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I had never head of Rive before and it looks like something I can use in one of my projects. Thanks, this is the kind of stuff that keeps me addicted to HN.

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I've used Rive in a small personal project before and I really can't imagine creating or editing web animations in any other way. Apparently they also made their own vector-based feathering technique, which is also amazing:

https://rive.app/blog/introducing-vector-feathering

I do understand the appeal for an open format though. Rive seems to have their own proprietary (documented) binary format: https://rive.app/docs/runtimes/advanced-topic/format

They say on https://rive.app/pricing that the Format is OS and MIT, perhaps I have missed something?

Oh, my mistake. I shouldn't have used the word "proprietary", but too late to edit. There does seem to be community-made runtimes: https://rive.app/docs/runtimes/community-runtimes

Me neither. Was pretty enthused, and even more so when I found that they have a desktop app instead of being yet another Web-only tool.

Then I downloaded the app and found you can't use it without setting up an "account" and being online.

So in the end, this is more tiresome Web-only crap. Deleted.

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