In this blog, discover the top 10 LottieFiles most loved features and how the community of over 8 million designers and developers are making the most of them.
1) Access to 100,000+ free Lottie animations & 250,000+ premium Lottie animations
LottieFiles is now the world's largest, ready-to-use, highly customizable animation library. You can find animations for every industry and every use case imaginable. Our editorial team adds new animations to your library every day.
Our special thanks go to the entire Lottie community for contributing to this ever-growing library. We are in awe of your creativity.
We also added premium Lottie animation to our LottieFiles platform. Personalize these 250,000+ animations to match your brand's colors and style.
Easily take them into your favorite design tool or export them in various formats, including Lottie JSON, dotLottie, MP4, WebM, MOV, and GIF.
2) Create production-ready Lottie animations within Figma
Creating motion graphics has never been easier than with the LottieFiles plugin for Figma. This powerful tool enables you to craft production-ready animations, whether you're combining single or multi-frame animations or using popular animated presets.
Key supporting features that users adore include trim paths, boolean operations, gradients, nested frame groups, rotation, auto layout, and more. And keep an eye out — there are more exciting updates on the way!
Here are some of the many animations that the Figma community created using Figma to Lottie.
3) LottieFiles for Canva
Canva now seamlessly integrates with Lottie!
In collaboration with the amazing team at Canva, we've crafted something extraordinary for you. The LottieFiles for Canva app unlocks access to over 100,000 free, customizable Lottie animations directly within Canva. Elevate your presentations, websites, social media content, and videos with the dynamic power of animations, creating visuals that truly stand out.
We're excited to see the enchanting visuals you'll create this festive season.
4) LottieFiles for Adobe After Affects
Transform your motion design workflow with LottieFiles for Adobe After Effects, now accessible directly within the program. Here's how it streamlines your process and saves you hours:
- Instant Export: Quickly export animations in Lottie JSON or dotLottie formats for easy implementation across web and mobile platforms.
- Real-Time Rendering: See your animations come to life in real-time, allowing you to edit and refine on the fly.
- Optimization Tools: Enhance animation performance with the built-in render graph and manage file sizes effectively using the size preview feature.
- Feature Support Checker: Verify the compatibility of your animations across various players, including web, Android, and iOS.
- One-Click Upload and Share: Share your animations effortlessly with a simple click.
Access to Animations: Access our vast library of over 100,000 free Lottie animations, plus your team's private animation library, all within Adobe After Effects.
Get ready to take your motion designs to the next level with ease and efficiency!
5) Lottie Creator (now in beta) and Lottie Editor
Discover LottieFiles Creator, our web-based tool designed to empower you in crafting high-quality, lightweight, and impactful Lottie animations with ease. Dive into a vast repository of over 8 million icons, illustrations, and Lottie animations, all editable and customizable to fit your needs.
LottieFiles Creator goes beyond simple animation. Create from scratch, access your team's private animation library, make edits, add interactive elements, and much more. It's your one-stop solution for motion design.
For quick and simple edits, the Lottie Editor is your perfect companion. It enables you to apply custom brand color palettes, hide or delete unwanted layers, edit text, swap images, and execute many other modifications with ease.
6) Optimize the Lottie and massively reduce its size
What sets Lottie and dotLottie apart as popular animation formats is their incredibly small size. Lottie animations are ultra-lightweight, being up to 6x smaller than GIFs, leading to faster load times and improved performance.
The new optimization feature takes this a step further, allowing you to reduce the Lottie file size even more. By downloading your animation as an optimized JSON, you can witness a significant size reduction — between 20-80%, depending on the animation style.
For those seeking the utmost in compression, the open-source dotLottie format is the way to go. It's a subset of the Lottie JSON, but as a compressed, zipped version, it can slash the size of the original Lottie by up to an astonishing 80%. These dotLottie files integrate smoothly across web, iOS, and Android platforms using open-source libraries, enhancing their versatility and appeal.
7) Collaborate with your team
LottieFiles proudly stands as the world's largest motion design ecosystem, offering a suite of tools that save countless hours for both designers and developers. Our mission is to make motion design easy and enjoyable for everyone involved.
Every six seconds, a new animation is processed through LottieFiles, attesting to our platform's dynamic use. Here are some of our most popular features:
- Private Workspace for Teams: LottieFiles' workspaces cater to teams of any size and structure. Each workspace includes administrative controls, team member access, and project-specific permission settings.
- File Size Optimization: This feature significantly reduces Lottie file sizes, enhancing performance and speeding up load times.
- Lottie Color Palette: Customize your Lottie animations with your brand's colors or any color palette of your choice.
- Developer Handoff: LottieFiles simplifies animation implementation for developers. The platform provides libraries for web, iOS, Android, and includes a built-in CDN for hosting.
- Cross-Platform Access: Access your team's private animations across various design tools, including Figma, Framer, Canva, Webflow, and more.
- Version History & Source Files: Easily manage different animation versions, restore previous ones as needed, and keep track of AEP and Figma source files, all in one centralized location.
Experience the future of motion design with LottieFiles, where every feature is designed to bring simplicity and fun to the creative process.
8) Embed Lottie Animations anywhere, without Code
One thing our users truly appreciate is the wide range of integrations LottieFiles offers. For designers, popular platforms like Adobe After Effects, Figma, and Canva are at the top of the list, but there's also an array of tools for developers. This means that it’s easy to incorporate your animations into designs or prototypes – there’s no need to switch between tabs or apps to download and import the right file.
Lottie animations have now been integrated into popular platforms like Notion, Wix, Medium, Ghost, and more, bringing the dynamism of motion graphics to your content. To simplify this process, we provide oEmbed support, making it incredibly easy to add animations to these platforms. Often, it's as simple as a copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) action.
Let's walk through a quick example of how you can effortlessly bring a Lottie animation into Notion:
9) Libraries for the web, iOS, Android and more
We have open-sourced many libraries that push the limits of the Lottie file format. As a developer, this means implementing animations easily. Explore libraries for the web, iOS and Android
10) Countless Inspiring stories
At LottieFiles, we're on a mission to unite the design industry and infuse the universal language of joy - motion - into every app, website, design, and platform.
Each week, we showcase how world-renowned design teams from globally recognized brands like Disney, Spotify, Long black, Headspace, Instacart, and more, are innovating with Lottie.
But our spotlight isn't just on the industry giants. It's also on you, the creative force in our community. Your #BuildwithLottie websites, apps, and portfolios don't just celebrate your creativity; they're a beacon of inspiration for millions in our community.
All this is possible because of you!
Thank you for making this year remarkable. It is energizing to connect with this vibrant community of designers, developers, marketers, and motion design fans. In the past many months, we got to interact with over 13,000 of you in person across 20+ countries and hundreds and thousands who joined our events online.
Special thanks to our collaborative partners like Friends of Figma, ADPList, Design Buddies, 10X designers and many more who have been instrumental in bringing the design community together.
We are immensely grateful to you for your support, feedback, and creativity.
As we welcome 2024, we send you our best wishes for a year filled with joy, happiness, and even more success.
We Lottie You and
We are rooting for your success.
