// Index — 25 pages

01 Work

02 Writing

03 Me

// Desk — 6 tools // 4 disciplines

Desk

What's open on my machine when the studio makes things, and one line on how I use each.

I'm also deep into AI and machine learning, retrieval-augmented generation especially, and how it changes the way a small studio works. Which tools I use for that stays off this page for now.

// 01 — Stack

The tools, by discipline

Design and 3D01
T-01Blender
3D scenes and CG films, rendered in Cycles on our own GPU. Stay, in the lab, is a Rive UI rebuilt here at 1 px to 1 mm.
Site
Motion01
T-02Rive
Interactive pieces and logo films: date pickers, a signature card, characters that follow the pointer. Every motion lives in the Rive file.
Site
Site stack02
T-03Astro
This site moved from Framer to Astro: static pages, one JSON-LD graph per page, very little JavaScript.
Site
T-04Cloudflare
Cloudflare Pages hosts the site, with a preview branch for every pass before it goes live.
Site
Sound02
T-05Epidemic Sound
Music with stems, so drums can drop out on a slow-motion beat, and a big sound-effects library.
Site
T-06Musicbed
Cinematic licensed music when a film needs a proper score.
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// Work with me

Building something?

We're taking on a few more funded startups at Alterra Studio this quarter. Projects start at $10k.

Book a call hello@ryanhofmann.com