A mattress company, Dreamy, requires a marketing campaign to launch an app that matches their customer’s weight, height, and age specifications with a perfect mattress. The voice actor has been adapted to sound cartoonish and cutesy and the campaign needs a character illustration and animation to reflect a sweet, approachable, and sleepy individual utilizing the brand slogan: Dream Better. 

The designed character is a sweet, approachable, and sleepy baby cow that reflects the cute cartoonish voice actor that the brand has chosen for the new campaign. The cow has rounded edges, a chubby body, big lopsided ears, and big dopey eyes that lend a cute and sweet countenance without being too childish. The cow is designed in the grey brand colour as well as black and white, while its eyes, ears, tail tip, and hooves match the brand blue colour palette featured in their logo creating a unique character that belongs to the Dreamy brand. This creates relatability to the wordmark and cohesion in the brand identity. The rigging and animation of the cow reinforces the character’s look and intentions, giving him a young and playful energy. The cow is situated in a night sky reinforcing the dream-like quality of the scene. The cow becomes sleepy after speaking the campaign audio “I can’t stop dreaming about you.” The scene then zooms out to reveal someone asleep in bed in their bedroom with the night sky seen through the window.  The scene highlights all of the items the campaign is hoping to showcase: a bed and mattress, a night sky/scene and references a dreamscape. The bedroom is decorated in the brand colours further creating cohesion in the scene while also lending the scene a night time aura. The bedroom scene plays on selected items of the nursery rhyme of ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ where the cow is associated with the moon relating to all audiences. This acts to reinforce the dreamscape of the scene. The scene fades out to the grey brand colour further creating a ethereal dreamscape where the clip reveals the brand wordmark and the brand slogan in the animation’s conclusion.