I would say it depends on who is visiting your portfolio. You need to consider for what you are applying for. In the case of programming, what does a super-looking model says about your programming skills? Animations? The same question in this case. If it were me, i would ignore animations or if its really not possible create a very very simple one… In terms of programming you could set a hook which would fire a animation (even if there are none yet) to show that you assume at this point it time to update an animation before moving on with the game logic.
Of course if your game looks nice it wouldnt hurt, but you should concentrate on the logic first. Usually we programmers tend to be proud of codelines because: “We are programmer, we make computers beep beep bop”