# dotLottie Web — guide skill for animation & motion graphics

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Ship Lottie animations on the web with dotLottie: package choice, workers, state machines, theming, slots.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Animation & motion graphics](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/animation.md)
- **Slug:** `dotlottie-web`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** LottieFiles (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/LottieFiles/dotlottie-web
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Node.js, @lottiefiles/dotlottie-web or @lottiefiles/dotlottie-react
- **Cost:** Free — open-source runtime (MIT)
- **Adoption:** 123 installs, 928 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Implements Lottie and dotLottie animations with `@lottiefiles/dotlottie-web` and `@lottiefiles/dotlottie-react` in vanilla JS, React and Next.js. It covers choosing a package, `.lottie` versus `.json`, Web Workers, state machines for interactivity, theming, dynamic slot overrides and performance practices.

## Use when

- Playing Lottie or dotLottie files in a web app
- Interactive Lottie with state machines
- Theming or swapping content in an animation

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add LottieFiles/dotlottie-web --skill dotlottie-web -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add LottieFiles/dotlottie-web --skill dotlottie-web -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add LottieFiles/dotlottie-web --skill dotlottie-web -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add LottieFiles/dotlottie-web --skill dotlottie-web -a gemini-cli`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/dotlottie-web.mp4 — Output of the repo's web-node example: a Lottie animation (flame to heart to splat) rendered frame by frame with dotLottie Web and saved as a GIF (credit: LottieFiles, https://github.com/LottieFiles/dotlottie-web/tree/main/examples/web-node)

## More animation & motion graphics skills

- [Day in My Life](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-day-in-my-life.md): A 60–75 s hand-drawn ink film of your agent's day with you, built from local Claude Code history, scored for strings.
- [p5 Paint Animation](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-p5-paint-animation.md): Handwriting that writes itself, photos that paint themselves and clips repainted as living paintings, in p5.js code.
- [Session Story](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/hyperframes-session-story.md): A 40–70 s watercolor film of a typical session with your agent, told in your real messages, with its own score.
- [Remotion Markup](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/remotion-markup.md): Write Remotion markup that animates well: timing, transitions, motion blur, effects, audio, fonts and 3D.
- [Motion AI Kit](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/motion-ai-kit.md): Write production-grade UI animation with Motion or CSS: best practices, docs search, springs, perf audits.
- [Motion Design](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/lottiefiles-motion-design.md): Animate with intent: timing, easing, choreography and Disney principles for UI and motion graphics.