Rive Animation & State Machines

Designed for developers and agencies needing authored interactive motion.

A visually finished file is difficult to integrate if its controls are ambiguous. Plan the state graph, property names, reset behavior and ownership of state alongside the artwork.

What we can build

• Interactive Rive file.
• State and control specification.
• Runtime-aware handoff and fallback plan.

The final deliverables are agreed during discovery. Source files, implementation support and additional platform variants are included only when explicitly scoped.

A clear control contract

Plan the animation’s public controls before producing a full motion library. A starting specification might include:

• Document each property name and type.
• Define defaults, ranges and reset rules.
• Record events and their expected transitions.

These are proposed control names and behaviors, not an existing Rive asset. The final file determines the actual property and state names.

Integration considerations

Review runtime feature support before committing to editor features. Choose data binding or existing input controls to match the file and target runtime; integration engineering is scoped explicitly.

Review the behavior

Validate the final export in the target runtime with a documented event sequence, layout changes and repeated mounting.

From brief to handoff

1. Define. Review your audience, key events, platform and asset requirements.
2. Design. Approve the visual direction, key poses and transition rules.
3. Build. Rig the artwork and author the agreed state system.
4. Validate. Review an export against the acceptance sequence and target runtime.
5. Handoff. Deliver the scoped assets, control map and integration notes.

Questions before we start