Design to delivery · 2-3 weeks
Most buyers have never watched a mascot being made. Here is the whole thing, partly because it is worth seeing, and mostly because it explains the difference between a suit that gets signed off and one that comes back.
How a mascot is made
The whole build, one stage at a time.
01
Design and approval
We work from your artwork and your guideline, or we draw the character with you. You sign off a build-ready design before a single panel is cut: proportions, colours, materials, how the thing goes together. Nothing about the finished suit should surprise you.
02
Patterning
The character gets translated into a pattern that works on a human body. Nobody ever sees this stage, and it is the one that decides whether the mascot moves like a character or like a person in a costume.
03
The head
Cut from flat foam to the pattern and built up piece by piece until the character's shape is there, around what the performer has to see and breathe. Hardest part of the job, the part every photograph is aimed at, and the first thing a brand team looks at.
04
The body, hands and feet
Padded and shaped to the character’s proportions, then cut to the measurements of the person who will be inside it.
05
Fur and finishing
Fur laid and direction-matched, markings placed against your guideline, airbrush shading wherever the character needs depth.
06
Fit, QC and delivery
Somebody puts it on. Vision, airflow, range of movement, and how long a person can genuinely last in it. Then photographed, packed and sent to any city in the country.
Photographs go out as the build moves, at the stages where something could still be changed cheaply. You can forward them to your client without editing anything.
By the time the suit is finished, nobody on your side is seeing it for the first time. That is the whole point of doing it this way.
Throughout
Every stage is photographed as it happens, so approval is a series of small, cheap decisions instead of one expensive moment at the end.
Standard build time is 2-3 weeks from the design you approve, against six to eight elsewhere in this market. Tell us the date in your first message and you will get a real answer on it.
Tell us what you need built.
Send the character, the date and how many units. If the date cannot be done, you will hear that on the first reply, before you build a plan around us.
- Workshop
- R-248, Near Mustafa Mosque, Shadman Town 14-A
- City
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Build time
- 2-3 weeks from approved design