create animation and special effects: motion tweens, classic tweens.
Pro Create and organize layers
Layers help you organize the artwork in your document. You can draw and edit objects on one layer without affecting objects on another layer.
Pro Bone tool
Bone tool that enables you to link symbols together quickly and easily in a parent/child relationship commonly referred to as inverse kinematics.
Pro Easy to use
Cons
Con Basic tool
The program is not a powerful tool, you can only choose from a small selection of pre-set animations and pre-drawn sprites.
Con Humanoid sprites only
FCA uses a single human-shaped skeletal model, and all the provided animations are for human movement.
Con No more support
Adobe ditched AIR which they will EOL at 2020
Con Exspensive
Flash can be priced at $999.99 on the official Abobe store.