Katy Sander

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...

I built a small game for designers called TapTrap.

It’s inspired by those old school “Tricky IQ Test” games, but redesigned for people who obsess over alignment and argue about hex codes for fun.

I actually started building it before scripting was available in Rive, so most of the...

I had a blast working on this little guy. Welcome the newest member of the KS mascot family, Kin. An emotionally aware AI companion brought to life in Rive. Multiple mood states, expressive gestures, lip-sync, all driven by data binding and a state machine.

PS: leaving the typo in on purpose. Consider it a call to action.

While working on my Rive scripting challenge submission and playing around with this absolute bomb of a feature, I can’t help but remember (and internally shudder) how painfully long and tedious particle animations used to be. The video here is from one of my older projects,...