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🎬 The Library of Rain
For the Renoise Challenge, I created a cinematic anime short inspired by the emotional storytelling of modern Japanese animated films. The story follows Ren as he discovers a mysterious abandoned library where every raindrop holds someone's memories. As the memories fade, he opens the final book and realizes the library has been writing his own story all along.
Created with Renoise, using consistent character references, cinematic keyframes, and AI-generated animation to achieve a feature-film anime aesthetic with immersive lighting, rain effects, and orchestral storytelling.
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This is our team submission (Me, Megg, and Anna) to the Rive x Contra Interactive Character Animation Challenge. It’s a tamagotchi inspired experience based off of Moomin, Megg’s american bully dog. Moomin isn’t my dog but I’ve played with him, hand fed him, and took turns in potty training him. And boy does potty training a puppy sure does take a lot of patience, and I mean a LOT. Moomin’s a good boy, sometimes a naughty boy, and sometimes a bad boy. I’m not a dog person and the experience has been a little bit frustrating (especially when Moomin refuses to listen 🙄), but also rewarding, and overall sparks joy. And that’s the goal of this Rive app, to share that whole experience with Moomin to anyone who plays around with the app. We tried to capture Moomin’s mannerisms when he eats, when you pat him, and he really does flop to the ground when he refuses to listen. We wanted to make the digital Moomin feel as alive as possible. And if we’ve done our jobs well, we hope you’ll be so engaged that you forget it’s an app, and feel like he’s a real digital pet.
I’m not sure if we can win the challenge because there are a lot of amazing entries (but hopefully we do, and Moomin gets a share, of course, if we win) but even if we don’t, if we’re able to make people playing with the app feel a spark of joy in a world that feels uncertain as ever, then I feel like we’ve already won.
Test it here: https://rive.app/s/CvJQJr-eGk6PN7W46_8-KA/embed?runtime=rive-renderer
We’ve made this specifically for the challenge, so we didn’t have the time to optimize for a mobile experience. This is only optimized for the desktop experience.
Hope you’ll enjoy the experience, and let me know what you think in the comments.
Really nice
RORO is a small axolotl-like creature born in the underground world — curious, fearless, and always searching for what lies beyond the next doorway.
Armed with a lantern and endless wonder, RORO travels between dimensions without ever losing itself. That's the whole point.
This is the mascot for RORO — an imaginary t-shirt brand built around one character and infinite worlds.
THE CHARACTER RORO is slate blue with coral-red feathery gills and dark sharp spikes. Slightly mysterious. Slightly mischievous. Completely unafraid. The kind of character you'd recognize on a poster, a sticker, a packaging label, or a tiny thumbnail — and know immediately who it is.
TWO SERIES RORO BRAND:
1. WORLDS — each print places RORO inside a different dimension: ocean depths, crystal caves, alien landscapes, surrealist architecture. The world changes. The character never does.
2. RORO STATES — each print captures RORO mid-adventure: steampunk biker, monster fighter, underground cartographer, volcanic onsen dreamer. One character. Infinite sides.
Together the two series create a brand universe that can expand forever without losing coherence.
Every world has a story.
Such a fun character! I love how you built an entire brand world around one mascot. It feels memorable and full of personality👏
NULL is a complete mascot system built for a fictional cybersecurity company, proving that a single character can remain instantly recognizable across branding, posters, merchandise, social campaigns, motion, and environmental storytelling. The project explores how strong character design becomes a cohesive brand by combining identity, world-building, and consistent visual language into one unified ecosystem.
NULL is the quiet guardian of /dev/null, the hidden place where corrupted code and dangerous software disappear forever. Calm, observant, and endlessly patient, NULL finds vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them, protecting developers without ever seeking attention. Rather than fighting threats with force, NULL simply ensures they quietly cease to exist. Every application in this project expands that idea while preserving the same recognizable identity.
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