My team is focused on building tooling every day. There’s plenty of stuff we haven’t shown off yet, but I’d hope that almost everything will at least be written about, but ideally open sourced too. Whilst Lottie was developed outside of our team, I think it’s representative of the kinds of projects we love. We also have a Design Tools team at Airbnb (source: I’m on it. (I spent about a year maintaining a proprietary ActionScript library that would render AfterEffects animations - not dissimilar to Lottie, in fact, except almost certainly a whole lot worse, especially the bits I wrote given that there are probably some horses who understand AE better than I did.) I very much admire people who are adept with it, and sometimes when I watch the opening sequences in films, or certain types of adverts on television, I can even imagine how they might have achieved it with AE - but for me it was a great relief when I never had to use the damn thing again. I don't know what it was, but I always seemed to end up in some interminable state that I could never get back out of without quitting the whole damn thing, or I could never make the timeline behave itself (I never had this problem with Flash), or. I've always been quite proud of my ability to acquire at least a moderate mastery of most software (I can use both vi and emacs!), but I never managed this with AfterEffects.
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