<s>
Lottie	B-Application
is	O
a	O
file	O
format	O
for	O
vector	O
graphics	O
animation	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
named	O
after	O
Charlotte	O
"	O
Lotte	O
"	O
Reiniger	O
,	O
a	O
German	O
pioneer	O
of	O
silhouette	O
animation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lottie	B-Application
is	O
based	O
in	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
but	O
Lottie	B-Application
files	O
use	O
keys	O
of	O
1	O
–	O
2	O
characters	O
in	O
length	O
and	O
are	O
not	O
readable	O
by	O
humans	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
also	O
include	O
raster	B-Algorithm
graphic	I-Algorithm
elements	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2015	O
-	O
Hernan	O
Torrisi	O
released	O
a	O
plugin	O
named	O
Bodymovin	O
for	O
the	O
animation	O
software	O
Adobe	B-Operating_System
After	I-Operating_System
Effects	I-Operating_System
that	O
serialized	O
animations	O
as	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
to	O
be	O
rendered	O
at	O
runtime	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
some	O
but	O
not	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
features	O
of	O
the	O
internal	O
format	O
of	O
After	B-Operating_System
Effects	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
Torrisi	O
released	O
the	O
a	O
renderer	O
for	O
the	O
format	O
with	O
a	O
JavaScript	B-Language
based	O
player	O
for	O
modern	O
browsers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2017	O
-	O
it	O
was	O
the	O
work	O
of	O
engineers	O
Brandon	O
Withrow	O
(	O
iOS	O
)	O
,	O
Gabriel	O
Peal	O
(	O
Android	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
Leland	O
Richardson	O
(	O
React	O
Native	O
)	O
along	O
with	O
lead	O
animator	O
Salih	O
Abdul-Karim	O
at	O
AirBnB	O
that	O
saw	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
Lottie	B-Application
libraries	O
to	O
render	O
the	O
animations	O
in	O
different	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2018	O
-	O
Microsoft	O
and	O
the	O
.NET	O
Foundation	O
released	O
a	O
library	O
for	O
rendering	O
Lottie	B-Application
on	O
Windows	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
2019	O
-	O
further	O
support	O
for	O
Lottie	B-Application
was	O
by	O
Qt	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
a	O
QML	O
API	O
for	O
rendering	O
Lottie	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Later	O
that	O
same	O
year	O
,	O
Samsung	B-Application
released	O
rLottie	O
which	O
is	O
a	O
platform	O
independent	O
C++	O
-based	O
renderer	O
for	O
Lottie	B-Application
,	O
and	O
added	O
Lottie	B-Application
support	O
in	O
Tizen	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Python	B-Language
framework	O
to	O
work	O
with	O
the	O
format	O
was	O
also	O
released	O
this	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
open-source	O
file	O
format	O
combines	O
multiple	O
Lottie	B-Application
files	O
and	O
all	O
their	O
supporting	O
resources	O
into	O
a	O
single	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
the	O
dotLottie	O
file	O
format	O
was	O
proposed	O
as	O
a	O
standard	O
way	O
to	O
pack	O
Lottie	B-Application
files	O
with	O
other	O
resources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
file	O
is	O
actually	O
a	O
zip	B-General_Concept
file	I-General_Concept
compressed	O
with	O
the	O
deflate	B-Algorithm
method	O
.	O
</s>
