Downside? It doesn’t support every effect. But for UI animation? It’s unbeatable.
Export After Effects animations as JSON. No render farms. No compression artifacts. No “the GIF is too big.”
Bodymovin + Lottie = 🤯
🔧 extensions (ex-manager) → Bodymovin Option 2: Short & Punchy (Instagram / TikTok caption style) Caption:
If you’re an animator or motion designer working with developers, is the most underrated plugin in your toolkit. bodymovin plugin
Use the Demo Composition button in the plugin to preview what will actually export.
✅ Vector quality at any scale ✅ File sizes 500-1000% smaller than GIFs ✅ Full transparency & interactivity ✅ No video codec nightmares Downside
Use the Preview inside Bodymovin before exporting. If it looks wrong there, it’ll look wrong in production. Option 4: For developers (more technical) Bodymovin → JSON export from AE. Lottie → runtime renderer.