Character Design & Animation Intern

Olive is an AI-powered plant care and community app. It helps everyday plant owners keep their plants alive, build confidence, and connect with local plant shops. Our core feature, the Dynamic Care Guide, works like this: users snap a weekly photo of their plant and log a few quick observations, and Olive turns that into a personalized care guide that changes as the plant grows. We recently completed the gBETA accelerator, in partnership with Meta.

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The internship Olive has four mascots, and they shape how the app feels. In this internship, you’ll work with our design team to refresh them and learn to bring them to life with interactive animation in Rive. You’ll get mentorship and regular feedback, and you’ll finish with shipped work in a live product for your portfolio.
What you’ll work onRefreshing our four mascots with guidance from our design team, refining personality, shape, and color so they work as a setCreating a simple expression sheet for each characterLearning and building a small set of Rive animations, such as an idle loop, a welcome moment, and a few reactions for weekly plant check-insJoining design reviews and seeing how animation gets implemented in a real app
What you’ll getMentorship from our design team, with weekly check-ins and feedbackHands-on experience with Rive, including state machinesPortfolio pieces from a live, shipped product, credited to youA reference letter on successful completion
Who we’re looking forA current student, ideally graduating in 2027, studying illustration, animation, or designA portfolio with original character design workA good grasp of shape, silhouette, and expressionComfort in a vector tool (Illustrator, Figma, or similar)Interest in animation. Rive, Lottie, or After Effects experience is a plus, but you don’t need it. We’ll help you learn.Bonus: you like plants. xzbcwsv You’ll be drawing a lot of leaves.

Schedule & detailsUnpaid internshipPart-time, up to 20 hours a weekFully remoteFlexible around your class schedule4 months