The Adobe Animate team is excited to announce the latest version of Adobe Animate CC. This new version pushes the boundaries of the animation space with Asset warping, Layer Parenting, layer effects, and automatic lip syncing — all designed to enhance the quality of animations created with the tool. In addition, Animate CC 2019 enables 2D animators to use their existing skills for creating VR experiences (beta), introduces a new WebGL-based runtime (beta), significant performance enhancements to the HTML Canvas output, and much more.

Some of the new features include:

Asset sculpting for vector and raster content

Create new poses faster for vector or raster content using handles on a shape to change the mesh. No need to redraw assets on every frame — just tween between poses and create animations.

Source: https://theblog.adobe.com/announcing-adobe-animate-cc-2019/