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Animation Formats

Join us in dissecting the DNA of design and animation formats. Explore our articles to learn about the various formats to help you decide which is the best format for you.

10 articles

Lottie vs Raster Animations

Working with Lottie Animations

12 May 2020

6 min read

Lottie vs Raster Animations

A technical comparison of Lottie and raster animations.

How to Optimize Lottie Files for Faster Page Load Speeds

Working with Lottie Animations

18 Oct 2022

4 min read

How to Optimize Lottie Files for Faster Page Load Speeds

Here are three ways to reduce the size of your Lottie animations for faster load speeds.

What’s the Difference Between PNG, SVG and Lottie File Formats?

Working with Lottie Animations

19 Apr 2022

7 min read

What’s the Difference Between PNG, SVG and Lottie File Formats?

Here’s how they compare, and when you might use each file type.

What’s the point in converting an SVG to Lottie?

Working with Lottie Animations

6 Jul 2020

3 min read

What’s the point in converting an SVG to Lottie?

Building apps often means duplication of assets for iOS and Android, but what if you only needed one asset for both?

SVG to Lottie: the what, the why, and the how

Working with Lottie Animations

6 Jul 2020

3 min read

SVG to Lottie: the what, the why, and the how

SVG to Lottie: What it is, why you should do it, and how to convert files from SVG to Lottie.

Development Update Of The dotLottie Format

Working with Lottie Animations

12 Jan 2024

2 min read

Development Update Of The dotLottie Format

Explore the new features on the dotLottie formats

Why Use Lottie

Working with Lottie Animations

21 Jan 2020

4 min read

Why Use Lottie

A lightweight animated graphics format that solves your problems.

Lottie vs. GIF: Choosing the Right Animation for You

Working with Lottie Animations

29 Oct 2021

5 min read

Lottie vs. GIF: Choosing the Right Animation for You

The two most popular web animation formats, Lottie and GIF, collide head-on. This blog will focus on the 5 most important parameters to tell you who's the boss!

dotLottie - v2.4.0 State Machine Support

Working with Lottie Animations

14 Sept 2023

6 min read

dotLottie - v2.4.0 State Machine Support

A powerful interactive configuration!

Kicking off the documentation of the Lottie JSON object

Working with Lottie Animations

1 Jun 2021

5 min read

Kicking off the documentation of the Lottie JSON object

To build the tools to work with Lottie, one needs to understand the structure of the Lottie JSON object, the issues, and the solutions in developing Lottie tools. Karam Ali, the Full-Stack Developer at LottieFiles, highlights things that developers need to know to grow the Lottie tooling eco-system.