If you’ve been considering using Lottie animations in your projects. Should you link to them or download and package them with your project?

Storing your files separately and linking them into your projects can give download, and maintenance benefits. One way to do that is using Github.

While Articulate Storyline provides basic animation tools, there is often a lot to be desired. With various brute-force methods, complex animation can be created, but often certain techniques are only realistic in other software. Lottie animations can sometimes bridge that gap.

While working in Evolve Authoring, one technique I applied quite regularly was to replace static graphics with animated ones—Not animated GIFs or videos, however, but Lottie animations—that are often much smaller in file size and much higher quality. This article looks at that process.

Lottie is a tool that helps enable more fluid animation across websites and apps. It’s a great way to get clean, crisp, vector animation into your products.

Embedding Lottie in an html page is often the easiest way to use it in various authoring tools that don’t natively support it.

If you’re not creating your own Lottie animations, where can you get them?