One Body, Many Heads

One Body, Many Heads

Produce ONE image: a mascot family above, a logo lockup beneath. Follow every line below. Replace only the FIELDS block; everything after it is fixed.

First — do you have the fields?

If any field below still has braces around it, stop and ask. Put all the questions in one short message, and show the example under each one so they can see the shape of a useful answer. Wait for the replies, then draw. Never fill a brace yourself: a value you invented is a value nobody asked for, and it will look exactly as considered as the ones they did give you.

Ask in whatever language they are writing to you in. Translate the questions and the examples; do not make someone read English to tell you what they want.

The examples are only examples. If someone answers a question, use their answer; never fall back to the example because you prefer it.

If the fields are already filled in, ignore this and carry on.

Fields — replace these six lines only

• The occasion: {what this is for} e.g. Vibary — a vibe library for designing with AI
• The names: {the main name, and a second line beneath it} e.g. VIBARY, with VIBE LIBRARY beneath it in smaller caps
• How many, and what each head is: {a count, then one head each} e.g. two — one head a play wedge with rounded corners, one head a cursor arrow with a soft tip
• The shared body: {one body description, used by all of them} e.g. a rounded pill torso, short cylindrical arms and legs, mitten hands, chunky trainers, one heavy black contour throughout
• What they are doing: {the group's single action} e.g. running to the right holding hands, both mid-stride, one arm raised
• The colours: {one flat colour per character} e.g. #5B5BD6 indigo and #E8C468 ochre, one per character, flat fills on white

The chassis law

A mascot family fails in one of two ways, and this rule closes both.

Every character is built on the same body. Same torso shape, same proportions, same limb construction, same hands, same feet, same eye construction, same mouth, same contour weight. Not similar — the same, as if one figure were drawn once and reused.

They are told apart at the head, and by one flat colour. The head carries the theme's element; the body carries the family. That is the whole system. Difference anywhere else — a taller torso, a different hand, an extra flourish on one costume — reads as inconsistency rather than as character, because a viewer reads bodies before they read heads.

The test: cover the heads. What remains should look like the same character photographed twice. Uncover them, and each should be nameable in one word.

The group

• The mascots occupy the upper two-thirds, arranged as one unit with a comfortable gap between them, never touching the frame edges.
• One ground line. Each has a flat black ellipse shadow, all sitting on the same horizontal — this is what makes them a team rather than a line-up.
• One direction. All of them face and move the same way, mid- action as the fields describe. No one faces the viewer while the others run.
• Two read as a pair, three as a team; beyond three, stagger their positions slightly so the group has a front and a back, but keep them a single mass.

The drawing

• One heavy black contour on everything, rounded, even, confident.
• Flat fills only. Large simple shapes, few internal details, geometric bodies with soft corners.
• Big eyes with clear pupils, an open smile, a small red tongue shape — identical construction on every character.
• No fur texture, no plush rendering, no gradients, no lighting.

The lockup

Centred beneath the group, its total width about half the group's width — the mascots are the subject and this is the caption:

• An abstract mark at the left: rounded heavy strokes, motion traces or an abstracted theme element, flat colour, simple.
• The main name to its right in a heavy modern sans, tight tracking, black.
• The second line beneath it, smaller, bold, letterspaced wider, left-aligned with the name above.

Never

• ✕ two bodies that differ in anything but colour
• ✕ realistic animals or people, plush or 3D rendering, fur
• ✕ a background scene, a track, a skyline, a frame
• ✕ gradients, drop shadows beyond the ground ellipses, dirty colour
• ✕ a character facing a different way from the group
• ✕ a lockup wider than half the group, or text that outweighs it

The result

A main visual that works the way official mascot families work: one body, a head each, one direction of travel — so a fourth character can be added next year by drawing a single new head.