Bodymovin Plugin After - Effects Work
Instead of a CSS-animated spinner, Slack uses a Lottie animation of its logo bouncing and wiggling. The JSON file is 12KB vs a 300KB GIF.
Bodymovin: Revolutionizing Motion Design Workflows through JSON-Based Rendered Animation bodymovin plugin after effects
import lottie from 'lottie-web'; const animation = lottie.loadAnimation( container: document.getElementById('anim-container'), renderer: 'svg', // 'svg', 'canvas', or 'html' loop: true, autoplay: true, path: 'data.json' ); Instead of a CSS-animated spinner, Slack uses a
Linear and radial gradients in After Effects often render with different color stops or angles in Lottie-iOS vs. Lottie-web due to differing interpretation of gradient matrices. Bodymovin will ignore this
Journalistic features use Bodymovin exported animations triggered by scroll events (using Lottie-interactivity). Charts and diagrams animate as the user scrolls, syncing precisely to scroll percentage. 8. Limitations and Criticisms 8.1 The "Matrix of Pain" The lack of expression support is the most common designer complaint. In After Effects, a designer might use time*360 to rotate a wheel infinitely. Bodymovin will ignore this, requiring the designer to create a 1-second loop cycle or use the Lottie API to manually drive rotation.