5th Element Ink

Ink for the
whole machine

We're the design studio inside Colossal Capital. Twenty-some products, one visual bench: brand identities, NFT artwork, motion, 3D, and the UI systems that hold it all together.

EST. WITHIN COLOSSAL CAPITAL — OPEN-SOURCE TOOLCHAIN FIRST — SELF-HOSTED WHERE IT COUNTS

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What we make

01

Brand identity

Logos, color systems, type, and guidelines. The reason twenty-plus CC products look like cousins instead of strangers.

02

NFT artwork

Turtle base designs for TWF, chromosome frame assets, color scale palettes, and the dynamic layers that respond to market data.

03

UI systems

Component libraries, design tokens, and icon sets shared across Delt, Atlas, Versal, and the web properties.

04

Motion

Animated logos, loading states, transitions, and promo video. Generated where it helps, drawn where it matters.

05

3D & AR

Blender turtle models, world-line visualizations, physics NFT renders, and AR assets for Specs.

06

Marketing

Landing pages, social assets, pitch decks, and investor materials for every product launch.

The bench

We run on free and self-hosted tools, and upgrade to paid platforms only when a job demands it. Control over the pipeline beats subscriptions.

In daily use

  • ComfyUI — node workflows for Stable Diffusion: img2img, inpainting, upscaling, video
  • Stable Diffusion XL — with custom LoRAs fine-tuned on our own artwork
  • Blender — 3D models, AR assets, renders; AI-assisted texturing
  • GIMP + G'MIC — scripted batch pipeline, CDN-ready exports
  • Penpot — self-hosted design platform; shared libraries and tokens
  • Inkscape — vectors, logos, print exports; Python-scripted batches
  • Krita — concept art, textures, hand-drawn elements
  • ImageMagick — the CLI workhorse inside CI

On the shelf, when needed

  • Runway — Gen-3 video and motion brush for premium motion work
  • Midjourney — concept art and hero imagery at scale
  • DALL·E 3 — diagrams and text-in-image via the Apollo API
  • Figma — if a client team already lives there
  • Adobe Firefly — commercially-safe fills for print runs
  • Kling — long-form video synthesis

Clients

All in the family, for now. The studio serves the Colossal Capital ecosystem end to end.

TWF — turtle templates, chromosome frames, palettes
Delt — Flutter UI, app icons, onboarding illustration
House of Journeys — chain identities, DeFi interfaces
Specs — AR overlays, 3D coins, HUD elements
Smelt — data-viz templates, render pipeline
everyone else — tokens, icons, type, guidelines

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