Pear Practice

Pear Practice, a gamified lessons tool, uses an avatar system for its users. After aiding in its prototype phase my role involved updating its inventory system, designing and rigging assets, skeleton optimization, animation, and providing additional assets throughout the Pear Practice website.

My main toolset included Spine, Adobe Suite and Rive.


Pear Practice carries over 1000 collectible assets, most of which I rigged and half I helped design.


Our userbase is mainly teachers and their students, and my team pride itself in listening to them. We included collectables they requested with each unveiled season. Most requests came from students through doodles on ruled notebook paper, and our most creative request was through a poem!


In addition to stocking a robust inventory, we focused on fine tuning a product that offered a large range of representation to better serve classrooms.


This gave way to vast amounts of configuration for our users, who regularly expressed their satisfaction with our avatar system.

Using Spine I optimized avatar skeletons from prototype and built the system’s animation library with over 250 instances for lesson plans, classroom game sets and a photo setting (users loved that feature to exhibit their creativity, including the adults!).



Monthly challenges and progression systems complete with stories and animation helped improve player engagement. The following are a sample of assets made for those strategies.


Map markers for Pear Practice Season 2 - Photoshop & Illustrator

Map transition for Pear Practice Season 5 – Illustrator & Rive

December 2023 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

May 2024 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

October 2024 Monthly Challenge Victory Slate

October 2023 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

September 2023 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

Map transition for Pear Practice Season 5 – Illustrator & Rive

Map transition for Pear Practice Season 5 – Illustrator & Rive


June 2024 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

Feb 2024 Monthly Challenge Victory Slate

July 2024 Monthly Challenge Start Slate

July 2023 Monthly Challenge Victory Slate

January 2025 Monthly Challenge Start Slate