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Posted this because I wanted to start a discussion on the ecosystem and workflows around Lottie and animations on the web. Here are some alternative programs I

Posted this because I wanted to start a discussion on the ecosystem and workflows around Lottie and animations on the web. Here are some alternative programs I found that can export Lottie files: https://www.haikuanimator.com/ https://www.haikuanimator.com/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/

gresrun 5y ago
Skottie: Lottie player using the Skia graphics library[0][1] Skia powers Google Chrome[2], Flutter, & Fuchia[3]. [0]: https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/ https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/ [1]: https://skottie.skia.org/ https://skottie.skia.org/ [2]: https://skia.org/ https://skia.org/ [3]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/flutter/ https://skia.org/docs/dev/flutter/
jawishhameed 5y ago
We have a plugin for Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional) that exports to Lottie, similar to the plugin for After Effects. It's pretty rough at the moment though with many Animate features not supported. https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/animate https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/animate PS: I work for LottieFiles and built the plugin.
kanwisher 5y ago
Just started looking at Lottie recently, the stuff is awesome
creakingstairs 5y ago
I remember googling for tools that can export to Lottie that are not AE and not coming up with much. Thank you for this list!
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  Same here, only reason I didn't pursue Lottie was because of AE. How's the non AE ecosystem for Lottie?
- josefrichter 5y ago
  I think the initial reason for Lottie was to actually get AE animations to web. AE is very popular among designers to create some avant-garde UI ideas. The problem was 99% of them were absolutely impossible to implement with existing tech. Lottie was one of the steps to make at least some simple stuff real. By avant-garde stuff I mean for example this guy’s work, he’s a killer: https://dribbble.com/glebich https://dribbble.com/glebich
nyanpasu64 5y ago
Haiku Animator is sadly an Electron app, with no relation to Haiku Vector Icon Format.
kall 5y ago
Here‘s another one: https://createwithflow.com https://createwithflow.com
8toast 5y ago
Cavalry can export Lottie files: https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/ https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/
- goforbg 5y ago
  Seems it's only possible with their pro version.
goforbg 5y ago
Wow! I thought this just wasn't possible without AE or Haiku. Thanks a lot for linking Glaxnimate.
makomk 5y ago
Recent versions of Synfig can apparently export to Lottie too, with some limitations, but that was mostly designed for anime-imspired character animation rather than UI stuff and I'm not sure all the features intended for animating characters works correctly.

gresrun 5y ago

Skottie: Lottie player using the Skia graphics library[0][1] Skia powers Google Chrome[2], Flutter, & Fuchia[3]. [0]: https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/ https://skia.org/docs/user/modules/skottie/ [1]: https://skottie.skia.org/ https://skottie.skia.org/ [2]: https://skia.org/ https://skia.org/ [3]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/flutter/ https://skia.org/docs/dev/flutter/

jawishhameed 5y ago

We have a plugin for Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional) that exports to Lottie, similar to the plugin for After Effects. It's pretty rough at the moment though with many Animate features not supported. https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/animate https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/animate PS: I work for LottieFiles and built the plugin.

kanwisher 5y ago

Just started looking at Lottie recently, the stuff is awesome

creakingstairs 5y ago

I remember googling for tools that can export to Lottie that are not AE and not coming up with much. Thank you for this list!

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Same here, only reason I didn't pursue Lottie was because of AE. How's the non AE ecosystem for Lottie?
josefrichter 5y ago
I think the initial reason for Lottie was to actually get AE animations to web. AE is very popular among designers to create some avant-garde UI ideas. The problem was 99% of them were absolutely impossible to implement with existing tech. Lottie was one of the steps to make at least some simple stuff real. By avant-garde stuff I mean for example this guy’s work, he’s a killer: https://dribbble.com/glebich https://dribbble.com/glebich

nyanpasu64 5y ago

Haiku Animator is sadly an Electron app, with no relation to Haiku Vector Icon Format.

kall 5y ago

Here‘s another one: https://createwithflow.com https://createwithflow.com

8toast 5y ago

Cavalry can export Lottie files: https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/ https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/

goforbg 5y ago
Seems it's only possible with their pro version.

goforbg 5y ago

Wow! I thought this just wasn't possible without AE or Haiku. Thanks a lot for linking Glaxnimate.

makomk 5y ago

Recent versions of Synfig can apparently export to Lottie too, with some limitations, but that was mostly designed for anime-imspired character animation rather than UI stuff and I'm not sure all the features intended for animating characters works correctly.