duo-character-systems

Build a reusable cast, illustration style, animation vocabulary and avatar system that a small team can actually produce at volume, and make those assets do product work instead of decorating it. Covers choosing a visual style by production throughput, silhouette-first mark design, deriving new characters from shared construction rules, where to spend expensive delight assets, how much craft a celebration animation needs, transformation versus props for milestones, testing a central metaphor for cross-cultural legibility, reviewing art that depicts real groups of people, and porting a 2D identity into 3D or a generated pipeline. Use when someone says "should we have a mascot", "our illustrations look inconsistent", "redesign our logo so it reads at icon size", "we need characters for onboarding", "build an avatar creator", or "does this milestone deserve an animation".

Version

2.0.0

License

MIT