Design a new Blender Artists 'spinner'!

Three weeks ago I replaced the standard Discourse ‘spinner’ animation with the rotating Suzanne (see here). It’s getting a little old though and I was thinking it might be fun to add some variation: we can change this into an activity where we let our community artists create new interpretations for it. This can be an ongoing thing where we replace the spinner once a month or so.

Interested? Here are some guidelines:

  • The theme is not limited to Suzannes, but should be relevant to Blender/Blender Artists. Don’t use the Blender logo though.
  • Max image size: 80x80px
  • Max file size: 100kb
  • Provide a ‘light’ and a ‘dark’ version, preferably with alpha transparency and correct premul.
  • Post your questions or entries below.

For reference, here’s what the original Suzanne spinner looks like:


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In case you’d like some inspiration: I was thinking of a rotating Blender Artists logo that alternates with the Blender logo once you’ve reached the backside.

Here’s the BA logo:
logo-3

And here’s the Blender logo:

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Note that you can’t use the Blender logo for this, that guidelines page you link to excludes it. I checked with Ton to make sure.

OK. I figured the Blender logo could be freely used for any Blender-related purpose.

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Rotating donut? :wink:

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What you say?)))
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blenderartist-spinner-v03

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i like seeing it.

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Yes, something different, with pizzazz.
Maybe a rotating set of these. Fun stuff.

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I’m in.

Picasso Suzanne entry removed, I will work on a real one…

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here’s mine (two flavours)…

baSpinner0_moving_dark baSpinner0_still_dark
baSpinner0_moving_light baSpinner0_still_light

blend: baSpinner0_001.blend (178.0 KB)

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Note that your entry doesn’t have to be a Suzanne! Anything that’s relevant to BA, 3D or Blender works.

Watch out you might hurt Suzanne worshiper’s feeling :rofl:

We want Suzanne! We want Suzanne! We want Suzanne! We want Suzanne!

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I’m on board for changing it out every month (or every something).
I think it would be something easy(ish) for newbies to feel appreciated.

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well, I tried

Webp.net-gifmaker

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another one more NPR-y

output_Cos7ab

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BALogo
[WIP]
I was thinking something like this (but with better pacing)
Here’s the blend file:
BAAnim.blend (827.6 KB)

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Oh I like the ‘rendering’ reference :ok_hand:

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I tried made some crystal Suzanne.
SUZANNE_DARK SUZANNE_LIGHT SUZANNE_LIGHT

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No deadline for the first entry?
I’ll give it a try at the weekend.

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