Pennie Mascot Animation Project

Pennie AI is a personal finance app that helps users track budgets, detect unusual charges, and manage their spending automatically. The brief was straightforward — bring Pennie, the brand mascot, to life through animation to elevate the product and make the character feel expressive and alive within the app.

I collaborated with Franky on this project, who delivered exceptionally clean and well structured mascot designs across multiple poses and expressions, giving me a solid foundation to animate from. Because the character needed a flexible range of motion across different app states, I chose Rive as the animation tool. Its state machine system allowed me to build modular, responsive animations that developers could trigger contextually inside the app. The final product is live on both the Play Store and iOS Store.