Lottie Creator 2.0 - After Effects for the web, built on Lottie
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Yes, we're calling it: After Effects for the web. Design vector animations from scratch in your browser, move faster with Motion Copilot AI, wire up interactivity with State Machines, and export production-ready Lottie + dotLottie. No desktop app. No dev handoff.
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Congratulations to the Creator team on this exciting launch! So much time and effort has been put into this jam-packed release, and I cannot wait to see what the community builds!
LottieFiles
@katherine_mumm Thank you. Yes, can't wait to see what creative individuals make with it.
Motion Copilot empowers people like me who don't know motion design, to create and tweak animations easily.
But personally I would vote Motion Systems as the highlight feature. It sounds like a Figma library for motion. And the governance part is usually one of the pain points in team collaboration.
Icons8
Congrats on the launch!
"no dev handoff" is doing a lot of quiet heavy lifting in that tagline. Anyone who's run an animation team knows how much time and how many review rounds get lost in the back-and-forth between motion and engineering before an animation is actually implemented. Baking State Machines and a direct export to production-ready Lottie, dotLottie into the same tool where you're already animating removes a real bottleneck, not just a nice-to-have.
And as someone who still animates hands-on - building vector animation from scratch in the browser, with real curve & easing control instead of a stripped-down "web version" of AE, is the part that actually matters day to day. Most browser tools fake the motion feel. This one holds up on timing and spacing, which is the actual win here.
LottieFiles
@jeyweiss Thank you Eugene, that intersection is what we are interested in; a tools capable enough and yet removing the current bottlenecks. Give it a try and keep us posted.
the editor feels so clean and snappy, especially how you can drop a json file straight into the canvas and immediately tweak animations. honestly that alone saves me a ton of time compared to other tools
Would love to see a built-in performance profiler that shows frame-by-frame render times and file size impact directly in the editor. It would save so much back-and-forth when optimizing animations for different platforms, especially mobile where every kilobyte matters.
Finally a tool that makes handing off animations to devs painless. Loved how the live preview updates as I tweak the JSON, no more exporting and re-uploading.
the workspace itself feels really well considered, like the preview area and the timeline are right where you'd want them. honestly the collaboration angle is what sold me, shipping lotties with a team used to be a mess.
IconScout
my favorite part is how easy it is to iterate; Prompt, tweak, adjust, repeat. It's honestly wild seeing an idea turn into an animation in seconds.
Huge release! As a dev who lacks the time to learn complex image processing software, the Motion Copilot has made it genuinely easier for me get the small little animations that I need in my workflow. Plus, the graph editor is quite neat for fine tuning the easing functions.
Working in Customer Support gives me a front row seat to the feedback, ideas, and creativity of our users. It's incredibly rewarding to see those insights reflected in products like Lottie Creator. Congratulations to the entire team on the launch, I can't wait to continue helping creators make the most of it! 🚀💜