I have a fairly complex (400+layers) graphic I need to animate.
I've looked at After Effects, but while it is a stunningly capable app, it's very much overkill for my needs, and the learning curve is probably a month (along with the headaches).
I also looked at Principle and Flinto. Here you need Sketch as a bridge. Principle and Flinto are basically for animating transitions within mobile apps, or web applications. They work by artboards, where one artboard represents a frame. The problem is that they rasterise your content.
I hate seeing pixels now that I'm used to vector level definition!
There is also good old Flash Professional to consider.
Finally, I could simply animate a .svg with javascript. But I was kind of looking for a GUI app to make essentially doing the same thing easier.
My question: I'm looking for the easiest, most intuitive way to animate a layered vector graphic while retaining these elements as vector shapes, not rasters.
Does anyone have experience?
Please help.
Thanks!
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.