April 8th, 2022 Video

Jace Talk: Adobe Illustrator

https://youtube.com/embed/o6ao9-UIZIQ?autoplay=1&start=692&end=772

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Transcript

adobe illustrator actually which is, something we haven't mentioned yet so a lot of people know what photoshop is but not as many people probably know what illustrator is and they're kind of the same thing they're both like image creation or editing software however photoshop focuses on raster images which is images with pixel data like colors and stuff in it think about pngs or jpegs whereas illustrator focuses on vector images and what vector images are images that are created out of like shapes and lines and curves and things like that and so essentially those files contain mathematical formulas that recreate the images which then render to your screen which is pretty fancy and the main basically the main benefit of this is that you can scale things up and down for example and they never lose quality that's one of the, biggest advantages of vector art and this could be beneficial if you're thinking about like print for example if you want a logo on a business card or if you want the logo on a billboard if it's made in vector you don't have to make two different versions you could just scale it up or down this is also useful in game dev when, you don't really know how big your ui elements need to be maybe they need to be resized and be repurposed in other ways maybe if your game ends up getting like a mobile companion app and you want to use the same ui elements you can scale them down you don't have to recreate new ones so yeah there's a lot of benefits in starting in adobe illustrator for ui elements and we use illustrator to make all of our ui elements our ui artists also use adobe