Some platforms to post your animations on the web

This list lists some online platforms and tools that can be used to publish animation works, hoping to help friends who want to display or sell animation works. This list has also been published on Github, welcome to submit PR or leave a message here!

The following platforms are ranked in no particular order:

Rive

Rive supports the creation of interactive and timeline-based animations, which can be widely used in web pages, game engines such as Unity/Unreal, and low-level players such as C#, C, React, and Flutter. In recent years, Rive has become increasingly mature and can handle complete web application UX or longer animations.

Adobe After Effects LottieFiles

Export After Effects’ vector files and animations to JSON format via LottieFiles and play them with players like AirBnB’s open source Lottie player. Its target use case seems to be shorter, smaller animation effects. The previous exporter was Bodymovin, but currently (January 2025) it doesn't seem to work properly in the latest After Effects.

Blend4Web

Blend4Web offers free and commercial licenses for displaying Blender models. It seems to allow some interaction and timeline animation, but it's hard to find good examples.

Marmoset

Marmoset looks like a good 3D asset viewer, but seems to require a fee, although a powerful 3D editor is included in the price. A web search can turn up other similar online players and 3D viewers; some are more niche than others.

HTML/CSS/JavaScript/SVG

You can create very rich web animations directly using web technologies. Sometimes just CSS is enough. There are many examples online. Sometimes libraries like Motion or GASP can help speed up web animations.

Video

Use your favorite app to screen record and post online. You can set your browser to automatically play videos only when the sound is turned off. If you need to do compositing and don't mind some programming, Remotion can convert web animations to MP4 videos, or use its player to play its ReactJS-based files directly in your web browser.

GIF

If the animated clip is short enough, why not try an old-fashioned GIF instead?

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