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UI Animations with Lottie and After Effects

By : Mireia Alegre Ruiz, Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
Book Image

UI Animations with Lottie and After Effects

By: Mireia Alegre Ruiz, Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

Lottie is a small and scalable JSON-based animation file. LottieFiles is the platform where Lottie animations can be uploaded, tested, and shared. By combining the LottieFiles plugin and the LottieFiles platform, you’ll be able to create stunning animations that are easy to integrate in any device. You’ll also see how to use the Bodymovin plugin in After Effects to export your animation to a JSON file. The book starts by giving you an overview of Lottie and LottieFiles. As you keep reading, you’ll understand the entire Lottie ecosystem and get hands-on with classic 2D animation principles. You’ll also get a step-by-step guided tour to ideate, sketch for storytelling, design an icon that will fulfill the needs and expectations of users based on UX, and finally animate it in Adobe After Effects. This will help you get familiar with the After Effects environment, work with vector shape layers, create and modify keyframes using layer properties, explore path and mask features, and adjust timing easily to create professional-looking animations. By the end of this animation book, you’ll be able to create and export your own Lottie animations using After Effects and implement them in mobile apps using React Native. You’ll also have an understanding of 2D animation best practices and principles that you can apply in your own projects.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1 - Building a Foundation With After Effects and LottieFiles
5
Part 2 - Cracking Lottie Animations
9
Part 3 - Adding Your Lottie Animations Into Mobile Apps

Chapter 5: Share It With the World: Working With LottieFiles

Here we are, ready to export our awesome first Lottie animation as a .json file to then add it to our app or website using React Native. Our app is minutes away from looking stunning and making a quality change. Follow me!

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to export our Lottie animation using both Bodymovin and LottieFiles plugins for Adobe After Effects (AE). We will guide you through creating a LottieFiles platform account so that we can preview our animations and hand them off to developers. We will also have a look at the LottieFiles mobile app for iOS so that we can effortlessly test our animations directly on mobile. We will also teach you how to create simple animations without even using AE and, finally, we will have some fun by converting animations into stickers for Telegram.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Exporting our animations from AE to .json files
  • Creating...