[Opensim-users] Neutral Avatar - Hippo?

[Karen Palen]

I agree that we should have a better mascot, but I am at a loss (for once)
to suggest anything!

A falcon? Flying high and free? Problems ...

Karen

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM, James Stallings II <
james.stallings at gmail.com> 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> 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 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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