Like many I use Illustrator for its Vector properties in order to animate within After Effects, with the agility to scale up assets infinitely when clients change their minds about shots & movements.

iPads Adobe Draw, meant my assets could become so much more detailed. Which was great! While the push to desktop feature was glitchy for me at best it still mostly resulted with having a neat AI file version of the Draw one. That I could Import into AE with ease. Update with ease. etc.

It's also useful that I can bring in AI assets to PS as smart objects & add textures etc. while still retaining some agility to scale the asset up if need be.

So when Fresco came along with the ability to have vector & bitmap layers in one document, all on my iPad i was so excited.

However I'm disappointed that it only comes up as an option for me to open within PS. Even when the layers are saved as smart objects, I have just wasted my morning trying to understand how changing the colour of my smart object in AI, then moves it's anchor point within PS. Moving all my colour work out of sync with my line work & shade work etc.

I was excited to tell a client that his colour change requests wouldn't take very long and am now so genuinely shocked at how clunky this process has become.

The suggested option of saving the Fresco file as a PDF to open in Illustrator is not sufficient.

Even when not using just bitmaps it flattens my layers and makes unnecessary clipping masks, which make even slight alterations in AI a nightmare.

Furthermore, all my layers are now named - clipping mask.

Would much prefer an option to save to AI & have my bitmaps be smart objects & retain my layer hierarchy etc.

Please & Thank you.