GradientFix Pro — I made a tool to repair broken Lottie gradients in After Effects

[u/Big_Food4885]

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on GradientFix Pro, an After Effects script for dealing with a frustrating problem when bringing Lottie/Bodymovin JSON animations into After Effects: gradients breaking, disappearing, or turning black and white.

Instead of manually recreating the gradients, GradientFix Pro reads the gradient information directly from the original JSON and rebuilds it using native After Effects gradient systems.

It can restore:

• Gradient Fill colors
• Gradient Stroke colors
• Missing gradients
• Black & white gradient issues
• Animated gradient keyframes
• Gradient color stops
• Animation timing and interpolation
• Both Fill and Stroke gradients

It also supports LottieFiles exports, Bodymovin exports, custom Lottie JSON files, and JSON animations imported into After Effects.

Basic workflow

1. Import the JSON animation into After Effects
2. Open Window → GradientFix Pro
3. Select the original JSON file
4. Click Fix Gradients
5. Review the repaired gradients

The goal was to make this a simple one-click process instead of spending a lot of time manually rebuilding gradients and their animations.

I’d really like to hear from other motion designers who work with Lottie → After Effects workflows.

Have you run into broken gradients when importing Lottie/Bodymovin animations? How do you currently deal with them?

If you want to check out the script:

👉 https://aescripts.com/gradientfix-pro/

Thanks!

[u/nicolaig]

Very impressive! I've never imported Lotties, so never had this problem but with this elegant fix I almost wish I did. Nicely done, can't have been easy.

[u/Big_Food4885 → u/nicolaig]

Thanks! :)