[Opensim-users] Neutral Avatar - Hippo?

[Ben Faust]

haha! I just learned something new about Hippos! I personally think it's 
a lot better than Ruth, but that's one great thing about OpenSim... With 
some work, it can truly be "each to his own." :-)

On 8/26/2010 5:03 PM, James Stallings II wrote:
> If it were up to me, we'd find something more appealing than a hippo 
> for the mascot. The inheritance of anything from Second Life to me is 
> pretty distasteful.
>
> Not likely to be a popular opinion so I don't expect much to come of 
> it, but my 0.02$US anyway.
>
> (I mean seriously, a fat, sluggish river-dwelling herbivore that is so 
> close to the next level down on the food chain that the carp literally 
> follow it around to eat as it defecates -- why was that ever a mascot 
> for anything in the first place?)
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, <diva at metaverseink.com 
> <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, same here.
>     But since we are talking about the famous Hippos that everybody
>     knows and uses, I took this opportunity to try to find out if
>     anyone here knows anything about their origin. Are these nebadon's?
>
>
>     Marck wrote:
>
>         Well, I found not any license information for the Baby and
>         Mother Hippo that I used as a base. In fact, I got them from
>         your mega-region "Diva's Office"; but I have seen them with
>         full permissions and free to copy at various places in OSgrid,
>         too. I assumed that they are free to use. As long as there are
>         no restrictions on those hippos, the hippo avatar as a
>         derivative work is in the public domain.
>
>         diva at metaverseink.com <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>
>             Super cute!
>             Is this really public domain?
>
>             Ben Faust wrote:
>
>                 Great job! I'm going to use it for our Neutral avatar.
>                 Thanks!
>
>                 On 8/26/2010 11:12 AM, Marck wrote:
>
>                     Hello Ai,
>
>                     Your idea of using a hippo as a starter avatar is
>                     great. I took the
>                     freely available Baby Hippo and made an avatar
>                     from it. See
>                     http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705
>                     <http://www.osgrid.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2705>.
>
>                     Does this meet your notion for such an avatar?
>
>                     Marck
>
>                     Ai Austin wrote:
>
>                         Anyone feel up to creating a starter avatar
>                         that looks like a hippo
>                         that
>                         can be distributed as an IAR? It would be a
>                         great addition to allow a
>                         male, female and "neutral" avatar as starters
>                         and follow the
>                         OpenSimulator logo style with its 3 "users" on it.
>
>                         http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics
>
>
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