In the works in this one I was set to make animations for 3 separate projects. A Text Project, a Symbol Project and a Character Projects. I was assigned this task by a studio that makes limited use of mesh tool to keep their animations optimized for their web based slots games and I let that be a guiding rule for making the rigs and animations for these works. While I was provided pre-cut 2D assets for the symbol and character I was assigned to make all assets for the Text animation which I did using Photoshop and Maya for the rotating chips sequence. I was able to make the Text and Symbol rigs without needing to do any complex mesh based effects for 2.5 as I felt the character acting in the symbol's character would work well enough with out it and the visual playfullness of the JACKPOT is just playing with sqaush and stretch.

The Character has a tail and felt like rigging it to move like one, instead of keeping it stiff with one bone, would make the beleivability of its actions read better. Instead of cutting it into multiple kb image files I decided it would be more optimal to just make a simple mesh and animate the tail with it.

Many thanks again to Crazy Tooth Studio for providing the assets for the Symbol and the Dragon Knight