Tyson Tan | |
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谭代山 [1] | |
| Born | 29 August 1984 China |
| Other names | 钛山 |
| Occupation(s) | Concept artist, character designer |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Notable work | Konqi (mascot of KDE) Kiki (mascot of Krita) Freedom Planet 2 (Concept artist, character designer) |
| Website | tysontan.com |
| Tyson Tan | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 譚代山 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 谭代山 | ||||||
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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]
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]
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]
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,the contest was cancelled. [10] [11] [12]
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. [13] He later became the concept artist and character designer of the game's sequel, Freedom Planet 2 . [14]
Tyson's works have been included in the following books:
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