Prowess
This is what we’re built to do.
Some clients come for one thing. Others unleash the whole arsenal. Either way, our Prowess turns brands into living, breathing icons — built to sell, scale and stick in culture.
From strategy to storytelling, character design to animation, branding to naming — Zookeeper’s prowess is turning brands into assets that last. Every project gets the same mix of sharp strategy, fearless creativity and Zoo-level craft.
1. Strategy & Story
Before we draw a frame, we get the story straight.
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Brand Strategy — positioning, messaging and narrative frameworks that give your brand a heartbeat
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Discovery / Workshops (Zoolab™) — live strategic sprints to uncover what moves your audience
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Audience Personas & Segmentation — not nicknames, but real emotional drivers and profiles
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Naming — products, companies, or campaigns that stick, spark and scale
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Messaging Systems — storylines and language calibrated for every channel
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Voice & Tone (EchoType™) — a voice system that sounds unmistakably you everywhere
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Narrative Spine / Story Development — arcs that carry across campaigns, platforms and years
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Launch Planning (LaunchLoom™) — rollout strategies that actually land
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Campaign Strategy & Creative Direction
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Competitive Audits & Opportunity Mapping
2. Branding & Identity
Your brand needs more than a logo — it needs a face, a system and a heartbeat.
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Logo & Mark Design — iconic, motion-ready marks built to last
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Visual Identity Systems — color, type, grid and design rules that scale
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Brand Guidelines & Toolkits — flexible, usable playbooks for internal and external teams
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Motion-First Identity — branding designed to move across every screen
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Campaign Branding & Seasonal Identities
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Packaging Design — characters and marks that leap off the shelf
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Environmental & Experiential Design — from events to retail to real-world spaces
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Web & Digital Brand Systems — UI identity and interaction design
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Brand Refreshes & Rebrands
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Brand Experience Design — merch, swag, touchpoints
3. Characters & IP
Most mascots are costumes. Ours are assets.
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Character Design (CharacterCode™) — mascots, icons and campaign heroes engineered to endure
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Spokes-Characters — living ambassadors audiences rally around
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Illustration — original, ownable artwork that makes your brand unmistakable
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Campaign Heroes — characters designed to carry entire platforms
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Story Systems — narratives that scale across screens, campaigns and years
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IP Development — building character-driven intellectual property that lasts
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Storyworld / Universe Building
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Character Animation Systems — poses, turnarounds, motion bibles
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Licensing & IP Extension Guidance
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Fandom Engagement — character assets that fuel communities
4. Animation & Motion
From snackable loops to full broadcast, we make brands move.
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2D Animation — flat, bold, fast-moving characters and stories
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3D Animation — cinematic depth and realism when the story demands scale
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Mixed Media — blending illustration, live action and motion
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Explainer Videos — complex ideas, made clear and entertaining
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Commercials / Brand Spots — broadcast-ready with characters at the center
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Social Content — snackable animations designed for feeds and shares
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Broadcast Design & Show Opens — motion work for networks, sports and entertainment
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Motion Graphics — kinetic type, design-in-motion, system-driven graphics
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Infographics in Motion — data turned into story fuel
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Lower Thirds & Titles — seamless broadcast polish
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Music Videos — animated worlds set to sound
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Sports Mascot Animation — from Gritty to Southpaw, characters that win fans for life
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UI/UX Animation — digital motion that enhances usability and brand feel
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AR / VR / Interactive — motion built for immersive platforms
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Interactive Animation — web, apps, games
5. Production & Post
Where craft meets speed.
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Concept Development & Treatments
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Scriptwriting
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Storyboarding — mapping the visual spine before anything moves
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Animatics — rough motion tests to nail timing and flow
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Voiceover Production — casting, recording and direction
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Sound Design & Music — scoring and SFX that amplify story
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Editing & Assembly — seamless layer integration
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Compositing & VFX
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Color Correction / Grading — polish that makes brands pop
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Rendering & Delivery — optimized for every screen and platform
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