Chapter 4: Move It! Animating Our First Lottie With After Effects

And... here we are! Ready to start our own first animated project in Adobe After Effects! Yes! It has been an exciting journey, and we've learned loads of new words, concepts, and tools. Looking back, it seems like ages ago when we started talking about Lottie, don't you think? Not because of the matter of time, but because we've learned so many new things! In the first part of the book, we learned what Lottie and LottieFiles are, we went through the history and principles of 2D classic animation, and got our hands on the Adobe After Effects working area and main animating features. Now, we are all ready and set to animate our icon.

In this chapter, we are going to go step by step through creating our animated icon. Get ready, as we are going to put everything we've learned so far on the table, all the knowledge we've gained about Lottie, classic animation, and Adobe After Effects. We will...