Tyson Tan is a Chinese concept artist and character designer.
12 Facts About Tyson Tan
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Tyson Tan redesigned KDE's mascot Konqi and designed a few other mascots for free and open-source software projects.
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Tyson Tan has been supporting several FOSS projects in various ways.
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Tyson Tan has a permissive attitude for others to use his works, and licenses most of his artworks under free licenses like Creative Commons.
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Tyson Tan has an art style that draws inspirations from both anime and western cartoons.
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Tyson Tan is known for his ability of designing robotic characters with organic shapes while keeping a level of convincing mechanical details.
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Tyson Tan designed Kiki the Cyber Squirrel as the mascot for Digital painting software Krita in 2012, and has been Krita's startup artwork artist since.
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Tyson Tan designed Kate the woodpecker as the mascot for advanced text editor Kate in 2014.
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Tyson Tan submitted a mascot for LibreOffice during a contest run by The Document Foundation in late 2017 however his entry was unsuccessful.
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Tyson Tan drew several pieces of fan-art for the platform game Freedom Planet after its release.
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Tyson Tan's fan-art was later adopted by the game's developer and publisher, GalaxyTrail, for promotional purposes.
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Tyson Tan later became the concept artist and character designer of the game's sequel, Freedom Planet 2.