Character Animation with Full Lip Sync (Rive) for Mobile

Another exciting challenge, another chance to collaborate with an amazing team, and I loved every moment!

In this project, the character enjoys complete freedom of expression, not just a limited set of preset phrases. Every animation was crafted to make interactions feel natural, dynamic, and full of personality.

Working in a team with an illustrator, a developer and our wonderful project coordinator, we created a personal assistant that sings, dances and, most importantly, can pronounce any AI-generated phrases, demonstrating perfect synchronisation with the spoken sounds.

The animations were created for the Bosslife Invesment project, which is a fun platform translating the stock market for a new generation.

For this project, I created several Rive state machines of varying complexity that can be fully controlled by the developer.

I created animations of character appearance, greeting, and encouraging user actions.

It was also necessary to create animations that would be shown to the user while waiting for certain software tasks to be completed.

Here we were inspired by the famous popular dances from the Fortnight game. When our cute Crystal dances, it looks like a little girl learning in front of the TV to repeat the dance steps of adult dancers.

And I am very happy that I was able to achieve such an effect. After all, the main task of this character and these animations is to convey serious and often boring information to users in a fun and entertaining way.

Working on the lip synchronisation of the character, the illustrator and I created all the necessary states of lip, teeth and tongue positions, which I then included as separate animations in the state machine and handed it over to the developer to continue this work afterwards on their side. I also created an animation of the character magically appearing out of a crystal ball when a click event occurs on that object in the mobile app.

Here is a link to this project on my client's web site: http://bosslife.investments