If someone is looking for the original Blender file, here it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ihXi ... sp=sharing (I adjusted the file to be able to open and modify it with recent blender versions).
All credits go to the original author "basse".

Hi guys, sorry for the delay because I had been occupied by my job, but the dragons are now ready:

150x250px (as the current About KDE dialog image size):
http://www.tysontan.com/temp/freesoftwa ... 50x250.png

Original (4800x8000px):
http://www.tysontan.com/temp/freesoftwa ... iginal.png

Picture done in Krita.
Licensed under: GNU GPLv2 or above, or Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA.

Konqui is the green one of course ("K" shaped antler);
The yellow one is an artist dragon ("A" shaped antler);
The blue one is a writer dragon ("W" shaped antler);
The red one is a software engineer dragon ("E" shaped antler);
The purple one is a translator dragon ("T" shaped antler).
The blue and purple ones are girls (their eyelashes are thicker and longer).

Although I had tried, no more than 5 dragons can be squeezed into a frame so small (150x250px) and still remain recognizable. I decided not to tax on you guys to change codes just for a picture. In the future, if you change the layout and need a new picture, please let me know and I will work on it.

By the way, if in the future I update the picture to fix some rough edges, how do I submit it to KDE?

Hope you like the picture! Now I have to work on Krita 2.9's new splash too!

love it!

Excellent work tysontan, I love them!

tysontan wrote:Hi guys, sorry for the delay because I had been occupied by my job, but the dragons are now ready:

150x250px (as the current About KDE dialog image size):
http://www.tysontan.com/temp/freesoftwa ... 50x250.png

Awesome, awesome!
here is the review request for it, will hopefully push tomorrow
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118889/

tysontan wrote:By the way, if in the future I update the picture to fix some rough edges, how do I submit it to KDE?

Maybe you should ask for a git-enabled account, it could be useful
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_ ... or_Account
https://identity.kde.org/index.php?r=de ... pplication

Looks awesome, good job.


Resized the image and posted here for everyone to see it:

I love the new Konqi and the artwork, but it does feel a bit too crowded to me, 5 Konqi's is too many and you miss the detail. I guess you're wanting to show the variety of people involved in KDE, so perhaps 3 might be a better number?

So, now is in!

for now (and 5.0) I think is fine, next versions can eventually have incremental improvements like color palette or composition of the characters

joaob wrote:Looks awesome, good job.

Resized the image and posted here for everyone to see it:

I was horrified at first at how poorly those Yoshi-lookalike chibi cartoon dragons fit with the otherwise flat, minimalistic and monochrome Breeze, but staring at those in context now... I like them! Adds a nice splash of colour into the desktop and a little bit of cozy friendliness.

Looks like a manga cartoon for kids to me - doesn't look very polished/professional, for enterprise KDE users.....

dfaure wrote:Looks like a manga cartoon for kids to me - doesn't look very polished/professional, for enterprise KDE users.....

Well, can a dragon ever give a professional impression?

I'm sure not everyone will like the new Konqui(s), but there was a competition and these ones won by popular vote, so now we're using them.

TBF: a "frindly dragon" is hard to make look "professional" (nor is the present one)
Otoh, it now looks even more infantile - here's a 10min study on a monochomratic "logo"

http://sienardesign.deviantart.com/art/Konqui-464070671

Doesn't work on huge sizes in this installation, though.
And is done in inkscape :-P

A mascotte and a logo are very different things.
You see plenty of corporate identities that have quite boring and serious branding but, quite rarely, in selected occasipms, display a quite silly mascotte

Just think at the photos of google i/o, where there were statues of the android with all sorts of silly makeup.
An informal side of the branding, *when not overused* is usually considered ok even in the most corporate-y environments

luebking wrote:Doesn't work on huge sizes in this installation, though.
And is done in inkscape :-P

That one os more of a logo, but konqui newer was (and shouldn't be imo) intended as a logo

notmart wrote:A mascotte and a logo are very different things.
You see plenty of corporate identities that have quite boring and serious branding but, quite rarely, in selected occasipms, display a quite silly mascotte

Just think at the photos of google i/o, where there were statues of the android with all sorts of silly makeup.
An informal side of the branding, *when not overused* is usually considered ok even in the most corporate-y environments

I agree, logos and mascots are different things, as an example these are the Steam mascots: