Made a thinking animation for an AI chat two weeks ago. The client's logo only had the capybara i...

Made a thinking animation for an AI chat two weeks ago. The client's logo only had the capybara i...Made a thinking animation for an AI chat two weeks ago. The client's logo only had the capybara i...

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Anton Gridz

• Sep 5

Made a thinking animation for an AI chat two weeks ago. The client's logo only had the capybara in profile — so I asked @QuiverAI for a front view, polished it, and rigged it in SVG with Claude Code. It turns, it doesn't rotate.

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Nathaniel Dada

• Sep 5

Nice work

Anton Gridz

• Sep 5

Thanks, Nathaniel!

Maty Sandoval

max

• Sep 6

The distinction between it turns but doesn't rotate is such a small detail, but that's exactly the kind of thing that separates a believable thinking animation from an uncanny one. How many passes did it take to get that turn feeling natural instead of mechanical?

Anton Gridz

• Sep 7

Thank you, Maty! To be honest, I did it at night for my other project, and the feed on X was full of the new Grok Bot mascot, so I decided to bring the mascot from the project logo to life. It didn't take long- maybe 40- 60 minutes- until I was satisfied. The next morning, I...

Diego Sánchez

• Sep 6

Curious about the actual handoff there, did QuiverAI give you something close to rig-ready, or were you writing the rotation logic yourself once it was in SVG?

Anton Gridz

• Sep 7

Thanks so much for your question, Diego! I had a great time using the QuiverAI app to create a front-view icon of the mascot from the client’s logo. I simply provided the logo as SVG code and a large PNG of the character, then asked it to generate a front view using the attached...

Tan | Wayrise

pro

• Sep 7

Super cool haha! 😍

Anton Gridz

• Sep 7

Thank you, Tan! ☺️

Salome Lawal

• Sep 8

Mind if I ask if get the solution to it rotating

Anton Gridz

• Sep 9

Sure, there are no secrets: Treat the head as an ellipsoid: store the silhouette once and renormalize it into the ball's space each frame, swelling the near half and tucking the far one; project the features off the sphere surface instead of warping them, using the recovered...