{"id":23476,"date":"2026-01-15T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:44:56","slug":"the-rive-founders-talk-interactive-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/the-rive-founders-talk-interactive-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rive founders talk interactive animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having gotten my start in Flash 2.0 (!), and having joined Adobe in 2000 specifically to make a Flash\/SVG authoring tool that didn&#8217;t make me want to walk into the ocean, I felt my cold, ancient Grinch-heart grow three sizes listening to Guido and Luigi Rosso\u2014the brother founders behind <a href=\"https:\/\/rive.app\/editor\">Rive<\/a>\u2014on the School of Motion podcast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>[They] dig into what makes this platform different, where it&#8217;s headed, and why teams at Spotify, Duolingo, and LinkedIn are building entire interactive experiences with it!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Founders of Rive Spill the Tea on Interactive Animation! | SOM Podcast\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxbAukgSZHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a NotebookLM-made visualization of the key ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-1536x857.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rive-2048x1143.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Table of contents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on 2025: A Year of Milestones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=24s\">00:24<\/a> <br>The Challenges of a Three-Sided Marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=178s\">02:58<\/a> <br>Adoption Across Designers, Developers, and Companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=251s\">04:11<\/a> <br>The Evolution of Design and Development Collaboration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=346s\">05:46<\/a> <br>The Power of Data Binding and Scripting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=421s\">07:01<\/a> <br>Rive&#8217;s Impact on Product Teams and Large Enterprises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=558s\">09:18<\/a> <br>The Future of Interactive Experiences with Rive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=756s\">12:36<\/a> <br>Understanding Rive&#8217;s Mental Model and Scripting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=1472s\">24:32<\/a> <br>Comparing Rive&#8217;s Scripting to After Effects and Flash <br>The Vision for Rive in Game Development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=1890s\">31:30<\/a> <br>Real-Time Data Integration and Future Possibilities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=2426s\">40:26<\/a> <br>Spotify Wrapped: A Showcase of Rive&#8217;s Potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=2528s\">42:08<\/a> <br>Breaking Down Complex Experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=2778s\">46:18<\/a> <br>Creative Technologists and Their Impact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=3067s\">51:07<\/a> <br>The Future of Rive: 3D and Beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=3570s\">59:30<\/a> <br>Opportunities for Motion Designers with Rive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxbAukgSZHw&amp;t=4298s\">1:11:38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having gotten my start in Flash 2.0 (!), and having joined Adobe in 2000 specifically to make a Flash\/SVG authoring tool that didn&#8217;t make me want to walk into the ocean, I felt my cold, ancient Grinch-heart grow three sizes listening to Guido and Luigi Rosso\u2014the brother founders behind Rive\u2014on the School of Motion podcast: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23479,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23476\/revisions\/23479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}