LottieFiles, a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised a Series A of $9 million. The round was led by M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, with participation from returning investor 500 ...

Lottie animations are everywhere. The JSON-based file format, first introduced as an open source library by Airbnb engineers, can now be seen in the top 500 iOS and Android apps, said LottieFiles ...

GIFs are widely used in social media, messaging apps, marketing, and web design. They are simple, lightweight, and expressive ...

Cartoon-style videos have a unique power to engage audiences across all age groups and demographics. They simplify complex ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

Videos are one of the most forms of online entertainment. A critical aspect of videos is how they make complicated subjects much easier to understand; this is done through the whiteboard animation ...

The looping animations known as graphics interchange format quickly became a staple of the internet, although the pronunciation of ‘GIF’ was a frequent subject of debate. By Amanda Holpuch and Neil ...

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...