LemmaEOF

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Hey! I'm Lemma, and I'm a chubby queer robot VTuber who both makes and plays games on stream! I also occasionally write short stories and tinker with other projects, so keep an eye out! See you around~

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So today I found out about a new tool for creating animations called Rive. It advertises itself as a vector-based system with a dedicated editor that can export to a bunch of different runtimes for various environments, systems for interactivity, and a couple other gizmos.

...It's just neumorphic Adobe Flash.

Sure, it's got some new features. Cloning the animation controller state machine framework from Unity makes sense, and having multiple open-source runtimes might give it more longevity, but it walks right into one of the biggest reasons that Flash fell out of style for UI: motion sickness.

Just go and visit the site I linked above - almost every button on the page is nauseatingly over-animated, with about half a dozen too many bounce eases each. I don't usually get motion sickness from animations, and even these are a bit too much for me.

Not only that, but this is of course a modern techno-feudalist Service™, not an app - the free trial lets you make exactly three files and exports them with a watermark, while the cheapest paid tier is twenty-four United States Dollars per month. At the $699 price tag of Adobe Flash Professional CS6, it would only take a mere two and a half years for Rive to cost more, which is nothing for learning and working with a creative medium.

Not only that, but you can still use real Adobe Flash for cheaper! Adobe Animate CC is $20.99 a month - still a ripoff of course, but it's ridiculous that something like Rive would be even more expensive! Hell, this isn't even mentioning the team licenses - Animate CC is $36/user/month, and Rive is NINETY FUCKING NINE US DOLLARS PER USER PER MONTH for teams! It's absurd to think that anyone would actually consider this a deal even worth considering.


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in reply to @LemmaEOF's post:

wow!! another pile of crap to put into the 'never even think about it' pile
imagine tying your artistic existence to paying monthly rent to some ephemeral american tech startup
however i'm sure it's perfect for corporate sludge like "Bring brands to life with animated hero moments"