# LottieFiles Animation Workflows — guide skill for animation & motion graphics

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Create, edit and export animation documents through LottieFiles Creator's Engine tools (pre-release).

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Animation & motion graphics](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/animation.md)
- **Slug:** `lottiefiles-animation-workflows`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** LottieFiles (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/LottieFiles/creator-agent-plugin/tree/main/skills/animation-workflows
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** LottieFiles account, LottieFiles Creator MCP server (endpoint not public yet)
- **Cost:** Needs a LottieFiles account; endpoint not yet public
- **Adoption:** 1 installs, 2 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Create, edit, save, export, or manage an animation document with installed Engine tools. Use when the user asks to build or change an animation, export a file, or check an async Engine job.

## Use when

- Build or change an animation
- Export a file
- Check an async Engine job

## Not for

- Hosts without the LottieFiles Creator MCP server connected

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add LottieFiles/creator-agent-plugin && claude plugin install lottiefiles-creator@lottiefiles`
- Codex: `codex plugin marketplace add LottieFiles/creator-agent-plugin && codex plugin add lottiefiles-creator@lottiefiles`
- Gemini CLI: `gemini extensions install https://github.com/LottieFiles/creator-agent-plugin`

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lottiefiles-animation-workflows.mp4 — Animations an agent built in Lottie Creator through the Creator MCP (the plugin's Engine tools): a gradient-column loop, its prompt card, then a dot-matrix 'FABLE' animation (credit: LottieFiles (@LottieFiles), https://x.com/LottieFiles/status/2105125940368146824)

## 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.