Lottie Animation Guide
Master Lottie animations with our guides covering formats, licensing, export workflows, implementation, and optimization — from the basics to advanced techniques.
Getting Started with Lottie Animations
Learn the fundamentals of Lottie animations and how to implement them in your projects.
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Read article →Web Implementation Guide
Complete guide to implementing Lottie animations in web applications using various frameworks.
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Read article →Mobile Development with Lottie
Implementing Lottie animations in iOS and Android applications for smooth mobile experiences.
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Read article →Troubleshooting Common Issues
Solutions to common problems and performance issues when working with Lottie animations.
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Read article →Best Practices and Tips
Professional tips and industry best practices for creating and optimizing Lottie animations.
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Read article →Lottie vs GIF vs Video vs WebP: Choosing the Right Format
A practical, size-and-quality comparison of animation formats so you pick the right one for the job instead of defaulting to GIF.
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Read article →Where to Find Free & Licensed Lottie Animations
A guide to sourcing Lottie animations legally, and understanding the license attached to each file before you ship it in a product.
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Read article →Exporting Clean Lottie Files from After Effects and Figma
Export settings, common pitfalls, and a pre-export checklist for getting well-formed, compact Lottie files out of After Effects and Figma.
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Read article →Understanding dotLottie (.lottie): Format Internals and When to Use It
What actually lives inside a .lottie file, why it can be smaller than raw JSON, and when to reach for it instead.
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Read article →Scroll-Triggered and Interactive Lottie Animations
How to play, scrub, and reverse Lottie animations in response to scroll position, hover, and click instead of just autoplaying on load.
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Read article →Lazy Loading Lottie Animations Without Hurting Core Web Vitals
How to defer, size, and load Lottie animations so they improve a page rather than tank its Cumulative Layout Shift or Largest Contentful Paint scores.
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Read article →Reading Raw Lottie JSON: A Field Guide to the Bodymovin Schema
A tour of what's actually inside a Lottie JSON file — layers, shapes, transforms, and keyframes — for when you need to debug or hand-edit one.
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Read article →Lottie Accessibility: Motion Preferences, ARIA, and Screen Readers
Making Lottie animations respect motion sensitivity, work with assistive technology, and stay clear of WCAG seizure-risk thresholds.
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Read article →Using Lottie Safely in Server-Rendered React and Next.js Apps
Why Lottie players crash during server-side rendering, and the dynamic-import and client-boundary patterns that avoid it.
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Read article →Designing Micro-interactions: Animated Icons and Button States with Lottie
How morphing icon animations (play/pause, like/unlike, menu/close) are actually built and triggered from a single Lottie file.
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Read article →Lottie vs Rive: Choosing an Animation Format for Interactive Apps
How Rive differs from Lottie for building interactive, state-driven animations, and when the switch is (and isn’t) worth it.
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Read article →Why Lottie Doesn't Work in Email and What to Use Instead
Email clients block the JavaScript Lottie depends on entirely — here’s why, and how to ship an animated fallback that actually renders.
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Read article →Lottie for App Onboarding, Splash Screens, and Empty States
UX guidance for using Lottie animation where it actually helps — and where it just adds friction — in onboarding flows, splash screens, and empty states.
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Read article →Visual Regression Testing for Lottie Animations
How to catch unintended visual changes in Lottie animations automatically — including after running them through an optimizer.
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