Character Design & Animation Intern
Plant With Olive
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About the Role
Olive is an AI-powered plant care and community app. The internship involves working with the design team to refresh the app's four mascots and bring them to life with interactive animation in Rive. You will receive mentorship and regular feedback, and complete the internship with shipped work in a live product for your portfolio.
What You'll Work On
- Refreshing the four mascots with guidance from the design team, refining personality, shape, and color to work as a set.
- Creating a simple expression sheet for each character.
- Learning and building a small set of Rive animations, such as an idle loop, a welcome moment, and a few reactions for weekly plant check-ins.
- Joining design reviews and observing animation implementation in a real app.
What You'll Get
- Mentorship from the design team, with weekly check-ins and feedback.
- Hands-on experience with Rive, including state machines.
- Portfolio pieces from a live, shipped product, credited to you.
- A reference letter on successful completion.
Who We're Looking For
- A current student, ideally graduating in 2027, studying illustration, animation, or design.
- A portfolio with original character design work.
- A good grasp of shape, silhouette, and expression.
- Comfort in a vector tool (e.g., Illustrator, Figma, or similar).
- Interest in animation. Experience with Rive, Lottie, or After Effects is a plus, but not required as training will be provided.
- Bonus: Interest in plants.
Schedule & Details
- Unpaid internship
- Part-time, up to 20 hours a week.
- Fully remote.
- Flexible around your class schedule.
- Duration: 4 months.