UFO Camping Scene

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!

4 years ago