Guide
Guides & comparisons
Guides and comparisons on getting After Effects animation onto the web — the available methods, their tradeoffs, and how to choose.
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How to put an After Effects animation on a website
Six real ways to get AE motion onto a page — video, GIF, sprites, Lottie, hand-code, or exported CSS — with weights, tradeoffs, and how to choose.
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The best Lottie alternative for web animation
The honest options — exported CSS, video, hand-code — compared by weight, JavaScript, and editability. When to switch, and when to keep Lottie.
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Lottie vs CSS animation
A live side-by-side you can weigh yourself: the same motion in a real Lottie player and in exported CSS — JavaScript cost, file weight, editability, performance.
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Lottie limitations: what doesn't survive the export
Glow, drop shadow, blend modes, luma mattes and expressions don't export from After Effects — and the JSON grows with every second. What's dropped, and what to do.
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