After Effects does not load the opacity of some illustrator layers.

Question

I built a big city isometrically in Adobe Illustrator, this city has a size of 5400 px / 2200 px.

The machine I'm running after and illustrator has the FX-8350 CPU, 8GB RAM, 450GB SSD, GTX 1060 3GB.

When I imported the city for after effects, I noticed that some trees, and buildings that have shadows (opacity) weren't loading correctly.

But in some strange way, some parts of the city, it's correctly loading the tree shadows:

As this area of the city has a different colored floor, I decided to do a separate test in After.

I imported a new illustrator file into after, which only contained a few floors and trees, and to my surprise, after effects managed to load correctly:

How can I fix the error of the shadows happening in my city?

Mylenium · Answer

Actually it's not just the shadows, but rather the whole appearance of your artwork changes, including unrealted colors changing, which would most certainly mean color management issues/ lack of CM. Also your document does not appear to be designed at 72 DPI and hence everything gets quite soft through to unnecessary extra resampling/ antialiasing. As for the shadows - that woulkd require to know how you created them in the first place, but the most likely guess would have to be that you did not check your group blending options and/ or belnding modes in the Appearance and Opacity panels in AI. It only works in your isolated test because there's nothing else that would affect this blending. I suggest you look into that. In case of doubt consider manually rasterizing/ flattening the artwork and exporting it as a PSD. There are simply some limitations with AI files.

Mylenium

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