Smiling Rick in Figma

I wanted to test Figma’s animation features on something I knew well, and Rick’s smile from Rick and Morty seemed right for a small experiment.

I studied the character design from the show, then rebuilt him with Figma’s vector tools. The animation is two frames, neutral and smiling, with a smooth transition between them.

The result captures Rick’s expression in a clean, scalable format, and it shows you don’t need complex motion software to experiment with animation.