Free UFO Camping Scene Animation

Up until now I’ve shared some loaders, icons, characters, etc but this time around I wanted to create something more illustrative. So here’s a bearded guy in his sleeping bag being abducted by aliens! My goal with this was to create a web-only animation that felt fairly detailed without sacrificing file size. I explored using the Gaussian blur effect with Lottie to add glows and shading, which in moderation worked great, but quickly became a performance killer. Instead, I decided to stick with gradients and masks. In the end, this scene landed at 173kb, which is not too shabby!

Up until now I’ve shared some loaders, icons, characters, etc but this time around I wanted to create something more illustrative. So here’s a bearded guy in his sleeping bag being abducted by aliens! My goal with this was to create a web-only animation that felt fairly detailed without sacrificing file size. I explored using the Gaussian blur effect with Lottie to add glows and shading, which in moderation worked great, but quickly became a performance killer. Instead, I decided to stick with gradients and masks. In the end, this scene landed at 173kb, which is not too shabby!