Mon, 02 Sep 2024

I can't even explain why this happened.

The (adult) kids, and sometimes the spouse, play Splatoon. I don't, but the graphics are cute and lend themselves to charms, so I had it on my "do for the kids" list. There are existing designs out there, and I try to steer clear of anything that's going to get a cease-and-desist, so it wasn't a design for the shop.

And then the topic of SquidTember came up on the socials and, well.

To be clear, I have nothing to do with these groups except being a fan, it just made me keep thinking about squids.

A couple hours later, I had the simple charm but also, somehow, a full eight-arms-two-tentacles (look it up!) version. Which, again, I cannot sell in my shop.

Of course, as the feature image suggests, there's still a shop entry for it, tentatively marked "Free to members" but y'know what, I think I'm going to say "free to donors." Donate to one of the Squidtember groups (for choice, local-to-me Skype a Scientist), and let me know you did it and I'll email you the design. A caveat: the "instructions" for the 3D version assume you're familiar with my 3D designs, so it's just a series of fourteen photographs, no text. At some point I'll write it up, or I can share the instructions for the Minimalist Frog or something.

(I am going to add a non-Splatoon squid to the to-do list though.)