What is Overlord?

The Prince that was promised. Our hope for the future. An end to blog posts about Prepping Illustrator Files for After Effects in 7 Easy Steps.

Overlord is a set of two panels that, when both open, create a portal between Illustrator and After Effects. This mystical Stargate allows the transfer of shapes as you need them, while animating, without the need for file organization, importing, converting to shape layers or redrawing. This is the vector workflow you imagined when working with apps created by the same company.

Ae shape layers may also be transferred back to Illustrator for editing with more robust drawing tools. Think of it as using Illustrator as a plugin for After Effects.

Work with shapes, not files.