The current intro price for Affinity Designer (39.99) is a steal and you also get some nice brush libraries and templates with it. The vector brushes are stunning too for freehand stuff. I found it much faster with larger documents than Illustrator, and it has a lot of nifty and clever things. My main goal was getting pure curves over to Affinity, no complex layouts.īut yeah, I can highly recomment Affinity Designer and the Affinity Photo Beta for Windows which is free ATM. My tests were with an earlier Beta and some things may have changed in the meantime. Prior to shape layers, Adobe Illustrator was the most efficient way to work with vectors inside of Adobe After Effects. We reached out to UI/UX designer and illustrator Corina Pladmada to learn more about her bright botanical illustrations and why Affinity Designer is a. Designer also imports PDF and Adobe PSD files, and exports a range of raster file formats and the PSD file format. I realized the power of using Adobe Illustrator along with Adobe After Effects long before they were bundled together in a collection. Affinity Designer is capable of opening many raster and vector file formats directly. EMF worked best for my relatively simple purposes in the end and it was relatively small. Affinity Designer as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator for Motion Design.PDF works, but since Rhino doesn’t do it natively, results depend on the PDF printer you install (I tried Bullzip).AI export from Rhino can’t be read in Affinity Designer, since Rhino is using the ages old EPS based format (which was used by Illustrator until version 8 IIRC) while Affinity expects the PDF based newer format.I tried this during the beta and this is what I found:

Affinity illustrator