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type: entity
path: Wiki/Reference
tags:
  - sunnie
  - pbs
  - venture
created: 2026-05-08
updated: 2026-05-08
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# Sunnie

## What it is

Sunnie is the Plant Based Southerner mascot — a stylized sun character that embodies the PBS brand's warmth and energy. Sunnie appears in UI animations, email marketing, recipe cards, and is being developed as a 3D character for future content. "Sunnies" (plural) is the community name for PBS members and followers. Sunnie is both a visual brand asset and a cultural identifier for the audience.

## Current state

Active in branding across multiple touchpoints:
- **Membership UI** — heart-to-Sunnie animation on recipe save button (Phase 2 of membership LOE1)
- **Email marketing** — custom Sunnie pop-up designed for MailerLite Classic→New migration
- **Recipe cards** — seed-packet design aesthetic uses Sunnie branding
- **3D pipeline** — Hunyuan3D-2 + Blender + Mixamo pipeline in development for animated 3D Sunnie character; requires RTX 3080 for inference

## Where it lives

- Visual assets: PBS codebase and design files
- 3D pipeline: Manjaro tower (RTX 3080) via InstantMesh and Hunyuan3D Docker containers
- Membership platform: WordPress/pbs-hub via custom shortcodes and JS

## Related projects

- [[Sources/Dev/pbs-membership-loe1-phase2-save-button|pbs-membership-loe1-phase2-save-button]] — heart→Sunnie animation
- [[Sources/Dev/mailerlite-classic-to-new-migration|mailerlite-classic-to-new-migration]] — custom Sunnie pop-up
- [[Sources/Dev/recipe-cards-seed-packets|recipe-cards-seed-packets]] — seed packet design
- [[Sources/Homelab/hunyuan3d-sunnie-pipeline|hunyuan3d-sunnie-pipeline]] — 3D character pipeline
- [[Sources/Homelab/instantmesh-docker|instantmesh-docker]] — 3D mesh Docker setup
- [[Wiki/Reference/jenny|jenny]] — PBS content creator
- [[Wiki/Reference/plant-based-southerner|plant-based-southerner]] — PBS brand

## History

- **2026** — Heart→Sunnie save animation designed for The Garden membership area
- **2026** — Custom Sunnie pop-up created during MailerLite migration
- **2026** — Hunyuan3D-2 pipeline project started to create 3D animated Sunnie
- **2026** — Seed-packet recipe card design references Sunnie aesthetic