This project is a personal exploration into the interactive and dynamic possibilities of character animation using Rive. It's a collection of experiments showcasing my ability to design, animate, and bring characters to life within a real-time environment.

Character Design: Developing the visual style and personality of each character.

Character Rigging: Building rigs that allow for a wide range of expressive and responsive movements.

Animation: Creating the animations that bring the characters to life and respond to user interaction.

The challenge was to push the boundaries of character animation beyond traditional linear formats and explore how animation can be used to create engaging and interactive experiences. I wanted to create characters that respond to user input and feel truly alive. I designed and animated a series of characters specifically within Rive to leverage its capabilities for real-time interactivity. This involved character design and rigging. The result is a set of dynamic character explorations that demonstrate the potential for interactive storytelling.

These Rive explorations were a deep dive into real-time character interaction. The process involved: Iterating on character designs directly within Rive, Developing animation state machines for interactive responses, Fine-tuning animation curves for a snappy feel.

I focused on creating animations that were both visually appealing and technically robust for interactive use.

For these projects I used Adobe Illustrator and Procreate for the characters design, and Rive for Animation and Interactivity.

Apart of its unique Interactive capabilities I found that Rive is extremely versatile for doing character animation, working with vector based characters is super flexible and easy to animate, while doing raster based image works takes a little more of thinking on how your going to separate and rig your character the final result is really worthy, so whether your project needs vector or raster characters, Rive can deliver incredible results.

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