VITO, the VITON¹³ mascot: a baby snake with eighteen moods, stickers and an intro film

Give VITON¹³ a character that can speak for the brand where a logo cannot: in chats, comments and short videos. The result is VITO, the VITON¹³ mascot: a baby snake with oversized eyes, a blush and a pink tongue, rendered like a frame from an animated film. He is our own internal work, made in one day, on 10 October 2026.

His colourway is the studio’s own: pearl-white scales, tangerine-orange patches with a thin black outline and a black tail tip. Three colours that stay readable at the size of an emoji, on a white chat or a black one.

We made eighteen moods of one character, an intro film and the files that carry him into chats. Five moods (hello, angry, in love, laughing and crying) are real 3D clips, each generated as a six-second video; the other thirteen are still renders moved by code: a bounce, a heartbeat, a shiver.

From one set of frames we export animated stickers and 100-pixel emoji in the format Telegram accepts, transparent GIFs and animated WebP for the web. The intro film, “Meet VITO”, runs 19.5 seconds in a vertical 1080 × 1920 frame, with English titles and a soundtrack synthesised in code.

We started from one reference picture and a single rule: he must look alive. The poses were generated by an AI image model as sheets of nine on a green background, with the previous sheet as the reference so the character does not drift. The colourway was changed by editing a finished sheet, which kept every pose in place.

Each pose is cut out by our own keying script, which also removes the green spill on the edges. The five clips are generated by an AI video model from the still pose and keyed the same way; the motion of the other thirteen, the exports and the film’s soundtrack are our code. The film itself is built as an HTML scene and rendered frame by frame.

Eighteen moods of one consistent character, five of them animated in 3D, and a 19.5-second vertical film that introduces him: “Meet VITO. The new face of VITON¹³⁠.” The film was published on Instagram, @viton13company, on 10 October 2026 with an AI label.

The stickers already work in the chat of our portfolio site, tarasovvitalii.com: a sticker travels as a short text token and both sides see the picture. The Telegram sticker and emoji files are prepared to the platform’s limits (512 and 100 pixels, up to 3 seconds, under 256 KB); the pack itself is not published yet.

VITO is our own mascot: internal work, not a client commission. He was made in one day and there are no usage numbers; the case claims no clients and no revenue. The mascot shares his name with VITO bonuses, the bonus points of VITON¹³ accounts, and is not the points programme.

The stills and the five clips are generated with AI image and video models from our prompts and references, not modelled and rigged by hand: there is no 3D model file, and a new pose means a new generation. His first look followed a reference picture chosen by the founder; the colourway, the poses and the film are ours. Thirteen of the eighteen stickers are still renders moved by code, not animation of the character itself. The chat screen in the gallery is a preview with sample data, not a real conversation.

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