8-tan

[Kiso]

@Bella: Well, you can always try and mix and match between visual arts and writing and get something right down the middle. Most people in the gijinka culture are more likely to read a manga than purely written story... or even a thread. The only way that those can actually be in the spotlight is having a more interconnected community, which obviously this (OSC, pixiv, Futaba, etc.) is is not.

I do hope one day the language barrier just kinda dies out and people could be more easily communicate with one-another so that stuff like this grows out from just a couple of small, isolated groups... but in the mean time, I might as well have fun with the current world.

[Bella]

I've tried doing comics, but I find it far too time-consuming. Between character design, drawing, panel-layouts, storyboarding and re-storyboarding, inking, cleaning up lineart digitally, adding text, etc, etc - it just takes too long. Writing, on the other hand, has always felt so nimble, simplistic, elegant - I can just tell enough detail to paint the picture, but leave out enough so my readers' imaginations can supply the rest. I also feel that I've been able to capture a sort of emotional and literary depth in the written word that I never have been able to in my comics... -v-;

[Kiso]

I know that... and I can actually relate to that. I guess it's much easier for a (real) lot of people to get the picture by looking at images while the dialog supplies the rest of it. When I look at it that way, and then more by looking at the japanese "otaku" culture, it just makes sense... they've been at it for a very long time after all.

[Chocofreak13]

i just suck at writing. for some reason though, i can write term papers and comics quite well. :\

also, i just realized that i'm OSC's promoter. :\

[Tenkohime]

Glaciachan ONLY POSTS ART on Pixiv. She's not Japanese and the art's not even tagged with OS-tan, so I think she forgot to put it, didn't know how to - I feel her there if that's so. I tried to find out how to write Pokemon and it was hard. - or it's a coincidence. She posts the URL to her tumblr on her art, so maybe you'd have better luck registering there, Chocofreak?
http://glaciachan.tumblr.com/

Oh, and here's her dA.
http://glaciachan.deviantart.com/
It says she from the USA.

I agree that the designs are adorable. Especially wee Amiga!

Dang, I got really distracted there. This is supposed to be about 8. I'm too impatient to wait to finish commissions, so I sketched really fast.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/tenko72/myeyestheyburn.png
Touchy feely personality. Business woman appearance. Touch-screen pince nez. The akita costume

If I redraw this, I think I'll replace business with Amazonian, because AFAIK, there's no OS portrayed that way other than USA!XP, while there're at least three business women. I never used it, so I'm guessing a whole lot, but the flashiness sounds like it might work.

[Chocofreak13]

you have a cute drawing style, tenko. ^^ my only question is that is she wearing glasses or not? :3

also, thanks for the link, i think i'm gonna contact glacia-chan. :3

[Aurora Borealis]

Should I mention those designs on each character's article on the wiki, under an "Other designs" section? Because even if those designs aren't fanon (they aren't to me), I still want to acknowledge them.

[Chocofreak13]

i think that's fair. i posted a comment on the art saying that those OSes already had characters, so you might post another asking if you can use them. :\

[MEDIEVAL_MIKU]

There is a silhouette of who is possibly 8-tan in this video from the Windows Developer Days Conference in Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJinL8Ln3Q&t=1m20s

[Chocofreak13]

damn you. i must have this song now.

[Nichi]

There is a silhouette of who is possibly 8-tan in this video from the Windows Developer Days Conference in Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJinL8Ln3Q&t=1m20s

Nice find. Welcome to the community ^_^

[Chocofreak13]

doesn't look like they're posting more than this.

that said, got both the song and the video on my ipod now. however, i agree with my friend mel's statement.

"mel clark (2:32:51 AM):the OS itself looks scary. but I like the music and the girl is cute"

[Sato-kun]

Hello, can I post my own concept of Windows 8 Os-tan? Or is it already comform about the original concept or haven't? I just wanna share thou 

[Aurora Borealis]

Yes. Feel free to share it. Besides, none of the 8-tan designs are actually canon.

[Bella]

Go for it, we love seeing new designs around here. : )