🍭 Lottie & Bodymovin widget for Elementor.

• Installation
• Usage
• Features
• FAQ
  • What is Lottie?
  • How to install bodymovin?
• Bugs & Features
• Credits
• License

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser.

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
2. Navigate to the “Plugins” menu
3. Search for “Animentor – Lottie & Bodymovin for Elementor”
4. Click “Install Now” and WordPress will take it from there
5. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress

1. Upload the entire animentor-lottie-bodymovin-elementor folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress

After installation and activation, you will find the “Lottie” widget under the “General” widgets category of Elementor Page Builder.

• Intuitive UI, everything is configurable directly within Elementor, through the widget’s controls
• Manage and re-use animation data JSON files through the WordPress Media Library
• Works with the latest version of Elementor (does not require Elementor Pro)
• Includes several animation options, allowing you to customize:
  • ⏱ The speed of the animation
  • ▶️ Whether to autoplay on page load
  • ♾ Whether to loop or play once
  • ⏪ Whether to play reversed
  • 🖱 Whether to play on mouse over
  • ⏹⏸⏪ Whether to stop, pause, or reverse on mouse out
• Includes several styling options, allowing you to customize:
  • 📏 The dimensions (width and max width) with responsive controls
  • 🧰 Opacity, CSS filters, borders, and box shadow!

Lottie is a mobile library for Web, and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

Follow one of the options on lottie-web GitHub repository:

Download it from from aescripts.

Get it from the Adobe Exchange App Marketplace.

• Download the ZIP from the lottie-web GitHub repository.
• Extract its content and get the .zxp file from /build/extension
• Use the ZXP installer from aescripts.com.

• Close After Effects.

• Extract the zipped file on build/extension/bodymovin.zxp to the Adobe CEP folder:

  • Windows:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions
    

    or

    C:\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CEP\extensions
    

  • macOS:

    /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/bodymovin
    

    You can open the terminal and type:

    $ cp -R YOURUNZIPEDFOLDERPATH/extension /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/bodymovin
    

    Then, to make sure it was copied correctly, type:

    $ ls /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/bodymovin
    

• Edit the registry key:

  • Windows:

    Open the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Adobe/CSXS.6 and add a key named PlayerDebugMode, of type String, and value 1.

  • macOS:

    Open the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.CSXS.6.plist and add a row with key PlayerDebugMode, of type String, and value 1.

Install the zxp manually following this guide.

Skip directly to “Install third-party extensions”.

Install with Homebrew-adobe:

$ brew tap danielbayley/adobe
$ brew cask install lottie

After installing

• Windows: Go to Edit > Preferences > Scripting & Expressions... > and check on “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network”
• macOS: Go to Adobe After Effects > Preferences > Scripting & Expressions... > and check on “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network”

Old Versions

• Windows: Go to Edit > Preferences > General > and check on “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network”
• macOS: Go to Adobe After Effects > Preferences > General > and check on “Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network”

If you have spotted any bugs, or would like to request additional features from the plugin, please file an issue.

• Plugin developed by over-engineer
• Plugin icon and banner designed by the amazing kwnva

Animentor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

Animentor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Animentor. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.