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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 6: Don’t Stop! Exploring Plugins and Resources That Will Keep You Going

Looking back, I realize how many new things we've been through. At the beginning of this book, Lottie was something you may have heard about but maybe you weren't sure what it was or how it worked, and now, just five chapters later, I'm sure you feel confident enough when talking about Lottie's environment, animations and After Effects (AE). You've learned about and experienced the benefits of creating animations with AE and LottieFiles, you are now familiar with Adobe AE, and are capable of ideating, sketching, creating, and exporting your own unique animations, and have had the chance to learn and experience a real user experience (UX) animation workflow on your own.

That said, this chapter is a handy guide to keep closer when animating, a place you can come back to any time you need to find new resources for your animations. In the following sections, you'll find...