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S_ A
Inspiring
January 12, 2025
Question

vector Illustration in Ae animation

  • January 12, 2025
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Hi,

 

I have a question. I have this question in my mind for a long time  I need some senior to correct me. So when I use illustration from Adobe Illustrator  in after effects is it a good practice to discard extra/hidden part of illustration? Does it increase file size in AE when I render that as GIF or Lottie file or some animatin for web?

 

like for example  am drawing an aeroplane in AI. It has 4 lights. I draw the lights and  part of the lights is hidden under wings. and then I group all those lights as a whole. so the part which is hidden under the wings, should I delete those unwanted part before importing it in AE? or it is not a big deal? 

 

Please help me Understand this. Thank you.

 

1 reply

Ishan Y
Ishan Y
Inspiring
January 17, 2025

Hey Suraiya A,

I see you're using Overlord to import layers into After Effects. If you import the wing and the two engines as three separate layers, you can move those two engine layers under the wing layer, and they won't overlap. You'll have to add all these layers to a composition or parent them if you want to animate the motion parameters of the aircraft. Hope this helps!

 

Thanks,

Ishan

S_ A
S_ AAuthor
Inspiring
January 17, 2025

Hello,

 

Thank you so much for taking a notice and kind reply. but I didnt ask that. I was wondering If I need to Delete the overlapping parts in Illustrator before im porting into AE. I was eventually group those in AI before importing that as a 'Single' layer into AE. 

My question was if there are illustrations/part of illustration that wont be seen/needed in main animation in AE , is it a good practice to delete those in AI, and If I dnt will this make the animation size bigger?  . I was just wondering.

 

Thank you.

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