BT.AI / BoxTalk: Hero Animation and Trade Show Explainers

BoxTalk / BT.AI / 2024

First seconds, fully explained.

My role: Lottie hero animation, UI scene animation and explainer video

Delivered: A website hero in six Lottie versions, component and scene animations with HTML previews, and a 90-second explainer in three cuts

Tools: After Effects, Lottie, Cinema 4D

The brief

Kyle Ivins needed the masthead of the BT.AI (BoxTalk) website animated (Upwork contract "Animate Masthead for BT.ai website", started 25 July 2024). The Contra case title for this work adds trade show explainers.

The build

The hero is a 1920 by 1080, 21-second scene at 60 fps, built as a main report interface with supporting scenes for connections and billing. It went through six versions: the first Lottie files run 1 to 2.6 MB, and the BoxTalkHero v2 to v6 series settled near 530 KB. Alongside the hero I animated a chat window, a bar chart, a logo glyph and three scene demos, each with an HTML preview page. The After Effects folder shows four hero versions and a separate explainer branch.

The delivered experience

The explainer renders are three 1920 by 1080 MP4s of about 90 seconds, dated 17 March 2025. The hero Lottie files and previews are in the project folder; I have not confirmed which version is live on the BoxTalk site.