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How to use Lottie animations in Webflow?

Discover the secret to seamlessly adding Lottie animations in Webflow. This guide walks you through each step, helping to bring your web designs to life with stunning, interactive animations.

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Overview

Integrating Lottie animations into Webflow jazzes up your website with dynamic and high-quality visuals, significantly boosting user experience and engagement. Lottie, a nifty library for rendering Adobe After Effects animations in real-time through JSON, keeps things lightweight and interactive. This guide will show how to ready Lottie files, upload them to Webflow, and smoothly nest them into your design. From tweaking animation triggers to ensuring they look good on any device, this guide covers all the necessary steps to make your Webflow site visually compelling with Lottie animations.

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How to use Lottie animations in Webflow?

Step 1: Obtain Your Lottie Animation JSON File

First things first, you need to export your Lottie animation as a JSON file. You can do this from Adobe After Effects using the LottieFiles plugin, or any other app that supports Lottie animations. Easy peasy!

Step 2: Upload the JSON File to Webflow

  1. Open up your Webflow project.
  2. Head over to the "Assets" panel (quick tip: press J to get there fast).
  3. Hit the "Upload" button and pick your Lottie JSON file. Simple, right?

Step 3: Add the Lottie Animation Element

  1. Jump into the Webflow Designer.
  2. From the "Add" panel (shortcut: press A), drag and drop the "Lottie Animation" element onto your canvas. Boom, done!

Step 4: Configure the Lottie Animation

  1. Click on the Lottie animation element you just added.
  2. Go to the "Settings" panel (press D to get there quickly).
  3. In the "Lottie Animation" settings, click on the "Replace" button.
  4. From the "Asset Manager," choose the JSON file you uploaded in Step 2. Easy as pie!

Step 5: Customize Animation Playback

  1. Still in the "Settings" panel, tweak the playback settings for your Lottie animation.
  • Autoplay: Turn this on if you want the animation to start playing automatically.
  • Loop: Turn this on if you want the animation to keep repeating forever.
  1. Adjust the animation speed if you need to. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, you know?

Step 6: Add Interactions (Optional)

  1. Select the Lottie element and open the "Interactions" panel (press H for a shortcut).
  2. Click on the "+ New Interaction" button to create custom animations that react to scroll, hover, or clicks.
  3. Set up the triggers and animations based on what your project needs. Have fun with it!

Step 7: Preview and Publish

  1. Preview your project to make sure the Lottie animation works just the way you want it to.
  2. Once you're happy with it, publish your site by clicking the "Publish" button in the top-right corner of the designer. And there you go!

This guide should help you integrate and customize Lottie animations within Webflow like a pro. Enjoy!

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