Check out Lottie for animated SVG: https://lottie.github.io/
Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
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Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#22Who here is old enough to know that Greensock was actually a flash library?
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#23Check out Lottie for animated SVG: https://lottie.github.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_(file_format)
Lottie handles a different usecase. Lottie is used to port animations from after effects to the web as an svg animation. For this Lottie will use a static json file which is generated beforehand. It uses a quite complex structure and is mere impossible to read as a human. Making dynamic manipulations not feasible.
For dynamic animations gasp is great as you just code the animation in js making it a perfect fit for the web. The creation process can be quite cumbersome though.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#24Check out Lottie for animated SVG: https://lottie.github.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_(file_format)
Rive is better in my experience, much more performant and a nice editor to go along with it.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#25Other fun animation sites:
LLMs are pretty good at this stuff too - just ask the LLM to use one of these resources when making your thing.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#26We loved GSAP and wanted to combine that style of rendering with an event-driven programming model with redux so that we could pass animation events from a backend over a websocket.
Also wanted to keep a bunch of animations on different computers around the world in sync to within ~30ms. Ended up building this library: https://monadical-sas.github.io/redux-time/
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#27Strange announcement
Wasn’t GSAP already free and open source? I remember seeing it years ago!
Is this more capitalism doublespeak?
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#28Yeah, no! GSAP is not open-source → they can pull the rag on you anytime. No need for drama when we can find/generate alternatives.
You're free to use/do as you wish, but GSAP is a remarkably powerful library that benefits from two decades of very smart people optimizing it.
It's very typical for someone to look at something that is only 95% perfect and declare that they could replace it in a few days or weeks, while simply refusing to learn from history (or Joel Spolsky's warnings against the big rewrite).
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#29Strange announcement Wasn’t GSAP already free and open source? I remember seeing it years ago! Is this more capitalism doublespeak?
GSAP has long had a free base library with many advanced features only available on a paid subscription basis.
While free as in beer is welcome, in a past life I was happy to pay to be able to access such a powerful toolkit.
Re: Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
#30Nice development for the library, I've been using it in https://teskooano.space for ThreeJS camera transition - I'll have to check out this new stuff too