From kde-announce Fri Apr 23 20:47:33 1999 From: Martin Konold Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:47:33 +0000 To: kde-announce Subject: Call for opinions: KDE 2.0 mascot! X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce&m=92490116402523 Hi there, From: Matthias Elter Hello all Some of you already know it, a friend of mine was "secretly" working on a KDE 2.0 mascot for some time. The first "stable" ;-) version has been completed today and you can find 4 images here: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon1.jpg ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon2.jpg ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon3.jpg ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon4.jpg If you encounter trouble downloading them please use these other URLs instead. ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon1.jpg ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon2.jpg ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon3.jpg ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/icons/dragon4.jpg It's a cute (yet unnamed) dragon. The idea was to create a animated assistant for the KDE Help Center but the result is so amazing that many people told me it would be nice for a KDE 2.0 mascot in general. Please note that this is no replacement for the KDE logo! The KDE logo IMHO is perfect, it looks very professional. The goal of the mascot is to add a more human touch. The native format of the 3D model is .3DS but it can be converted to most other 3D formats. Stefan (the artist) is currently working on a mascot-sdk ;-) containing the 3DS source and 2D images of all kinds. If you have art/format related questions please directly contact Stefan (spa@planetquake.com). Please let me know if you would like to see the dragon become the official KDE 2.0 mascot and please send in naming suggestion. Greetings, Matthias -- Matthias Elter PGP public key available on request. KDE - Color outside the lines http://www.kde.org