I’ve been looking for another piece of software that lets your draw / manipulate / alter vector illustrations the same way Adobe Animate (and of course previosuly Flash) lets you.
I’m talking specifically of examples such as: Drag a cirlce shape with a fill and a stroke, select parts of the stroke and delete them without messing up the fill inside.
or selecting the fill and being able to paint inside it as in for shading etc.
I’ve been looking at various alternative vector drwaing tools and they are all fairly standard compared to what flash/animate were doing.. do any come close to being similar. Thank you for any info
Hi thank you both for providing alternatives generally to the adobe Animate,
However I accept my descriptions of why i feel like the actual design side of Animate works differnetly to any other vector based program could be a little vague
I took some screen grabs showing some of the editing you can do with a vector shape in seconds that seems to require a lot of messing with multiple shapes / paths and layers in every other vector based drawing app i’ve seen
Yeah it’s Adobe animate, and like many i’m trying to move away from subscription based models of software, and it was almost discontinued completely in March so it feels like its teetering.
No I do get that, I’m not even dead against Adobe or anything.
If nothing else I’m just very curious how their software can do things that no othes can or as far as I can tell get close to aproxomating - obviously that’s why I’ve stuck with it for years now. It made me question if it even was vector editing - but it obviously is
Adobe Animate was previously Adobe Flash, which was previously Macromedia Flash. Macromedia (as it turns out) had acquired the software from FutureWave where it had previously been known as SmartSketch.
All of that is a long winded way of saying that essentially the tool was created (originally) outside of Adobe’s “way” of handling vector art. And essentially it never seemed to truly get integrated into the way of doing things.
It also seems that most other vector art software over time has become closer to how Adobe interacts with vector shapes. So, there may be something out there, but most vector software I know generally treats shapes and splines as Adobe Illustrator generally does.
Just a guess, but you may be better suited looking for an app for a tablet such as an iPad. Nothing comes to mind, but I feel as though there would be something out there that does vector, but if you are using a pen on your tablet it may behave more like Animate/Flash
Yeah I rememebr that’s what hooked me in back in the macromedia days.
I get that things become standardised and maybe I’m the only person in the world who prefers this way of using vectors but a program for pure drawing like this - wouldn’t even need any key framing / animations would be a dream product.
I’ll keep looking on ipad too, that was one of the other reasons I was lookig for an alternative actually, to be able to illustrate on ipad in this way.
but a program for pure drawing like this - wouldn’t even need any key framing / animations would be a dream product.