What are some suitable programs for making animated illustrations of technical diagrams, e.g., communication over a computer network, data flow through deep neural network architectures, image processing steps, information flow between geographical positions on a map, etc?
What I am looking to produce is something similar to this animated illustration:
(image credit Google AI Blog)
Preferably I would use an online tool, but the ones I have found seem more oriented towards marketing and social media (such as Visme, Crello, Adobe Spark, Animaker, Powtoon, etc). It would be a plus if the program came with various icons for typical tech-related objects (server, database, cloud, etc).
I know that if you're proficient enough in animation you can probably use any advanced animation software to produce the desired result. I am comfortable with drawing and illustration software like Photoshop and Inkscape, and have done some basic animation, but sadly lack any advanced animation skills. I would therefore prefer if the tooling was geared toward technical animations with some restrictions on artistic freedom. But if no tool that fit my description exists and I have to take on some general purpose animation software (like Adobe Animate?) then that is ok too. I just want to be sure that I am not missing some more convenient way of creating these kind of animated illustrations without having to create my own icons/objects.
I am sure there is someone from the tech industry with plenty of experience with producing these kind of animated illustrations that can help me find an answer to this. And, if possible, links to example animations created with any suggested software would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
