Lottie greatly enhances the descriptive capabilities of animations and has excellent use cases in data visualization storytelling.

In G2, you can integrate Lottie into the canvas through @antv/g-lottie-player. It also provides simple animation control methods such as play, pause, and jumping to specific moments or frames. Once added to the canvas, you can manipulate them like basic graphics.

Getting Started

First, install the @antv/g-lottie-player player:

npm install @antv/g-lottie-player --save

After the canvas is initialized and the Lottie file is loaded, you can create a Lottie animation object and render it to the canvas to get a Group. You can then transform it arbitrarily, such as scaling or moving it to a specific location:

import { loadAnimation } from '@antv/g-lottie-player';

(async () => {
  // Get canvas from context
  const { canvas } = chart.getContext();
  await canvas.ready;

  // Load Lottie file
  const lottieJSON = await fetch(
    'https://mdn.alipayobjects.com/huamei_qa8qxu/afts/file/A*C9f6TaadHikAAAAAAAAAAAAADmJ7AQ',
  ).then((res) => res.json());

  // Create animation
  const animation = loadAnimation(lottieJSON, { loop: true, autoplay: true });
  // Render to canvas to get Group container
  const wrapper = animation.render(canvas);
  // Manipulate the container arbitrarily, e.g., move to a specific position
  wrapper.scale(0.5);
  wrapper.translate(160, 100);
})();

The effect is as follows:

For more animation control options, please refer to: Lottie Animation Documentation.