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Designer - *showing an animation made with after effects* Lets add this really cool animation in our website

Me - Actually that will be very difficult with plain CSS. We will have to use some heavy animation libraries, and we don’t have that much time for the project.

*next day*
Designer - Found a better animation
*shows another animation*

Me - *awkwardly* This is more difficult to implement than the previous one

*next day*
Designer - What about this one
*shows yet another difficult animation*

Me - *ashamed and questioning my skills* ummm....

Designer - you know what, just add fade-in-out

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  • 25
    A lot of super heavy animation are beautiful but useless and take too much time to create and load.. not to mention a lot of ppl are just confused seeing complex animation
  • 8
    @Jakuho I wish designers could understand this
  • 5
    For my last website, the dude gave me a neat preloader.

    Problem: It is full screen.
    He would never leave away or change the animation. It looks damn sexy tbh.

    So although I complained and wanted an svg animation, he gave me gif file. Okay, fine. I inserted it and in the end the dude complained that it didn't run smoothly in his browser [only runs smooth in chrome - if your internet is fast enough].

    I told him that I needed another animation type (svg, css too difficult!) and now I'm at least waiting for a mp4 and I hope that it runs more smoothly
  • 2
    Just add the animation as flash.

    Kidding lol
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  • 7
    Fyi you can export animations as svg from after effects with a plugin called bodymotion(I think). They seem pretty performant and small from what Ive seen. Maybe worth checking it out
  • 1
    @musician damn! Gotta try this!
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