My 20th -tanniversary Project

[Bella]

> Date registered: March 15, 2007, 11:59:26 PM

Decided to spin this off of my main art thread. As I near the 20th anniversary (!!!) of my registration (March 15, 2027), I wanted to do something special to celebrate this website, the community and little world of characters that we've built.

Had the idea to draw a massive OS-tan group pic, one character per day, between now then, in the simplified art style of some of my other not-quite-as-large group pics.

I expect to run out of characters or space between now and then, but that's a bridge to cross when we get there.

Starting canvas (9300 x 7200 px)+ Week 1 lineup:


18 days in and still not out of Windows-tans...

[Goujer (she/her)]

This is SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such an ambitious project, you are so powerful Bella.

[Bella]

Thank you Goujer! Fingers crossed I can keep up with this!



A small update this time. Hoping to post my progress weekly, and this gets me to week three. Neptune-tan is one of my favorites among the Windows, I was happy to finally get around to her. Windows CE, Odyssey, Server 2003, and the other 95 OSR-tan will round out this group ... might throw in a Windows 97 or Server 2008-tan cameo later. (I do want to have some -tans "where's waldo"'d away from the rest of their group.)

Gotta decide who I'll tackle next - the Linux-Unix family or Apple/Macs. Moreover, I need to decide if I want to insert any set pieces / setting around the different groups of -tans; I thought about it but can't figure out what I want to do.

[Bella]

Behind by a few days, but I managed to get the Windows-tans wrapped up with Odyssey, Server 2003, CE & 95 OSR 2.1-tan!

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

Behind by a few days, but I managed to get the Windows-tans wrapped up with Odyssey, Server 2003, CE & 95 OSR 2.1-tan!

This is amazing I wish I could draw like you. Where is Windows 11-Tan?

[Bella]

This is amazing I wish I could draw like you. Where is Windows 11-Tan?

Thanks!

Is there a consensus on a Windows 11-tan design? I've seen a few around, but I'm wary of using the designs of non-OSC-originating "fanon" OS-tans. Unfortunately I expect to run into the same problem with post-Lion Mac OS X-tans, as I don't believe any of them have widely adopted -tans - if they have -tans at all. T_T

[Goujer (she/her)]

Thanks!

Is there a consensus on a Windows 11-tan design? I've seen a few around, but I'm wary of using the designs of non-OSC-originating "fanon" OS-tans. Unfortunately I expect to run into the same problem with post-Lion Mac OS X-tans, as I don't believe any of them have widely adopted -tans - if they have -tans at all. T_T

The most common design for Windows 11 is a small loli character that is honestly depicted in ways I'm not the biggest fan of. She's often drawn in ways I would not be comfortable having a child depicted in.

[Bella]

The most common design for Windows 11 is a small loli character that is honestly depicted in ways I'm not the biggest fan of. She's often drawn in ways I would not be comfortable having a child depicted in.

Yeah, I've seen that design around on pixiv as well and know what you mean. :/

Sketchy depictions aside, I don't get the design language of her as recent Windows-tans tend to trend ... big so to speak, and nothing I know about Windows 11 suggests small/simple (as is the case with the DOSes, early Windows, early microcomputers etc. -tans who tend to be small and child-like physically).

[Goujer (she/her)]

Yeah, I've seen that design around on pixiv as well and know what you mean. :/

Sketchy depictions aside, I don't get the design language of her as recent Windows-tans tend to trend ... big so to speak, and nothing I know about Windows 11 suggests small/simple (as is the case with the DOSes, early Windows, early microcomputers etc. -tans who tend to be small and child-like physically).

SO TRUE, Touko made more sense as a Windows-tan than this weird sassy child we seem to have for 11.
At least with Touko the trend was making her a psycho yandere.

[stewartsage]

Thanks!

Is there a consensus on a Windows 11-tan design? I've seen a few around, but I'm wary of using the designs of non-OSC-originating "fanon" OS-tans. Unfortunately I expect to run into the same problem with post-Lion Mac OS X-tans, as I don't believe any of them have widely adopted -tans - if they have -tans at all. T_T

So we need to work on a Windows 11 then.  Or someone does, that's about fifty years too advanced for my field lol

[Bella]

SO TRUE, Touko made more sense as a Windows-tan than this weird sassy child we seem to have for 11.
At least with Touko the trend was making her a psycho yandere.

I still have mixed feelings about official OS-tans but I did warm up to Touko working on this. I don't know much about her personality tho so I'm delighted to hear this.

So we need to work on a Windows 11 then.  Or someone does, that's about fifty years too advanced for my field lol

Honestly ... I would be game if I had ideas. Most of what I know about Windows 11 centers on tightened security, reduced user customization, recording everything the user does, and AI integration, which I feel like you could spin into OS-tan design concepts. (Right off the bat I see her as a dominant and surveilling type. Yandere anyone?) I don't know I want to give myself a headache figuring out how generative AI maps into OS-tan terms though.

I wouldn't mind taking a stab at post-Mavericks Mac OS X releases. I feel a bit bad saying it but a lot of the newer OS X releases have run together in my mind. I've thought making one encompassing Mac OS X-tan to cover the ARM releases, though I realize that's very against tradition.