Looks kinda interesting but I am not gonna touch anything that thinks an acceptable set of drawing tools is "pen and a couple of basic shapes", I quit pulling out every single point by hand in Illustrator a decade ago and my art and my job satisfaction has been much better for it. Finding the right settings for Illustrator's pencil tool (the defaults are absolutely useless) sped up my work by at least one order of magnitude.
Using the pen tool for all your shapes is about as efficient as using Photoshop's pencil tool to set every pixel yourself, or writing your entire app in assembly.
FWIW Most folks are animating in rive not drawing with the reduced set of tools. In their tutorials you see them demonstrating their PSD layer support, for example.
Moving around stuff drawn in another program is boring, and gives me flashbacks to back around 2000 when I was moving around stuff at the end of a lengthy multi-person chain that started on paper. Drawing stuff in the same program I'm moving stuff around in and using its rigging/distortion tools to do inbetweening is fun. I really gotta make time to seriously dig into Moho or Toon Boom soon because I keep on missing animation lately.
> Looks kinda interesting but I am not gonna touch anything that thinks an acceptable set of drawing tools is "pen and a couple of basic shapes", I quit pulling out every single point by hand in Illustrator a decade ago and my art and my job satisfaction has been much better for it.
Pencil tool. The defaults are absolute trash that make it impossible to sketch with, and useless for drawing filled shapes; once you discover it has settings and play with them, it becomes absurdly fast.
Lately I've been thinking it's time to move on to Moho or Toon Boom though, I've been wanting to make stuff move, and I'm real tired of Adobe leaving all kinds of annoying broken edges unfixed for years.
Using the pen tool for all your shapes is about as efficient as using Photoshop's pencil tool to set every pixel yourself, or writing your entire app in assembly.