# Mascot Story Studio

> Your brand mascot in a 15-second story for social that ends on your product: animal, style and render-quality pickers fix the mascot, Voice Design fixes its…

Source: https://nodaro.ai/docs/templates/mascot-story-studio

**Mascot Story Studio** is a ready-made Nodaro workflow in social creatives. Your brand mascot in a 15-second story for social that ends on your product: animal, style and render-quality pickers fix the mascot, Voice Design fixes its voice, a product photo closes the story, and the story is the only thing you change — three scenes in three places, six numbered frames rendered as one continuous take, one score added at the end.

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| Category | Social creatives |
| Makes | video |
| Models | [GPT Image 2](https://nodaro.ai/docs/models/image/gpt-image-2), [Seedance 2.5](https://nodaro.ai/docs/models/video/seedance-2-5) |
| Nodes | 23 |
| Estimated cost of one run | About 1,288 credits, the price of its models when the template was saved |
| Level | Advanced |

[Open Mascot Story Studio in Nodaro](https://app.nodaro.ai/templates?template=mascot-story-studio-50oy83)

## How it works
**Mascot Story Studio**

Your brand mascot in a 15-second story for social — the same character, the same voice, a new story every week. Pickers fix the mascot's look, Voice Design fixes its voice, a product photo closes every episode, and the story is the only node you change to make the next one.

**Business use:** a brand with a character (a food brand, a farm, a kids' product, an app) that wants a steady stream of short mascot films for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts without redrawing the character each time. The demo: a white lion, mascot of a strawberry farm, who loves strawberries — and finds the farm's crate at the end.

1. **Pickers + Notes + Product + Story** — Animal, Style and Render quality pickers, one line of notes (colour, age, what it carries), a photo of the product the story ends on, and this week's story; one image node turns the pickers into the mascot's character design.
2. **Story beats** — the mascot described from the design, the look, three scenes of two frames each — the last frame shows the mascot with the product exactly as photographed — the narration and the music.
3. **Character sheet → Frames 1–6** — the sheet fixes the mascot once; the six frames copy it.
4. **Timeline script → one take** — one prompt over the six numbered frames; one Seedance 2.5 node renders the whole 15 seconds in a single generation, silent, with the scene changes cut inside it.
5. **Voice + score → mix** — sound is added once, at the end: Voice Design speaks the narration in the mascot's voice; Suno writes one score; Merge lays both under the take.

## Step by step
### Step 1

Animal, Style and Render quality are picker nodes: the Character design prompt places each one by name — \{Animal\}, \{Style\}, \{Render quality\} — and every tile you pick becomes a line of prompt. Pick once, and every story keeps the same mascot; swap a tile — lion to fox, 3D to watercolour — and the whole series follows. The notes add what pickers can't: colour, age, what it carries.

### Step 1

The story in a few lines: what the mascot wants, where it goes, how it ends — usually with what you sell. The beats keep your events and your ending. Change only this node to make the next episode.

### Step 2

Three scenes, two frames each, narration and music. The two frames of a scene share the place, the light and the camera — they differ only by what the hero does in five seconds. Edit a frame by hand and rerun from it.

### Step 3

The sheet fixes the hero once; the six frames copy it. Rerun one frame alone for another take.

### Step 4

A director turns the beats into one prompt — "0-5s: opens on @Image 1 … settles into @Image 2, cut to @Image 3 …" — and ONE Seedance 2.5 node receives the six frames as references in order and renders the whole 15 seconds in a single generation, silent. The two scene changes are cuts the model makes itself, so grade and light stay matched. Never render scenes as separate clips and glue them: the joins never match, and a per-clip soundtrack jumps at every cut.

### Step 5–6

Sound is added once, at the end, over the whole film. The narration is lifted from the beats in the hero's own words, and Voice Design speaks it with a creature voice built from one line of description — change the line to change the voice: a growl, a squeak, an old storyteller. A one-sentence brief goes to Suno, and Trim cuts the score to 15 seconds. Merge lays the voice (loud) and one score (quieter) under the take.

### Step 1

A clean photo of what you sell — a crate, a box, a pack. The story ends on it: Frame 6 shows the mascot with the product exactly as photographed, in the film's style.

## What it made
Results that the template made in Nodaro. Your results follow your own inputs.

  
![Character design, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/3773b607-0e70-4d8e-886b-8833fc41972e.png)

Character design

  
![Character sheet, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/99c5ff43-212d-49fb-92ae-dce6690d2bfe.png)

Character sheet

  
![Frame 1, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/e199362c-fa44-499f-a461-dcd28ccc5471.png)

Frame 1

  
![Frame 2, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/82105e16-a1eb-496a-830f-18e4d76ce65a.png)

Frame 2

  
![Frame 3, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/96406b3c-12bf-49a7-8a81-fc9b2beed528.png)

Frame 3

  
![Frame 4, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/77e3566a-2285-41d1-a825-d2068c6e6fc8.png)

Frame 4

Video: [Narrated film](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/videos/dbd32ae4-a67f-4767-aa8a-d4d54af6f720.mp4)
Audio: [Hero's voice](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/audios/4e03c53b-cfe2-4548-a7d1-1b6ca66aed24.mp3)
  
![Frame 5, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/bf1ca87b-b8f3-4eb5-ac9d-ed2eda81cf5c.png)

Frame 5

  
![Frame 6, made by the Mascot Story Studio template](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/cdn-cgi/image/width=640,format=auto,quality=80/images/e4570f32-9e0d-4c86-962b-154aa3c6af0b.png)

Frame 6

Video: [The film](https://cdn.nodaro.ai/videos/596313b9-aedd-4645-bf42-256afc1afee6.mp4)

## Nodes in this template
The template is a workflow of 23 nodes. Each node below links to its page:

- [Generate Image](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/image/generate-image): 8
- [Prompt](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/automate/prompt): 4
- [Text](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/automate/text): 2
- [Animal](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/creative-controls/animal): 1
- [Generate Video](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/video/generate-video): 1
- [Merge Video & Audio](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/video/merge-video-audio): 1
- [Render Quality](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/creative-controls/render-quality): 1
- [Style](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/creative-controls/style): 1
- [Suno Create Music](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/audio/suno-create-music): 1
- [Trim Audio](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/audio/trim-audio): 1
- [Upload Image](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/image/upload-image): 1
- [Voice Design](https://nodaro.ai/docs/nodes/audio/voice-design): 1

## Use this template
1. [Open the template in Nodaro](https://app.nodaro.ai/templates?template=mascot-story-studio-50oy83) and click **Clone & customize**. Nodaro copies it into My Workflows.
2. Replace the inputs with your own: Your product.
3. Click **Run**. The editor shows the price before anything runs.

[Templates](https://nodaro.ai/docs/templates) lists every template, and [Choosing a model](https://nodaro.ai/docs/guides/choosing-models) helps when you swap a model.

## Frequently asked questions

### What does the Mascot Story Studio template make?

Your brand mascot in a 15-second story for social that ends on your product: animal, style and render-quality pickers fix the mascot, Voice Design fixes its voice, a product photo closes the story, and the story is the only thing you change — three scenes in three places, six numbered frames rendered as one continuous take, one score added at the end.

### How much does one run of Mascot Story Studio cost?

About 1,288 credits, the price of its models when the template was saved. The editor shows the current price before you run it, and you pay only for the nodes that run.

### Which models does Mascot Story Studio use?

GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2.5. You can switch any of them on the canvas after you clone the template.

### Do I need to build a workflow to use Mascot Story Studio?

No. Clone the template, replace its inputs with your own and click Run. The workflow is already built and connected.
