Reference Examples

This chapter shows Sol Mamy’s visual identity in practice, using real produced images as illustrative examples. It distinguishes two things that are easy to conflate:

• Example — an image that illustrates a rule stated elsewhere in this book. Useful as a reference, not a formal sign-off.
• Approved reference — an image the owner has formally accepted as a canonical asset. None exist yet; every image below is an example, not an approved reference.

A produced image is never treated as canon on its own — where an image and this book’s written rules would ever disagree, the written rules win. (One visible instance of this: the front-portrait image below shows a pink bow on the right ear rather than the three-line rank glyph this book’s Flanking marks rule describes — the written rule is the standard; the image is kept as the example anyway because everything else in it is representative.)

The 8 images below have passed this project’s identity-verification check — a confirmed match to Sol Mamy’s canonical appearance, not just an illustration of a written rule. Additional images exist beyond these 8 and will be added to this chapter as they clear the same check.

Front, profile, and rear views

Each view below establishes a different structural fact — together they are the minimum set needed to build the character from any angle without guessing.

View	Image	What it proves
Front-facing portrait		Establishes the silhouette, face/helmet relationship, front wordmark + Status Crest placement, and base costume palette in one shot — the single most-referenced view in this book.
Three-quarter, left		Shows how the helmet, ears, and costume trim read off-axis, not just head-on.
Three-quarter, right		Same as above, mirrored — confirms the design is symmetric where it should be and intentionally asymmetric where it isn’t (see Flanking marks).
Side profile, bust		A bust/shoulder crop showing the helmet’s rounded side profile and ear opening, how the SOLMAMY wordmark and Status Crest read from a side angle, and the rear connector’s compact attachment point at the base of the neck. For the waist-to-hip curve and head-to-body ratio, see the full-body shot below instead.
Rear portrait, connector compact		Proves the third SOLMAMY wordmark location (back of helmet, above the connector) and the connector’s compact/at-rest state — the two facts in this book hardest to describe in words alone.
Full-body, front		Confirms the fixed 163–165cm proportions and costume read at full body scale, not just head/shoulders.
Rear, connector deployed		Proves the connector’s extended state (~waist length) described in Rear Connector — the compact and deployed states look different enough that one image cannot stand in for both.

Helmet and face detail

Image	What it proves
	Shows the helmet’s lower-rim boundary (ending at cheek/jaw height, chin exposed), the face membrane’s thin cyan edge-light, and fur texture through the opening — three separate rules from this book’s Helmet and Face Membrane sections that are each easiest to verify in one close shot.

Costume range

The base suit (identity-defining: mask, ears, helmet, marks) stays fixed while individual garments vary on top of it — described here in words, per the Costume chapter, since no costume-variant image currently meets this project’s identity-verification bar for inclusion here.

Status: not yet available — a verified costume-variant example awaits future production.

Pose and expression range

A small set intended to show the range of acceptable behavior — see the Pose and Expression libraries below for the full specified sets. No pose beyond the default standing shot (already embedded above, Front/profile/rear views) currently meets this project’s identity-verification bar for inclusion here.

Status: not yet available — verified pose and expression range examples beyond the base standing shot await future production.

A full pose library (20 named poses) and expression library (10 named expressions) are specified for future production and are listed at the end of this chapter for reference; none are currently converted into embedded examples — all remain names only, not yet illustrated.

Do / Don’t

Do treat every image above as showing one specific, named rule — that’s why each has a “what it proves” line instead of just a caption.

Don’t assume any image not shown here is automatically off-model. The reference library below (67 total production images) has not been individually vetted image-by-image; absence from this chapter means “not yet selected as a teaching example,” not “rejected.”

Don’t use any image on this page as a substitute for the written rule it illustrates. If a future image and this book ever disagree (see the flanking-marks note at the top of this chapter), the written rule wins.

What still needs a reference image

The ship emblem has no visual design yet and so has no reference image — see Story & Universe Book, Objects & Artifacts. Individual costume events beyond the wardrobe range shown here (see the Costume chapter) are similarly not yet illustrated. Logo/mark misuse examples (a real “don’t do this” graphic) do not yet exist for this character and are a genuine open production gap, not an oversight in this chapter — see the Brand Book’s own Logo & Mark chapter for the equivalent gap on the corporate mark.

None of the 8 images above show Sol Mamy in an actual application context (e.g. on a social post mockup, alongside another asset, doing something situational) — all 8 are reference-sheet style: an isolated figure on a plain/transparent ground, proving a construction fact (a view, a costume, a pose). Until an in-context example is added, this chapter is reference-only by construction, not by oversight.

Required views and formats, for future formal production

Canonical reference imagery, once formally produced and accepted, should cover full-body, three-quarter, and neutral-standing framing at minimum. Standard formats: PNG (transparent background), SVG, and an editable source file. Standard sizes: 512×512 and 1024×1024, with larger sizes where a specific channel requires them (see Media Book). The 8 images embedded in this chapter are delivered as WebP (web-weight, 1600px max dimension) — a display/reading format, not the archival format this section specifies.

Full production reference library

The 8 images shown in this chapter are the ones that have cleared this project’s identity-verification check so far. Additional production images exist beyond these 8 and will be added here as they clear the same check — this chapter isn’t a full photo dump of every production image, only the confirmed teaching examples.

Pose library (20, specified for future production)

#	Pose	#	Pose	#	Pose	#	Pose
1	Standing (base)	6	Pointing	11	Reacting to Loss	16	Mining Treasure
2	Waving	7	Digging	12	Holding Trophy	17	Counting Coins
3	Holding the Vault Module	8	Sleeping	13	Holding Flag	18	Guarding the Vault
4	Opening the Vault Module	9	Welcoming	14	Sitting on the Moon	19	Exploring Galaxy
5	Celebrating	10	Announcing	15	Flying with Jetpack	20	Community Hug

Expression library (10, specified for future production)

#	Expression	#	Expression
1	Happy	6	Suspicious
2	Excited	7	Confused
3	Proud	8	Shocked
4	Grateful	9	Tired
5	Determined	10	Greedy (playful)

Named micro-animations (proposed, not yet produced)

Five short animations are planned: Welcome Wave, Celebrating Jump, Counting Coins, Zero-Gravity Float, and Opening the Vault. Target formats: GIF, MP4, WebM, Lottie.

What passes the silhouette test

A design passes the silhouette test when it reads clearly as a single-color shape at 16px and remains legible from an estimated 10-foot viewing distance — two related but separate checks. Passing one without the other is not a full pass.

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Part of the SOLMEME Brand Documentation System. Content status (Canonical/Proposed/Open/etc.) is this book’s own axis; ownership/rights are separate — see OWNERSHIP_AUTHORITY.md at the documentation system’s root.