The AI age is upon us. Everywhere you look, generative tools are reshaping how we make art. At Rival we’re not watching from the sidelines – we’re rolling up our sleeves and putting these tools to the test. We’re a small, artist‑led studio, and like most indies we don’t have [...]

The next big experiment at Rival Animation isn’t a film or an explainer—it’s a board game. Yes, you read that right. We’re storytellers at heart, and the best games leave you with a story to tell. So when our creative director started building a lightweight D&D‑inspired board game full of [...]

At Rival Animation, we love the craft of animation because it’s an endlessly flexible storytelling medium. It lets us paint worlds that don’t exist and breathe life into characters and ideas that live only in our imaginations. But beyond the creative joy, there are solid reasons why animation outperforms other [...]

LLMs like ChatGPT are here to stay, and we increasingly find our clients using them to help shape their thinking before they get in touch with a project. At Rival, we think ChatGPT is amazing – I personally work with it multiple times a day. It’s a powerful tool – [...]