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Tyson Tan
Chinese concept artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tyson Tan is a Chinese concept artist and character designer. He redesigned KDE's mascot Konqi and designed a few other mascots for free and open-source software projects. Tyson speaks three languages: Chinese, English, and Japanese.[2]
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Tyson is observed to have been using only free and open-source software (FOSS) to work since 2012.[3] He has been supporting several FOSS projects in various ways. He has a permissive attitude for others to use his works, and licenses most of his artworks under free licenses like Creative Commons.[4]
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Art style
Tyson has an art style that draws inspirations from both anime and western cartoons. He draws mostly anthropomorphic animal characters.[5] He is also known for his ability of designing robotic characters with organic shapes while keeping a level of convincing mechanical details.[6]
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FLOSS Mascots
Tyson designed Kiki the Cyber Squirrel as the mascot for Digital painting software Krita in 2012, and has been Krita's startup artwork artist since.[7] In 2013, his re-design concept of KDE's mascot Konqi was chosen from a contest and has been used since KDE version 5.x.[8] He also designed Kate the woodpecker as the mascot for advanced text editor Kate in 2014.[9] Tyson submitted a mascot (Libbie the Cyber Oryx) for LibreOffice during a contest run by The Document Foundation in late 2017 however his entry was unsuccessful.[10][11]
Video games
Tyson drew several pieces of fan-art for the platform game Freedom Planet after its release. His fan-art was later adopted by the game's developer and publisher, GalaxyTrail, for promotional purposes.[12] He later became the concept artist and character designer of the game's sequel, Freedom Planet 2.[13]
Books
Tyson's works have been included in the following books:
- IMAGINE: the art of Imaginary Friends Studios (Artwork used)[14]
- Furries Furever: Draw and Color Anthro Characters in a Variety of Styles (Artist and writer of Chapter 6)[15][16]
- Digital Painting with Krita 2.9: Learn All of the Tools to Create Your Next Masterpiece (Cover artist)[17]
- Dessin et peinture numérique avec Krita (Artwork used)[18][19]
- Made with Krita 2016 (Artwork used)[20]
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See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tyson Tan.
- Freedom Planet 2
- Konqi, mascot of KDE
- Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, mascot of Krita
- Kate the woodpecker, mascot of Kate editor
- LibreOffice § Mascot competition for details about Libbie the Cyber Oryx
References
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