Adobe Illustrator CC: Half the battle when it comes to making high-end explainer videos!
April 14, 2021
Adobe Illustrator CC: Half the battle when it comes to making high-end explainer videos!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Illustrator CC
Adobe Illustrator CC is the tool for creating clean-looking, infinitely resizable/enlargeable illustrations and graphical elements. It is additionally 50% of my business's workflow for creating animated explainer videos for our corporate clients, which is a sizable portion of our annual work. The tight integration between Adobe Illustrator CC and Adobe After Effects allows for an efficient, simple workflow that we have used time and time again to produce excellent results that pleased the client.
- Fast, easy-to-understand vector drawing and modification tools
- Tight integration with After Effects for an efficient animation workflow
- Industry-standard support for decades-old vector formats all the way through the present
- Toolset is sometimes confusing for Photoshop users attempting to migrate
- Vector drawing is more similar to 3D modeling than traditional drawing, and awareness of this seems limited/could use more marketing dollars being thrown at it
- Boolean operations using the pathfinder tools are absolutely essential to my own workflow but kind of buried as a feature. I think they deserve a higher-level integration into the toolset.
- Easy creation and editing of infinitely-resizable vector artwork that never loses quality
- Tight integration with Adobe After Effects, creating an efficient animation workflow
- Decades-old vector file format compatibility, enabling use of nearly endless assets
- Paired with Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator CC creates a very inexpensive and effective vector animation workflow that enables our company to easily produce high-end corporate explainer videos (our most recent one was a $14,000 project)
- Allows for easy editing and customization of licensed vector artwork from any source, enabling our company to give the client an accurate art preview earlier in the process and save hundreds of man hours per project in art asset creation
- Extremely low software licensing cost through creative cloud means the software is easy to maintain access to regardless of the scope or number of client projects that use it
Like most people, I came from using Adobe PhotoShop and learned Adobe Illustrator CC later (in my case, in college as a required class for my digital media degree). I didn't realize the power of vector illustration until I took that class, and ever since I've been using Adobe Illustrator CC for anything beyond basic shapes (which Photoshop does just fine). I know there are Adobe Illustrator CC alternatives, but due to its tight integration with After Effects, its low subscription cost, and my long history using it--there is not a real alternative for me.
Do you think Adobe Illustrator CC delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe Illustrator CC's feature set?
Yes
Did Adobe Illustrator CC live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe Illustrator CC go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe Illustrator CC again?
Yes