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Meet Lenny! 🐑 He’s an interactive character I developed for Creed, an AI companion app currently live on the App Store and Play Store.
I built a huge customization system in Rive, allowing real-time swaps for his hats, clothes, wings, necklaces, and dynamic colors. He also has a bunch of interactive animation states like talking, thinking, writing, and more, all running smoothly on a clean state machine.
Excited to share this walkthrough from my ongoing project for the Rive #characterchallenge! ✨
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The worst mistake you can make in character animation is not moving it enough.
The second worst mistake is moving it for no reason.
Stop wiggling it around just so there's movement. Living creatures move for a reason. They shift their weight. They blink. They breathe. They get bored.
Look at this crowd of slimes I made in Rive. They're identical (literally the same Component), but by randomizing their idle movements through the State Machine, they naturally fall out-of-sync with each other.
They feel more like a crowd of unique individuals, not copy-pasted digital assets.
Having a character's eyes follow your cursor is fun. But it's easy to make the mistake of following the cursor F O R E V E R. Real creatures get distracted. They lose interest.
Those tiny acting moments and details are what make a character feel alive!
Full case study in my profile. Follow for more!
A quick summary of my longstanding collab with the good folks over at Stacklist.
I got to try on so many different hats with this one (mainly UI/UX & graphic design) and had lots of fun in the process 🙌
Long collaborations are a great chance to build a consistent design language.
Meet Nim, a character whose jelly-cloud head changes shape, color and glow with every emotion. In this pilot, a birthday moment turns into a misunderstanding when his head reacts before he can explain how he really feels. But why is this happening to him? Follow Nim as he tries to understand it, figure out if he can control it, and discover how it will affect his relationships with the people around him.
great work Paula!