This is my rigged character animation created for the Rive Character Challenge.🙌 Rive is an incredibly powerful and fun tool to work with!👍 👍 👍 This piece has been published to the Rive marketplace:

Features included in this project:https://rive.app/community/files/28152-53204-catcatcharacter-binding

1.Click anywhere on the screen to move the character. The character walks to nearby destinations and runs to faraway locations, with automatic directional detection.

2.A wardrobe panel pops up when the character stands inside the circular zone. You can swap hats, glasses, tops and bottoms. Drag the character to rotate it left or right.

3.The character’s gaze follows your mouse cursor. Its hands are draggable. Tapping the head triggers a tap animation; tapping it five times consecutively will activate an angry animation.

4.Click on the sofa, soccer ball, barbell and coffee machine in the scene, and the character will walk over and play a dedicated animation for each object.

Sheepy https://www.sheepyapp.com/ Rive · Webflow · Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop) · Figma

Sheepy is a digital wellness app focused on reducing screen time through a virtual pet a sheep that grows and thrives as the user cuts back on phone usage. I joined the project at an already advanced stage, with development teams already in place. The character previously existed as a social media persona, featured in storytelling-style posts showing Sheepy in everyday situations alongside other sheep. Building on that foundation, the decision was made to expand Sheepy from a social media character into a full multi-product brand: a social community, a habit-building app, interactive web experiences, and a presence in the crypto space through MoonSheep.

Role: Design Engineer. My main responsibility was translating ideas and brand concepts into finished products, under tight timelines and a high degree of creative freedom. The work moved across three fronts:

Building web pages in Webflow, using the Adobe Suite to create the necessary graphic assets, freeing up the design team to focus exclusively on the app's UI/UX. Converting audiovisual proposals (created by external teams) into interactive web formats using Rive.

Providing creative direction for the app design team, including full design, flow, and animation for the Onboarding experience.

Pieces built in Rive

Sheepy Helmet: An animation system designed as a visual "punishment" mechanic: when the user breaks their habit goals, the sheep receives an electric shock through a helmet, reinforcing the consequence of the action in a playful but clear way. https://rive.app/marketplace/16056-30242-sheepy-helmet/

Sheepy Emotions: A character emotion system built as a state machine, reflecting Sheepy's different moods based on the user's in-app behavior. https://rive.app/marketplace/16057-30243-sheepy-emotions/

MoonSheep Landing: An interactive landing page built in Rive for the MoonSheep launch, the brand's extension into the crypto ecosystem. https://rive.app/marketplace/16060-30248-moonsheep/

MoonSheep Base / Space Travel: Animated, interactive backgrounds designed to strengthen the narrative of the MoonSheep launch, framing the experience as a space journey a metaphor for the crypto project itself. https://rive.app/marketplace/16062-30250-moonsheep-base/ https://rive.app/marketplace/18516-34816-experience-space-travel/

Badges: A reward system animation featuring a medal/badge unlock mechanic, designed to celebrate user progress and reinforce positive habit-building behavior within the app. https://rive.app/marketplace/20213-38049-badges/

Outcome

This work allowed the Sheepy brand to remain coherent across multiple surfaces (app, web, crypto) while preserving a consistent personality and visual identity, without creating bottlenecks for the UI/UX design team thanks to a clear division of responsibilities.