Why does nobody talk about how long vector art actually takes to render?

I spent 3 hours on a simple geometric pattern in Illustrator last night and was shocked to find the final export ate 12 minutes just processing. Where did you find the most surprising bottleneck in your digital art workflow?

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ruby_grant4d ago

Wait, you mean the final export is what takes forever? I always blamed my own computer before.

riverp374d ago

12 minutes for a simple geometric pattern sounds about right if you had a lot of overlapping shapes or gradients. The biggest bottleneck I ever found was turning off all the live effects and preview features before export. Try flattening your transparency and rasterizing any complex gradients first, it cuts render time in half. Also make sure your document color mode is set to RGB if you're exporting for screen, CMYK adds way more processing.