[Shaan-Shoukath]

Every Patch file now comes three ways, so no detail from the concept sheets is lost.

Folder	What it is	Fidelity to the sheet
mascot/	Full vectors: traced at the most faithful settings measured, plus large PNGs and WebPs rendered from them	0.27% of pixels differ visibly (was 0.42%)
mascot/original/	Each piece's exact pixels from the sheet, lossless PNG and WebP	Identical (299,074 of 299,074 artwork pixels on the hero)
mascot/compressed/	Lighter SVGs, the full SVGs gzipped as .svgz (lossless), small animated WebPs	Lite SVG 1.17%; .svgz identical to the full SVG

• Trace settings were picked by rendering each candidate and scoring it against the sheet pixel by pixel. Finer layers stopped helping; a bigger upscale or sharpening made it worse.
• A vector can't hold soft shading, so the subtle iris gradient in each eye still merges into the pupil in the SVGs. It's kept in original/.
• site/scripts/cut-mascot.mjs builds all three sets from the sheets.
• The Mascot page offers SVG, PNG, original and lite downloads on every card.
• The mascot folder is now about 99 MB; the largest file is the full animated sneeze SVG (16.5 MB).

Verified locally: the site builds with all internal links valid, all 22 gallery images load, all 34 download links resolve, and all four animated SVGs (full and compressed, sneeze and walk) show the right frame at every point of their timelines.

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