December 11 - Savannah Animals

"The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask."

~ Nancy Newhall

There's a strange sort of peace at a watering hole in the Savannah.

Creatures that normally keep a healthy distance drift into the same circle. Even the biggest bodies and sharpest horns manage to leave room at the edges.

No creature claims the resource, they simply take what they need and step away.

Can you even imagine a creature behaving otherwise? Truly unimaginable ... ...

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These are another couple examples from Patrick Van De Ven's "Holy Snail" design technique.   So far so good for handling ANY creature!


(view other rhino or zebra)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Patrick Van De Ven:

January 8 - Loopy Beaverz

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

~ Samuel Johnson

I feel like I'm part of a musical montage, but living it slow real time as I sort of retrain my fingers and brain.  Later it will be cut to the Rocky theme song, but right now we are rocking out hard to a book on tape.

Consider this Day 3 in the "Quest to Build the Anything".

The beauty of a simple design is that you get a lot of attempts and freedom to play and experiment and try different approaches.  "I wonder if I could ..." becomes almost second nature, and if this is an experience point bubble, I want to collect as many of those as possible.

I originally made the beaver's teeth much bigger, but the effect of the large buck teeth carries even with tiny teeth since they're the only ones visible and having them big seemed to interfere with the log chew.   

Other balloons by and inspired by the David Brenn: