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In this article I wrote for my newsletter (Entry State), I share how I’m approaching Scripting in Rive. Not from a “here’s the method” angle, but more like a set of messy field notes.
I’ve been learning in a very exploratory way, and I wanted to share what’s been working for me so far.
Inside you’ll find:
● How I explored different tools when AI credits ran out
● What helped me prompt better and spend fewer credits
● The fundamentals I’m learning and how I’m practicing them
If you’re also learning Scripting, I hope you can find something useful! 👇
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Finding my Scripting workflow in Rive
A designer’s field notes A few weeks ago, I shared my first impressions of Scripting in Rive. In that post, I talked about what I called the “blind‑coding” stage — those first attempts where you throw ideas at the Agent, watch things appear almost instantly, and think: okay, this is both amazing and
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First Rive video with my daughter as collaborator, mainly contributing by sleeping so I can record it. 😄
You’ve probably seen the trick of changing the editor background colour to distinguish design and animate modes in Rive.
Here’s another small hack: add the background to Layouts so you can clearly see how elements reflow during animations or inside embeds. Simple but very handy.
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I spent weeks training a few different Claude sessions on everything I know about creative process, web development, and onboarding clients to get some of the most common tools I use into an instruction document for AI. You can use these to quick-start different projects with Claude or any other LLM to help you get your project off the ground with less effort.
Just drop your .md file into the LLM and get working. Each .md file comes with a quick instruction guide to help you navigate the tool.
There are file tools at the moment: Client Onboarding, Web Dev kick-start, Motion Design project planning, Brand Voice training, and a prompting toolkit.
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This is really interesting. Building structured AI workflows for things like client onboarding and creative processes is a huge time saver for freelancers. Curious to see how others are integrating systems like this into their daily workflow. Great initiative sharing this! 🚀
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