[Opensim-users] Neutral Avatar - Hippo?

[LS Tinker]

I like the ostrich idea - but I think the ostrich-like, two-headed,
three-legged Pierson's Puppeteer from Larry Niven's Known Space stories
could be more appropriate.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:14 PM, InuYasha Meiji
<inuyasha.meiji at gmail.com>wrote:

> You could make it an Ostrich.  They Run fast just like OpenSim, and when
> people shorten it to OS grid people will think it stands for Ostrich. lol.
>  But do we really want to run around as Newbie Ostriches.  But it had to be
> said.
>
>
> Karen Palen wrote:
>
>> 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 <mailto: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
>>    <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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