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FERO - Untamed Energy šÆ
Most energy brands scream at you. FERO doesn't have to.
FERO is a fictional energy bar built on one idea: real energy doesn't need to prove itself. So instead of another hyped-up mascot throwing lightning bolts and shouting about gains, I built the opposite - the chill-est predator alive. A tiger with a permanent half-lidded stare who's already ahead of you and can't be bothered to mention it. The name says everything: "easy, tiger" - too much energy, worn like it's nothing š„
Then I built his entire world around him. One character, one attitude, stretched across a complete identity system - every asset unmistakably FERO, from the shelf to the street to the screen.
The character
A soft-matte designer-toy tiger - cute, collectible, and quietly convinced he's the best thing in the room. Cocky but never loud. I pushed him through a full expression range (smug, hyped, unbothered, mid-bite) so he holds his personality in any moment, not just one pose.
The identity
š„ A custom wordmark hand-built from real tiger fur - orange and black, tactile, alive
šØ Tiger Orange, Warm Black, Cream - his own coat doing the branding before a single word is read
š§© A flat-vector system for the small stuff, a rich 3D world for the hero moments, two formats, one tiger
The applications
š¦ Packaging - Peanut, Almond & Cranberry. Real fruit, real nuts, zero chill
š¼ļø Poster & environmental - FERO in the wild, where he belongs
š·ļø Stickers & merch - the whole personality, ready to stick and wear
š„¤ A custom FERO vending machine dropped into a real street
š¬ A full motion ad - one bite, zero to feral. "Some chase energy. You just bite."
The point
Same tiger, every touchpoint - packaging, poster, merch, motion, all speaking one language. That's the whole game: one mascot carrying an entire brand through consistency, attitude, and a world that actually holds together.
šÆ Character Brief
Name: FERO
Role: The chill-est predator alive
Personality: Cocky, dry, effortless, confident, unbothered - and always a step ahead.
FERO believes energy isn't something you chase - it's something you already have. One bite before a skate session or just walking through the world like he owns it, FERO's a reminder that the strongest move is never looking like you're trying.
š Full project in Recraft: https://www.recraft.ai/project/e350424f-5c7c-4e2f-829b-600a224c9981
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BRAYD: The Braided Focus Flame š„
BRAYD is an original mascot created for BURN THE TASK, a fictional productivity ritual brand built around focus, completion, and quiet discipline.
Rather than designing a cute candle character, I built a full mascot system around one clear visual behavior: focused time burns into completion. BRAYD is a braided wick core inside a faceted wax body. As a task progresses, the wick burns down, the wax form changes through clear stages, and the final braided strand becomes a checkmark.
The mascot was designed to stay recognizable across every touchpoint, from the custom wordmark and hero poster to the sticker system, focus ritual packaging, burn sequence, and consistency board. Every asset uses the same visual DNA: the same braided wick, the same faceted wax body, the same angular flame, and the same final checkmark.
This project explores how a single mascot can become the face of a fictional productivity world by turning an abstract idea, focus, into a visual ritual.
Character Brief
Name: BRAYD
Role: The Braided Focus Flame
Personality: quiet, intense, disciplined, stubborn, focused, and encouraging without being soft.
BRAYD does not rush you and does not distract you. He simply burns with you until the task is done. His braided wick represents focused effort, his faceted wax body represents pressure and progress, and his final checkmark represents completion earned through attention.
Recraft Project
Explore the full project here:
Applications Included
The BRAYD system includes a custom name logo, hero poster, sticker pack, focus ritual packaging, burn to checkmark sequence, and a final consistency board showing the mascot across multiple moments and touchpoints.
Proof of Consistency
Same wick. Same facets. Same flame. Same final checkmark.
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RORO is a small axolotl-like creature born in the underground world ā curious, fearless, and always searching for what lies beyond the next doorway.
Armed with a lantern and endless wonder, RORO travels between dimensions without ever losing itself. That's the whole point.
This is the mascot for RORO ā an imaginary t-shirt brand built around one character and infinite worlds.
THE CHARACTER RORO is slate blue with coral-red feathery gills and dark sharp spikes. Slightly mysterious. Slightly mischievous. Completely unafraid. The kind of character you'd recognize on a poster, a sticker, a packaging label, or a tiny thumbnail ā and know immediately who it is.
TWO SERIES RORO BRAND:
1. WORLDS ā each print places RORO inside a different dimension: ocean depths, crystal caves, alien landscapes, surrealist architecture. The world changes. The character never does.
2. RORO STATES ā each print captures RORO mid-adventure: steampunk biker, monster fighter, underground cartographer, volcanic onsen dreamer. One character. Infinite sides.
Together the two series create a brand universe that can expand forever without losing coherence.
Every world has a story.
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Such a fun character! I love how you built an entire brand world around one mascot. It feels memorable and full of personalityš
MĆL THE SEAL ā Remote Work Solutions for Tired Creative People
Meet Mel: a sleepy harbor seal built from lavender raff, client revisions, lofi beats, low battery mode, and tiny wins.
What started as a small painting of a seal with cosmic eyes became a full mascot-led brand world. I developed Melās personality, origin story, visual identity, comic series, emotional language, packaging, merch, stickers, social content, and a card game for freelancers surviving the workday.
The goal was to create more than a cute mascot. Mel needed to feel like the same character everywhere: in a comic panel, on a coffee cup, inside a sticker pack, on a hoodie, and in a tiny animated moment of client-revision panic.
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Character exploration, reference-image workflows, V4.1 Vector identity studies, packaging and merchandise applications, social assets, storyboards, and image-to-video experiments.
Always tired. Often late. Still shows up.
Full Case Study: https://www.recraft.ai/project/2a11d3ab-1851-4c5e-b259-3e3a54b46633
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This character represents my turbulent introvert soul!!!I like it very much!!!Are you planning to make it as a telegram sticker? If yes, I'm willing to buy it!
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