How Rive Can Help You Create Amazing Interactive Animations for Any Platform
Rive is a web-based platform that lets you design, animate, and integrate graphics for your products, apps, sites, and games.
You can use Rive’s familiar design and animation tools with its ground-breaking State Machine to create interactive content that responds to user input, data, and events.
With Rive, you can animate anything, from vector shapes to raster images, from bones to meshes, from trim paths to clipping.
Why use Rive?
- Rive is the ultimate tool for interactive animations because it gives you the freedom and flexibility to create captivating and engaging graphics that run anywhere.
- You can use Rive to:
- Build interactive 2D characters, props, and UI for games
- Create highly animated menus with dynamic text
- Bring brands to life with animated hero moments
- Build animated UI components that are ready to ship
- Create interactive graphics that react to input and data
- Rive is trusted and loved by thousands of designers, animators, and developers from companies like Duolingo, simpleclub, and Google.
Use Cases
Rive can help you create captivating interactive moments for your products, apps, sites, and games. Here are some of the use cases that Rive can handle:
- Game UI: You can create interactive, animated graphics that are ready to ship to game engines. For example, you can create highly animated menus with dynamic text, interactive 2D characters, props, and UI for games, and lip-synched graphics that sync audio to graphics.
- Hero animations: You can bring brands to life with animated hero moments. For example, you can create interactive illustrations that make websites and apps more engaging, animated logos that make your brand stand out, and animated mascots that bring brands to life.
- Animated UI components: You can build animated UI components that are ready to ship. For example, you can create interactive forms that make a signup experience playful, toggle buttons that are easy to build and unique, and star ratings that stand out from basic defaults.
- Interactive graphics: You can create interactive graphics that react to input and data. For example, you can create pull-to-refresh animations that work on iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, and more, data visualizations that improve storytelling with animated charts and graphs, and onboarding screens that make onboarding moments more engaging.
Functions
Rive’s editor, file format, and runtimes work seamlessly together, making it easy for designers and developers to create captivating interactive moments. Here are some of the functions that Rive offers:
- Design and animation tools: You can use Rive’s familiar design and animation tools to create vector and raster graphics, bones and meshes, trim paths and clipping, and more. You can also import Lottie and Figma files, and export your animations in various formats, such as GIF, MP4, PNG sequence, SVG, and JSON.
- State Machine: You can use Rive’s ground-breaking State Machine to create interactive content that responds to user input, data, and events. You can also use constraints, inverse kinematics, solos, and joysticks to control the properties and behaviors of your graphics.
- Collaboration and sharing: You can work with your team members in real-time, share your files with the community, remix other creators’ work, and embed your animations on any website.
Features
Rive has many features that make it the ultimate tool for interactive animations.
- Web-based: You can access Rive from any browser, without installing any software or plugins. You can also work offline and sync your changes when you are online.
- Cross-platform: You can run your animations anywhere, with support for web, iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, Flutter, React, React Native, Rust, C++, Defold, Tizen, Unity, Unreal, Bevy, Framer, and more. You can also easily embed interactive animations or manipulate them with code using Rive’s open-source runtimes.
- High-performance: You can draw an unprecedented amount of vectors on screen with the Rive Renderer, which can animate everything at 120 fps with perfect quality. Rive files are also smaller, faster, and take less memory than other formats.
How to get started with Rive?
If you are ready to unleash your creativity and build interactive animations that run anywhere, you can get started with Rive today.
Just visit Rive’s website and sign up for free.
