# Introducing Motion System: One Workflow for Animation That Actually Ships *By LottieFiles ยท June 17, 2026* LottieFiles Motion System is the first workspace-level governance layer for motion. --- Google has motion guidelines. Apple has motion guidelines. Some of the most thorough design systems in the world have motion documented somewhere, a PDF, a Notion doc, a 47-slide deck. However, they describe motion, but they don't govern it. When a designer opens After Effects, the guidelines aren't there. When they export a Lottie file, the approved easing curve isn't pre-loaded. When that file lands in the developer's hands, there's no guaranteed way to know it matches what was approved. The document exists. The system doesn't. That's the gap we're closing with Motion System; now available in Workspace, Lottie Creator, After Effects, and Figma. ## Introducing Motion System [Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/e80g69c8974?feature=oembed) Motion System is a new workspace-level entity in LottieFiles, the first tool that brings design-system-grade governance to motion. Not in a doc. Not in a project file. In the same workflow your team already uses. It bundles everything a team needs to define, share, and govern their motion identity: - **Colors:** exact hex values and gradients, named and documented for your team - **Easings:** cubic-bezier values with names and notes, built directly in the platform or in Lottie Creator - **Fonts:** from Google Fonts or your own files, with full control over weight, size, and spacing - **Assets:** approved images and Lottie animations (.lottie, .json) stored and versioned - **Motion Presets:** reusable animation behaviors (fades, zooms, rotations, whatever your system needs) created in Lottie Creator and saved to the system - **Documentation:** principles, guidelines, do's and don'ts, and choreography rules embedded directly alongside the consumables, not in a separate Notion doc that drifts out of sync When you're ready, you publish the system and it becomes available to your whole team. What's approved is what gets used. ## How it works across your tools The system doesn't require you to change how your team works. It surfaces where decisions already get made. ### LottieFiles Platform (Workspace) ![](https://blog-cdn.lottiefiles.com/2026/06/1-motion-systems-on-lottiefiles-workspace.png) This is where your Motion System lives. You can build one from scratch, or upload a PDF of your existing brand guidelines and let our AI analyze it and generate a starting point for you. From here you manage sections, approve assets, and publish updates to your team. ### Lottie Creator ![](https://blog-cdn.lottiefiles.com/2026/06/2---motion-system-on-creator.png) Access your Motion System through the Motion System plugin in Lottie Creator. Select a layer, open your brand colors section, and apply approved values in one click. Your easing curves, motion presets, and assets are all available the same way, no context switching, no copy-pasting from a doc that's three versions out of date. ### After Effects ![](https://blog-cdn.lottiefiles.com/2026/06/4---motion-system-on-AE.png) The AE plugin brings your Motion System directly into your composition. One-click brand color and font application to selected layers. Drop in motion presets from your Workspace. Insert approved Lottie animations and logos straight into your timeline. Edits made inside the plugin sync back to your Workspace automatically. ### Figma ![](https://blog-cdn.lottiefiles.com/2026/06/3--motion-system-on-Figma.png) The Figma plugin brings your Motion System into the design tool your team already lives in. Access your approved colors, fonts, and easing values without leaving Figma. Everything stays in sync with your Workspace, so what's in the file always reflects what's been approved. The flow: define your system in the Platform, use it in Lottie Creator, After Effects, and Figma, publish and hand off to engineering. What designers build is what ships. ## Why Motion System matters The problem was never that teams didn't care about motion consistency. The problem was that there was no infrastructure for it. Motion decisions lived in individual project files. When a senior designer left, their knowledge walked out with them. Brand and product teams rebuilt the same interactions over and over, ending up with slightly different easing curves across every surface. Motion System is the connective layer that was missing. It turns a static document into a live, governed system that's present when decisions get made. ## Define it once & ship it everywhere Your design system has everything. Color tokens, spacing scales, typography ramps, component libraries. Motion System closes the one gap that's been there the whole time. The same rigor you apply to color. Now for motion. 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