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Adobe Illustrator vs Blender: What are the differences?
Developers describe Adobe Illustrator as "Create logos, icons, sketches, typography and complex illustrations". The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile. On the other hand, Blender is detailed as "*Open Source 3D computer graphics software *". It is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Adobe Illustrator and Blender can be categorized as "Graphic Design" tools.
According to the StackShare community, Adobe Illustrator has a broader approval, being mentioned in 117 company stacks & 288 developers stacks; compared to Blender, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Pros of Adobe Illustrator
- Vector Creation2
Pros of Blender
- Free for Commercial and Personal Use9
- Layers4
- Usable For Graphic Design4
- Dozens of free addons, courses and an active community3
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Cons of Adobe Illustrator
- Massive disk space usage3
- Adobe Updater to slow you down even more3
- Expensive2
- Not really a tool for web design1
- Clunky1
Cons of Blender
- Long Render Time (every 3d program ever)2
- Blender dropped the game engine, see UPBGE1
- Confusing UI and shortcut navigation for newcomers1
