Cartoon design of mascot and animate it from these designs

Upcoming project - I am looking for someone to draw a mascot into a family friendly cartoon style and then to animate it, with short animations (not yet decided) for use in a smartphone app and on a website. The app animations are to have the mascot reacting and gesturing to the app user through the screen.

The amount and type of animations are yet to be decided but there will not be more that 8 animations, very short no more that 5-10 seconds each.

I have included a photo of the mascot for reference purposes

The project will hopefully begin in about 3-4 weeks from today (24/02/23)

Thanks for looking!