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HELP ME OUT 🎃
Someone is trapped behind frosted glass and wipes a message into the frost from the inside: HELP ME OUT. Click the chips to make their hand strike the pane. On the fifth hit the glass shatters and a ghost seeps out. Swat it back in before the frost heals, then read the final message: NEXT HALLOWEEN.
Built with:
Rive CLI + coding agent: all the mechanics and sound (story flow, IK arms, ghost behaviour, 10 sound cues)
GPU Canvas (WGSL): frost with depth of field, cracks, blood, shards, wiped letters, the ghost
Scripting + Data Binding to run the scene
Rive Editor: hand-drawn figure, hands and lettering, plus composition and timing
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The Rive Halloween Challenge is officially wrapped! Huge shoutout to everyone who participated, liked, commented, shared, and scrolled through 🙌
Congratulations to the winners:
1st place: Leo Mazzei
2nd place: Ashley Best
3rd place: Kateryna Kazachkova
Tales of Mystery & Notification 🕯️🔴
What if Harry Clarke had illustrated our nightmares? In 1919 he drew Edgar Allan Poe's. I asked him to draw ours.
I went digging through the Public Domain Image Archive and found Clarke's 1919 plates for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: black-and-white ink by a Dublin stained-glass artist, all long pale fingers and dread. I trained ten of them into a Recraft style, Clarke Ink 1919.
Then I retold ten of Poe's tales as the horrors of the smartphone age. Each plate sits beside Clarke's original, and each caption is his own line with one word swapped: "the heart beat on with a muffled sound" became "the phone buzzed on". A man is buried alive in his inbox. The masked guest is a 99+ badge.
The only colour in the whole book is the red notification dot. The film ends inside Recraft, showing how it was made.
@Recraft
Happy Halloween. The style is public, so try it yourself 👇
This is an example of how simple art can be turned into films.
Everything is so refined and polished. I genuinely wanna know how did you come up with this?
A few characters I’ve brought to life in Rive.
Beyond the animation: interactive states, responsive behaviours, and personality built to work inside real products.
