Adobe $ADBE names Anil Chakravarthy its next President and CEO, effective Dec. 1, with longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen moving to Executive Chair. Chakravarthy joined Adobe in 2020 and currently leads its Customer Experience Orchestration business. Before Adobe, he spent nearly five years as CEO of Informatica and previously held senior roles at Symantec. The move completes the succession process Adobe announced in March, when Narayen said he would step down once a successor was found. Narayen has led Adobe since 2007 and oversaw its transformation from packaged software into a cloud-based subscription business, including the shift of Creative Suite to Creative Cloud. Chakravarthy now takes over as Adobe navigates its next major transition around generative and agentic AI.

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Adobe charges $22.99/month for After Effects. Someone open sourced the entire thing and it runs faster on a five year old laptop. It's called Friction. Same idea as After Effects. Vector graphics, motion design, keyframes, timelines. But it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it never asks for a subscription. It uses Skia, the same graphics engine that powers Chrome and Android, so scenes render fast even on modest hardware. You get multiple timelines, multiple scenes, and a full expression editor with real code completion if you want to get technical. It also exports animated SVGs that play in any browser, no video file needed. Adobe built a rental model around a tool that used to just be software. Friction built the software back.

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