Add a keyframe

To add a keyframe, you need to make sure you are first in Animate mode using the toggle at the top centre of your editor. In animate mode, you can change the properties of your layer at each point in time to animate it.

Auto-animate

Lottielab uses auto-animate by default when in animate mode.

• Go to your timeline

• Drag the playhead at a point in time where there's no keyframes.

• Change any of the properties on your layer to create a new keyframe at this point. E.g Size, Fill or Position.

This means that you only need to move your playhead to a point in time, then change any of the layer's properties at each point in time to create an animation.

'Add Keyframe' button

You can also add/set a keyframe at a point in time

• Go to your timeline

• Drag the playhead at a point in time where there's no keyframes, you'll see the + button show up on the playhead once you do so.
• Click the + button.

This allows to also set a keyframe at that point without making any changes to the layer, but you're free to change the layer properties in these keyframes too if you wish.

Setting a keyframe is useful when trying to keep a layer's properties constant for a specific amount of time before animating it again.