Innovative Rive Character System for Interactive App Bands

This is my #RiveChallenge presentation on Contra, built from a character system I created for VDV Labs, Robert Vandervoort. All these little characters are part of an interactive system designed to create a band inside an app. The idea was simple: what if one rig structure could support many different performers? Instead of building every character and animation from scratch, I designed one reusable Rive system that can adapt to different animals, outfits, instruments, and performance loops. One component turns into a kawaii band: the characters change, the instruments change, and the performance evolves, but everything is still driven by the same reusable Rive structure. This was the biggest challenge of the project: building a system strong enough to handle multiple characters and outfits while keeping the animation readable and reliable. The amount of layers, states, controls, and visual variations made the work both technical and creative. I handled the full process: vector cleanup, character adaptation, animation, outfit design, state machine logic, and data binding. At the end, the project is more than one character animation. It is one flexible character system working across multiple performers in the same scene. Built in Rive.