AI mascot animator

Your mascot, animated for every moment in your product.

Upload the mascot you already have. AI-assisted analysis finds its head, eyes, arms and accessories, then our engine rigs your own artwork and animates loading, success, error, empty states, greetings and assistant reactions — in Rive, video, GIF and code.

Try it with your character See plans

Input: Your mascot image — or describe one
Animations: 17: moods, app states, reactions, launch
Turnaround: Usually 1–2 hours
From: $4.99/month

Live Rive file

Loops

Play once

This is the actual .riv our engine delivers, playing in your browser — the same state machine you drive from your app with one number input and a trigger per one-shot.

How can I animate my existing mascot for my app?

Rig your existing artwork and animate the states your app uses — idle, loading, success, error, empty state — then ship them as a Rive file your code switches between. Do it yourself in the Rive editor, or upload the mascot to a generator such as Charmotion, which delivers 17 animations as Rive, video, GIF and code.

How to Animate a Mascot Without After Effects

What are the alternatives to hiring a motion designer for a mascot?

Use ready-made templates if it needn't be your character, animate it yourself in Rive or Lottie Creator, generate app-ready states from your mascot image with a tool such as Charmotion, use AI image-to-video for one-off clips, or hire a freelancer for a small fixed scope.

Alternatives to Hiring a Motion Designer for Your Mascot

Built around the moments a mascot is for

Product moment	Animation	Type
App launch, site header	launch → idle	plays once
Waiting on a request	loading, thinking	loop
Saved, paid, completed	success	one-shot
Something failed	error, sad	one-shot / loop
Empty inbox, nothing yet	sleeping	loop
Onboarding, welcome	wave, happy, enter	loop / one-shot
Notification, tip	attention	loop
Chat or voice assistant	listening, talking, yes, no	loop / one-shot

Where the AI is — and where it isn't

Your artwork is never redrawn

AI-assisted checks decide which part is a head, an eye or an arm. The motion itself is rigged and keyframed in Rive from your own pixels or traced shapes, so what you download is your mascot, moving — not a lookalike. Uploads are processed on our own machines and never used for training.

No mascot yet? Describe it

Choose Describe it, write a sentence, and our AI draws a flat, animation-friendly character you can animate like any upload. AI designs are included in every plan — 8 a month on Starter, 12 on Studio — and never use up a set.

Real output

Delivered files, exactly as you'd download them.

MP4 All plans

1080 × 1080 at 60 fps. Here: Pip’s wave, straight from the delivered file.

Transparent WebM & MOV Studio

Alpha channel included — the checkerboard shows through. MOV is HEVC with alpha for Apple apps and editors.

Rivet thinking — GIF output — GIF All plans
Light previews for docs, email and chat. Rivet’s “thinking” loop.

9:16 launch video All plans

1080 × 1920 for stories and splash screens. Bolt’s launch intro.

pip.riv · 40 KB

CharacterStateMachine: number input mood
0–9: idle, happy, wave, thinking, sad, loading, listening, talking, sleeping, attention
triggers: success · error · yes · no · enter · exit
LaunchStateMachine: launch → idle, plays once

Rive state machine Studio

One tiny vector file instead of 17 videos. It’s what powers the demo at the top of this page.

import { useRive, useStateMachineInput } from "@rive-app/react-canvas";

export function Pip({ mood = 0 }) {
  const { rive, RiveComponent } = useRive({
    src: "/pip.riv",
    stateMachine: "CharacterStateMachine",
    autoplay: true,
  });
  const input = useStateMachineInput(rive, "CharacterStateMachine", "mood");
  if (input) input.value = mood; // 0 idle · 1 happy · 2 wave · 3 thinking · 4 sad · 5 loading …
  return <RiveComponent style={{ width: 320, height: 320 }} />;
}

Paste-ready code Studio

Web, React and SwiftUI components named after your character.

Formats included per plan
Format	Specs	Best for	Starter	Studio & Expert
MP4	1080 × 1080, 60 fps, all 17 animations	Apps, socials, decks, product videos	Included	Included
9:16 launch video	1080 × 1920 MP4	Stories, Reels, splash screens	Included	Included
GIF	480 px previews	Docs, email, chat, README	Included	Included
Rive (.riv)	Vector; Data Binding view model + legacy inputs: mood for loops, triggers for one-shots, launch machine	Interactive apps and sites (web, iOS, Android, Flutter)	Not included	Included
Transparent WebM	VP9 with alpha, 1080 × 1080	Web overlays on any background	Not included	Included
Transparent MOV	HEVC with alpha (ProRes 4444 on request)	Final Cut, Keynote, iOS, Safari	Not included	Included
Code	Web (HTML), React and SwiftUI components	Paste in and ship	Not included	Included
Download all (.zip)	Everything in one archive (MOVs separate)	Hand-off to your team	Included	Included

Plans

Pick the formats you need.

Starter ($4.99/month) covers MP4, GIF and the 9:16 video. Studio ($29/month) adds the interactive .riv, transparent video and code most apps need. Prices in USD; tax is calculated at checkout by Polar.