Using After Effects in Lottie: Captivate Your Audience with Superb Animation

How to Use After Effects to Create Lottie Animations?

Introducing real-time rendering of vector animations, Lottie is an open source tool developed by Airbnb that has revolutionized animation. You can bring your animations to life with Lottie. To create absolutely captivating animation, After Effects Lottie works the best. We bring you a guide that tells you how you can integrate After Effects with Lottie and create amazing animation. Read on as we make you an expert animator.

We begin with understanding what Lottie animation all is about.

1. What Are Lottie Animations?

To learn the use of After Effects Lottie, we need to start with getting a hang of Lottie animations. A basic understanding of how Vector animations work is necessary to understand Lottie animations.

Mathematical equations make up Vector animations. Each element in the animation like the size, the colour of the shapes, and the position are clearly defined. Since Vector animations aren’t made of pixels, when you scale them up and down, you need to make no compromises on quality.

With Lottie, you can boost Vector animation since you can integrate them with mobile and web applications. This is possible since Lottie animations instead of being pre-rendered and played back as videos can be rendered natively on the device. It lets you control and manipulate the animations making them more interactive and engaging. Let’s look into how After Effects Lottie works by first learning how to prepare Vector files.

2. Preparing Vector Files

We shall use Figma to create the Vector file. You may use any software compatible with Vector like Adobe Illustrator. Learning to use Figma prepares you for using After Effects Lottie.

Go through these steps to create a Figma file that supports Lottie plugin on After Effects.

• Navigate to the page or artboard with the vector graphic you are to animate after opening a Figma file
• Click on the Export button contained in the properties panel that’s on the right after selecting the vector graphic
• Choose SVG on the format in the Export dialog box and then choose the folder to save the exported file in

We shall now learn about After Effects importing and animating, a vital part of creating After Effects Lottie.

3. Creating Lottie Animation by Importing to After Effects

The benefit of importing After Effect into Lottie is that the latter being lightweight and scalable, it allows easy integration into web and mobile apps. Follow the following steps to create After Effects Lottie animation.

• Import your vector files after creating a new After Effects composition
• For animating the properties of your design assets like scale, position, and rotation, use keyframes
• Make adjustments if necessary after previewing your animation
• Export the animation as a JSON file after installing the Lottie plugin for After Effects

A website or a mobile app with captivating animation does wonders in drawing the attention of visitors and users. It boosts engagement with the users and enhances their experience. Using After Effects Lottie to create quality animation is a great designing strategy. Our step-by-step guide is sure to help you create stunning animation.

Conclusion

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