When Chris Halaska (@chalaska) posted a set of custom-designed icons asking, “Who’s the best in the business to animate these?”, I jumped in with a Rive-based motion response.

That sparked a direct collab to animate the full icon set for his Halaska Studio website — with a clear brief: keep the motion subtle, brand-aligned, and production-ready for web. We also tested early iterations live in Framer to ensure the .riv files would integrate smoothly in real-time.

By the end of the first stage, the animated icons were live on the homepage — crisp, expressive, and enriching the way Halaska communicates services like Product Design, UX research, Mobile, MVPs, and more.

A few weeks later, Chris reached out again with an idea:

“Can we animate the Halaska wordmark?"

I was already thinking in something around that direction. The result was a responsive interactive wordmark in the Halaska Footer Website — animated in Rive to be lightweight and brand-cohesive, with subtle ‘liquid/magnetic’ motion tied to user interaction.

✅ Animated icon set for use across the Halaska website ✅ Final delivery in .riv format (Rive), tested in Framer ✅ Interactive/Animated wordmark (Hover Interaction) ✅ Motion experiments and in-progress demos shared along the way

Rive (to make the animations/interactions) - 90% Figma (for getting and structure the original references) - 5% Framer (for testing) - 5%

Motion Designer / Icon Animator / UI Dev

@chalaska (Halaska Studio) You can see the result live at halaskastudio.com.