Mascot, appearance and motion

Round 2 - mascot (backlog)

The approved stills, moving, in the few places that earn it

Where Qoloa appears

Place	Still	Motion	Size	Decision
First-run welcome	idle	Breath, loops	160 pt	Keep
Day kept	celebrate	One hop, sparks fade in and out	176 pt	Keep
Return after two weeks or more	recover	One slow sink, then rests	104 pt	New
Empty Saved, other empty states	idle	Breath, loops	120 pt	Keep
Ask Qoloa header, thinking	idle, head crop	None	36 pt	Change
Qoloa Plus	encourage	None	160 pt	Keep
Word by word header, card reason slot, Loot header	none	The title is text. No mascot.	-	Remove

At small sizes

Now. The curious still with its ledge prop.

Instead. A head crop of the idle still.

At 34 to 40 pt the ledge reads as a cropped box with a head on it. A round head crop keeps the face, the stripes and the ears, and drops the prop.

A mascot that appears in every header is decoration. It appears where something happened.

BreathdurationBreath 3200 ms

Scale 1.000 to 1.015 from the bottom edge. Transform only. Loops only on the welcome and empty states.

HopdurationHop 640 ms

Crouch 2 pt, rise 14 pt, land, small rebound. Once per Day kept, with the spark layer fading in and out.

SinkdurationSheet x 2

Drops 4 pt and comes back, once, on the welcome-back card. No scolding, no loop.

Now, this round

Native transforms on the five approved stills, the appearance budget above, the head crop. No new art, no new runtime. Under Reduce Motion a state change is a cut.

Next, the real mascot

A layered vector master of the approved art, rigged in Rive with one state machine for iOS and Android, or a commissioned artist for the eight states. Gate: side-by-side with the approved still at 96 and 200 pt, two people, every state reads as its name, 60 fps, one runtime version, device proof.

Not shipping

The Blender renders (qoloa3d_*) stay as reference. They pass the outline and colour tests and still read as a different, less appealing character. Nothing in the app loads them.