Getting started
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To get started creating animations for Lottie in After Effects you'll need a few things
Get the latest After Effects from Creative Cloud
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Download and install the latest version of the Bodymovin Extension for After Effects. Detailed instructions
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Download the Lottie app on the
, or the Lottie preview app on the
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All of these goodies are Highly recommended. They arent essential, because you can still create for Lottie without them. But your workflow will be significantly faster and better with these extra tools.
After you're all setup with those three things, check out our . Since not all After Effects features are supported see our . Lastly check out some workflow overviews in our or our
by is the ideal Illustrator to After Effects workflow. It is an extension for After Effects and Illustrator that helps get artwork back and forth between the two programss. "Think of Overlord as a way to use Adobe Illustrator as a drawing plugin for After Effects." -Lester Banks.
is a fantastic tool created by for After Effects that helps in the managing of shape layers.
is another amazing new tool from and the team. It assists in bringing artwork from Sketch to After Effects
made by converts bezier shapes to parametric shapes. Its super helpful when you have an illustrator file that has elipses or rectangles as paths, and you need them converted to the parametric shapes with size controls etc.
