Guide · Motion graphics

Bring in an animated character

Characters that move and talk along with your voiceover.

Animated characters bring a mascot or guide into your video. They're built with Rive and move with your voiceover.

Add a character

1. Open the Graphics panel. Characters are at the top.
2. Click a character to add it at the playhead.
3. Select it. The inspector's Character tab shows its Animation (a state machine) and its Inputs: poses such as happy, thinking, surprised and proud.
4. Turn on Mouth from speech and pick a speech track. The character talks during the loud parts of your voice.

Your own character

Not every Rive file will work: it needs one state machine, named controls, a talk mouth and everything embedded. Follow Make a Rive character that works before you import one.

Then add it to your brand kit's Characters so every project and your AI can use it.