On 9 Dec 2008, at 04:05, Jameson Quinn wrote: > Just out of curiosity: that is a squirrel, not a possum, right? I > mean, it is a "rascally rodent", so it would have to be. What is its > name?
Frank (Frankie), yea he's a flying squirrel. > (It is amazing how hard it is to distinguish the sugar glider from a > flying squirrel, given that we are much closer genetically to a > squirrel than the sugar glider is.) If we went for a similar level of quality render as to Frankie, the colour patterning (black ears, black/white face stripes, grey body rather than brown) and face details (pink nose, black eyes) should make a pretty distinct character design, but most people at best, will still just think it's a flying squirrel. > Jameson Regards, --Gary P.S. If there was a general desire to go 3d, I'd be willing to build, render and release the data, but I'd not want to burn the hours until there was some form of consensus on needing a mascot, and some examples of how/where it would be used to good effect. The Sugar UI style is symbolic/abstract, so a good design should leverage that Sugar art direction (i.e 3D realistic or cartoon styles are really too different to fit comfortably in my opinion). _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep