BodyMovin / LottieFiles - requires that you have your After Effects animation in a JSON format and stored on your server.
Because GitHub Pages is a static site with no backend, does this mean that you cannot use LottieFiles with GitHub Pages?
If you can, does anyone have an example of this being done, please -
I have used bodymovin with Json After effects file to run a animation on other sites just not github pages
does this mean that you cannot use LottieFiles with GitHub Pages?
Yes, the lottiefile, even declared as a webplayer in <lottie-player> element, would not be interpreted by GitHub.
One alternative/workaround would be to embed a video in your GitHub page in order to show what the animation would look like.
It is possible with Jekyll-pages.