Still a bit late on this. I have a tendency to put off playblasts until beyond the last minute. But this lil cinematic just before gameplay is Body Language Done. All that's left is to do facial animation and some adjustments to the title sequence. Next post will have all 3 animations with facial animation and polish up.
The biggest question is how I'm going to render this out for my portfolio. I think I might just set up some simple lights and render it out in Viewport 2.0 in maya, since you can still get some good results in that. Which means I'll have to set aside some time in order to get that done. I'm probably going to be working on that all weekend.