JOHANSONESTEDT

Animation director
Game animator

JOHAN SONESTEDT

People & the craft is my passion

Pet Panic
Game animation
2023-2025

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The brief

Pet Panic was a match-3 game about rescuing Luna the cat and Buddy the dog. I developed the character animation system, from initial expressions and rigging to 30+ animations and win/lose sequences, built for thousands of avatar combinations.

Skills
Character DesignExpression DesignSpineCharacter Rigging2D AnimationGame Animation
Role

Character Animator & Animation Supervisor. I defined the characters’ emotional range, rigged the animals in Spine, animated Buddy and developed a flexible animation system for player avatars with thousands of possible combinations.

Pet Panic key art with the cat and dog characters and the game logo
Pencil expression sheet of the cat character in nine poses
Luna — expression sheet
Gameplay
Avatar rig — Spine recording
Avatar setup
Sketch sheet of nineteen female avatar haircuts
Avatar haircuts
Cat pattern selector
Sketch sheet of male avatar facial expressions
Avatar expression sheet
Sketch sheet of male avatar beard and moustache options
Beards & moustaches
Win sequence
Sketch sheet of female avatar emoji expressions
Avatar emoji set
Intro reference for Unity. The avatar got their colors from the engine and the pets were changed depending on the players.
A BIT ABOUT JOHAN

Making things
move for a living.

Animation direction, motion design, character animation and all the curious bits in between.

More about me ↗
THE NEXT FRAME

LET’S MAKE
SOMETHING MOVE.

Have a project in mind? Email me at johan@cinematic.se.