Have you noticed how animation has taken over our lives? Everywhere you look ― a banner with gradually appearing letters ― a company logo, a short cartoon on the tube, even traffic lights trying to show a moving person on the road. Not to mention websites and social media! There are a lot of them. So many, in fact, that we don't even notice some of them.
Every day, almost everyone clicks a heart or thumbs up on a post, picture, music or article they like. And we don't even realize that even such a small action has its own animation. Not so long ago, things were different.
In the past, adding animations to applications and the web was very problematic. They were heavy, didn't always play correctly and often lost quality. But users were still very demanding when it came to visual effects. So the problem of the weight of high quality images had to be solved somehow.
Studio Lottie took on the task. Lottie is a web development, iOS, Android and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing websites and apps to use animation as easily as a static image. It was created by engineers at Airbnb.