Adobe After Effects vs. Adobe Illustrator CC

Adobe After Effects

282 Reviews and Ratings

Adobe Illustrator CC

1,574 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe After Effects	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe After Effects allows users to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions, remove an object from a clip, start a fire or make it rain, or animate a logo or character. The vendor states that with After Effects, users can apply motion-graphics and animation to any digital object.	$20.99 Per User Per Month
Adobe Illustrator	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Illustrator CC is a vector-based graphic design software.	$20.99 per month

Pricing

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Illustrator

Annual Plan (Paid Monthly): $20.99
Per User Per Month
Monthly Plan: $31.49
Per User Per Month
Annual Plan (Prepaid): $239.88
Per User Per Year

Yearly - Billed Monthly: $20.99
per month
Monthly: $31.49
per month
Yearly - Billed Upfront: $239.88
per year

Pricing Offerings
Adobe After Effects	Adobe Illustrator
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Illustrator
Considered Both Products	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro are quite similar in the sense of their functionalities as far as I'm aware and the interfaces are more or less similar. But Adobe After Effects is preferred over Final Cut Pro mostly because of the fact that it is part of the Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe Illustrator is used for creating templates, logos, cartoons but you can animate the beautiful logo or cartoon with the help of a camera and 3D space, it worth the experience no matter what... Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Ross-Edwards Motion Designer in Social Media at Jump450 (Animation, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects Adobe After Effects is a great bridge from still graphics and vector, to motion graphics. The integration with Premiere makes things work seamlessly and the way it can ustilise native PSDs and ai files makes working in Adobe After Effects ideal for most clients. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects In Adobe After we can do Motion Graphics, 2d Animation, Text Animation, 3d Animation, Video Editing, Chroma Key Cutting, Visual Effects, Color grading, Motion Tracking all this can be done in After Effects only, and I have been using this software quite a while so it's a … Incentivized Helpful? Miko Mikaela Garcia Graphics Video Editor Specialist in Professional Services at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects A lot more features and support through Adobe with After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Romi Kalathiya App/Game Designer \| UI/UX & Prototype Expert \| Motion Graphics \| Video Editor \| GIF \| JSON in Marketing at Freelance (Animation, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects [Adobe After Effects] is a beast and VEGAS Pro is just a baby when compared to Adobe. It doesn't match [Adobe After Effects] when it comes to the feature and performance it offers. Incentivized Helpful? John Zelayandia Content Specialist in Marketing at Taos (Luxury Goods & Jewelry, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is on par with most of these other non-Adobe software. It is able to edit, create, render, illustrate, stabilize video content; and so much more. Incentivized Helpful? ANDREW TOUTANT Sr. Designer / Art Direction in Corporate at Rip Media Group (Animation, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects After Effects is more versatile for animations than Premiere for sure. And now, with the .mogrt templates, it can be great for keeping consistent animations and branding guides when sharing work with other animators and editors. I also like their 3d plugins and advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Don't know about any other tools in the market which can replace Adobe After Effects Incentivized Helpful? Avery Chipman Interior Designer in Professional Services at EOP Architects (Architecture & Planning, 51-200 employees) Chose Adobe After Effects I've created videos with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe PhotoShop (with the GIF function), as well as Canva and other online products. Adobe Premiere Pro does not have the same capabilities for creating vector-based content, meaning if that is necessary, Adobe After Effects is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe After Effects Because they are part of the Creative Cloud platform, all Adobe software. They are well integrated into each other. If I create a vector in Illustrator and save it, load it up in After Effects, and notice that I need to adjust it? Well I don't have to fully close out of After … Incentivized Helpful?	Adobe Verified User Chose Adobe Illustrator The integration with Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Fonts, combined with the powerful array of tools offered in Adobe Illustrator makes up for the high price compared with other tools that are often free. You even get an outstanding 3D renderer built in with excellent … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Davies Creative Director in Marketing at Paragon Design Group (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator gives you much more control over every aspect of the design process. Canva has several limitations like being unable to customize gradients or creating clipping masks. Inkscape only works in RGB space and has a less intuitive user interface. They benefit from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Illustrator There are so many things you can create in Adobe Illustrator CC. It's easy to use and the options for saving and exporting are fantastic. Fortunately, this is the only software of its kind that I have used. I know other people that have used lesser quality products and turned … Incentivized Helpful? Paloma Guimarães Graphic design student in Social Media at UNOBRASP (Design, 11-50 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adode Illustrator is better for the design work in the company, sice it works with vectors and easy shortcuts, the other adobe software is not so useful because we do not work with video editing or rendering. Adobe Illustrator CC meets all our needs and expectations and that is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Illustrator I like to use Illustrator concurrently with PhotoShop and InDesign. Illustrator is better for working with vectors, whereas PhotoShop is better for using pixels, editing and creating raster-based art. When it comes to Illustrator in comparison to InDesign, the latter is better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Fireworks Fireworks probably isn't available anymore as the parent company was bought out by Adobe, it's main selling point was it's seamless integration into FLASH animations which browsers no longer support. It wasn't a bad program but it's extremely dated at this … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Lacienski Design Manager / Art Director in Marketing at U.S. Patriot Tactical (Retail, 201-500 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator When compared to other vector-based artwork programs, Adobe Illustrator CC is far more robust, feature-rich, and user-friendly. Other programs fail to deliver adequate exports of varied file types. With Adobe Illustrator CC, there are many workflow options, user tools, and … Incentivized Helpful? Sissy Yee Founder // Creative Director in Marketing at Berlin Grey LLC (Graphic Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is generally preferred to use over the use of InDesign and Photoshop mostly due to the nature of our work. It's usually the most efficient in getting what needs to be done, done. It's easier to use than Photoshop for a lot of things. InDesign also has a pen … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Adobe Illustrator 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Heather Miller Senior Graphic Designer in Marketing at Oregon State University Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CC has so much more options and tools to create the perfect vector graphics when compared to other programs. Illustrator is often the program that I use to create graphics, and then insert those files directly into the other programs listed. The other programs … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Illustrator
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (34 ratings)	9.1 (107 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (2 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (3 ratings)	7.2 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (7 ratings)	5.0 (25 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)