Rive Rigging & Character Animation
by Andy Mason

Sea Captain sample rig created in Rive
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Comes with a free bird!

This rig includes IK controls for hands, feet, and root movements.

It also includes a look at controller to adjust head movements.

Many more controls could be added given a longer timeline, such as rotation controls, multiple facial expressions, hand controls, reusable walk cycles, etc.

Other Rive experiments
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These rive experiments were done to explore possible tools in Rive, time controls, mouse tracking, looping, look controllers, bone controls, camera movements, etc. The most complicated rig is the dinosaur trying to eat the butterfly, which includes mouse tracking, looping animation, deformation meshes, bone setups and more.

Very Large
Very Small
Very Fast
Very Slow
Very Dangerous
In the Past
In the Future
Very Distant
Inaccessible
Pure Data

Previous animation
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Watch the video to see samples from the last 15 years of character animation.

Rive is the latest tool in my tool kit, but the lessons from rigging every character in the past, whether 2D or 3D, informs my decision process while rigging and animating in Rive.

Thanks for visiting!
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Get in touch at andy@shapeshiftersdesign.com