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About Lottielab
Lottielab is a free Figma plugin published by Alistair Thomson in 2023. It works in Figma Design and has 90,860 users and 1,571 likes on the Figma Community. It ranks #9 in Animation on our lists.
In the developer's words
Lottielab is the most comprehensive tool to animate your Figma designs, add interactive components and export seamlessly to Lottie, GIF, 4K .mp4 or .tgs for your websites, apps and marketing purposes.
🪄 Features:
- Animate Figma Designs: Easily turn static designs into animations with just a few clicks. Animate your user interfaces for apps, websites, landing pages and micro-interactions and marketing assets for social media, ads or video.
- Add Interactivity:Transform your static designs into interactive animations—no coding required. Add states and events and create production-ready interactive animations that are perfect for web, mobile apps, and more.
- Preserve Design Integrity:The plugin maintains the structure of your Figma file. Supports gradients, masks, text, drop shadows, blur, vector paths, shapes, frames, images and more! Your designs will look just as they do in Figma.
- Preview Animations:See real-time previews of your animations within Figma before exporting.
- Multiple Export Formats:Export to video (up to 4k .mp4), GIF, Lottie JSON and .tgs!
- Handoff your animation directly to developers, marketing team or other stakeholders.
🛠️ How to Use:
- Install the Lottielab Figma Plugin from the Figma community. Select the design element you want to animate. This could be anything from buttons to icons or even an entire design.
- Export to the Lottielab editor.
- Animate or add Interactivity. Use Lottielab’s built-in features to add states, triggers, and events like hover or click effects.
- Export your animations: Once your animation is ready, export it in your preferred format (Lottie JSON for developers, GIF, or MP4 for marketing and websites).
Resources
- Tutorial: How to Turn Any Figma Design into an Interactive Animation.
- Connect with other designers in our Discord community.
🗣️ Feedback & Support: We'd love to hear from you! Reach out for comments, inquiries, or assistance at support@lottielab.com.
What's new
Version 13 · released Nov 13, 2024
- ❏ Drop shadow & Blur support!
Permissions and privacy
Network access
Lottielab can only connect to the 5 domains declared in its manifest: www.lottielab.com, api.lottielab.com, metrics.lottielab.com, fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.
- www.lottielab.com
- api.lottielab.com
- metrics.lottielab.com
- fonts.googleapis.com
- fonts.gstatic.com
Extra permissions
- Reads your Figma name and avatar
Read from the plugin's published manifest.
Where Lottielab ranks
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Lottielab FAQ
What does Lottielab do?
Animate your Figma designs, add Interactivity and export to Lottie, GIF or mp4. It's a Figma plugin by Alistair Thomson that runs in Figma Design.
Is Lottielab free?
Yes. Lottielab is free to install and run from the Figma Community, with no paid tier listed.
Is Lottielab safe to use?
Figma plugins can only reach the internet through domains listed in their manifest. Lottielab can only connect to the 5 domains declared in its manifest: www.lottielab.com, api.lottielab.com, metrics.lottielab.com, fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. As with any plugin, check the developer's privacy policy before using it on client work.
How do I install Lottielab?
Open it on the Figma Community, or search for it in the Actions menu (Cmd/Ctrl + K) inside any file you can edit. See how to install Figma plugins.
What are the best alternatives to Lottielab?
By user count, the closest alternatives are LottieFiles, Figmotion and Jitter. Compare all of them on the best Figma plugins for animation.
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