Quality
Completeness
Design Exploration
5
UX Design
n/a
UI Generation
n/a
UI Craft
6
Design for AI
n/a
Prototyping
n/a
Design Systems
n/a
Contributing Code
n/a
Best for
Cavalry enables procedural, data-driven animations that would be tedious in traditional tools.
Strengths
- Procedural animation (systems that animate themselves)
- Data-driven design (Google Sheets import)
- Native features without plugins
- ~200-600% faster than After Effects for complex scenes
- Native Lottie export
Weaknesses
- Learning curve for procedural approach
- 2D only (though 2.5D cameras supported)
- Subscription only (no perpetual license)
- Smaller ecosystem than After Effects
- Desktop only (no web version)