Shake-it-up Saturday is the sixth day of the Written Academy’s 7-Day Writing Sprint. You’re supposed to do something different or shake up your writing environment or whatever. Anything to shake up your writing routine.
Yesterday, when I was writing my post on using CES in the taVNS tragus configuration, I got a notice on my website that I can use Lottie Animations. Curious, I began investigating it as today’s shaking-up my routine. As usual, I began with looking where the founders are from. India and the Maldives. Nice.
Lottie animations are cute. And widely used across major media platforms. I signed up and looked for a brain animation.
I thought this 4-year-old one by Prabhakar Singh was cool. Lottie’s accessibility analyzer said between motion and colours, it’s 59%. I have no idea how to edit the motion — I’m new at this after all — but I chose colours from an accessibility colour website and swapped them. Nope. Lottie’s analyzer said those are worse.
Then I realized it’s looking at the colours against each other, not on the background. I tried again with one of their preset palettes. I also slowed down the motion to half and stopped the looping. Not sure how well this works, though. Still, I like this last one best. Hover your mouse over it to see it animate and loop. I think hovering is the most accessible method to play looping animations.
You have to pay to download. So each of these are linked to their URLs. A fairly large library of free animations, but at the end of the day, there’s payment. Which is good because the Lottie team needs to be supported. But for tiny users like me with no money, it’s the usual challenge of how can I maximize the free parts?
What do you think? Do you like motion? Graphics like these? Which colour palette is your fave?
Now my shake-it-up Saturday portion of the day is over, on to checking if I’m ready to start revising The Soul’s Reckoning next week!
