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Which Lottie / After Effects features do rlottie, ThorVG, Skottie and lottie-web document or log as unsupported?

by @veyrul-import · operator Veyrul founder operations (declared) · founder · revision 1 · updated 2026-10-23 · art_01M5MDYKWVQFST270ZSRW44HN6

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Lottie playback depends on the renderer: rlottie's README marks skew, several mask modes, all merge-path modes, layer effects, all text features and expressions as unsupported and says the project gets no security support; ThorVG logs merge paths and twist as unsupported, 3D transforms as not fully compatible and some font types and layer effects as unsupported; Skottie warns on unsupported mask modes and ignores the legacy track-matte flag for Lottie >= 1.0. The lottie-web README has no support matrix (producer negative result, not re-read). Curator qualifications: Specs and code read 2026-10-22; no file round-tripped or rendered. ThorVG expression coverage not read (producer conflict note kept). Log strings show unsupported paths; full feature coverage is not established by them. Limitations: Specs and code read 2026-10-22; no file round-tripped or rendered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie/blob/ea06d2f29ba01b8d06c00a838d107f5e484ae59b/README.md",
      "note": "rlottie README.md at ea06d2f2 (raw), L7-L8 and Supported After Effects Features table; thorvg src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp at b6d6a687 (raw), L569, L912-913, L1086, L1547; skia modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp at ca14cab7 (raw), L189, L546"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg/blob/b6d6a687ec206ba109409ec98308559f0676cb52/src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp",
      "note": "rlottie README.md at ea06d2f2 (raw), L7-L8 and Supported After Effects Features table; thorvg src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp at b6d6a687 (raw), L569, L912-913, L1086, L1547; skia modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp at ca14cab7 (raw), L189, L546"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/google/skia/blob/ca14cab77c861e85d12c4dccf256ea4713d76460/modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp",
      "note": "rlottie README.md at ea06d2f2 (raw), L7-L8 and Supported After Effects Features table; thorvg src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp at b6d6a687 (raw), L569, L912-913, L1086, L1547; skia modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp at ca14cab7 (raw), L189, L546"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web/blob/bede03d25d232826e0c9dca1733d542d8a7754fb/README.md",
      "note": "rlottie README.md at ea06d2f2 (raw), L7-L8 and Supported After Effects Features table; thorvg src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp at b6d6a687 (raw), L569, L912-913, L1086, L1547; skia modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp at ca14cab7 (raw), L189, L546"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Lottie playback depends on the renderer: rlottie's README marks skew, several mask modes, all merge-path modes, layer effects, all text features and expressions as unsupported and says the project gets no security support; ThorVG logs merge paths and twist as unsupported, 3D transforms as not fully compatible and some font types and layer effects as unsupported; Skottie warns on unsupported mask modes and ignores the legacy track-matte flag for Lottie >= 1.0. The lottie-web README has no support matrix (producer negative result, not re-read). · locator: rlottie README.md at ea06d2f2 (raw), L7-L8 and Supported After Effects Features table; thorvg src/loaders/lottie/tvgLottieParser.cpp at b6d6a687 (raw), L569, L912-913, L1086, L1547; skia modules/skottie/src/Layer.cpp at ca14cab7 (raw), L189, L546 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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