Maksym Marakhovskyi

Maksym
Marakhovskyi

I’m a motion designer with 9+ years of experience. At Reface, I animate characters and interfaces for BitePal and Lightly, working with engineers on how they respond to each tap.

I started out animating logos in After Effects, then brought motion into Surprise.app with Lottie and Rive. I also wrote and taught the Rive course at Motion Design School.

Skills

  • 2D animation
  • Rive animation
  • After Effects
  • Lottie
  • Creative coding
  • Compositing
  • Video editing
  • Tutorial production
  • Content creation
Maksym Marakhovskyi in a burgundy overshirt

Experience

Reface

– Present(1 year 7 months)
I build interactive characters in Rive for BitePal and Lightly (formerly Honestly). In BitePal’s onboarding, the raccoon writes when someone picks an answer, then settles back into its idle pose. I work with engineers on the inputs and transitions that make these moments feel natural in the app.

KERO studio

– (8 months)
I worked on motion and Rive projects for Patrick Foxy and the studio’s own productions. As a compositor in After Effects, I took the team’s designs and character animation through the final shot under director Elmar Aleskerov.

Surprise.app

– (2 years)
I designed motion for the mobile app, from the Surprise egg in onboarding to game banners for Trivia Clash and Trivia Royale. I delivered onboarding sequences as Lottie animations and worked with engineers to get the timing right in the app.

Motion Design School

– (1 year)
I created Rive: Interactive Motion, a hands-on course that starts with a bouncing ball and builds up to rigged characters, state machines and scenes that follow the cursor. The Expressive Bird animation is one of the promos I made for the course.
– (4 years)
As a full-time motion designer, I animated loops for the Crazy Shapes promo and the Illustration for Motion course page. I also wrote, animated and produced lessons, including a tutorial on animated lettering, and mentored students.