I know you guys are really busy over at Airbnb, but thank you so much for coming on to talk with me. Let's jump in.īrandon and Salih, I want to say thank you for taking time. It's an awesome conversation with two awesome dudes, and I hope you get a ton out of it. We also talk about the role of motion design at a company like Airbnb. We dig into all the details of how the tool works and why it's needed. They're part of a team that brought Lottie to life. Brandon, who studied animation at SCAD, somehow finds himself with the title of Senior IOS Developer. Salih is a motion designer who did time in New York freelancing for plenty of top studios before ending up working for Airbnb as a senior designer and animator. You're probably thinking "Why is Airbnb making tools like this? Why does Airbnb even worry about stuff like this? Do they have motion designers at Airbnb?" The answers to all of these questions are coming in this interview with two really amazing dudes, Salih Abdul Kareem and Brandon Withrow. Lottie comes from a team based out of Airbnb.
#Flinto path animation code#
One of the newest tools on the scene is an open source code library called Lottie which helps translate After Effects animations into code that can be used on multiple platforms like IOS, Android, and React which is for web apps. Thankfully, there are individuals out there trying to make it easier to create animations for interactive uses. Up until recently, it's pretty much how in-app animation has been handled. Then squash and stretch would be handled by hand coding bezier handle coordinates.
Then you'd type in precise pixel values for position, and then you'd write a function to ease the y-position of the circle over time and then have some if-then statements to check if the ball is rising or falling.
First, you'd define how a circle gets drawn. You open After Effects to animate something - let's say like a ball bounce - but instead of having a nice graphic interface to use with key frames and curve editors and a nice timeline, you actually had to type in code for every single thing that you wanted to happen. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher!
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