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Zoey the Cyber Mink
Zoey the Cyber Mink was a mascot I designed for Singularity Viewer, a free and open source Second Life viewer. The first version of Zoey was created in 2019, and received a dozen times of revisions until the final version in 2022.
Singularity Viewer: https://www.singularityviewer.org/
Lore
Zoey was a white mink and a genius young scientist. In a lab accident, he was transformed into a super villain with the power to control portals across time and space, his fur also turned black in the process. At day, he transforms to his old appearance and go to work as if nothing happened. But at night, he assumes his new identity and carry out crimes for fun against big figures and organizations. This setting reflects how people playing Second Life can behave differently than their real world self.
Design
Zoey is my personal favorite among all my original characters. He was a successful attempt to create a full black fur character with primarily black costume, a task which I kept challenging for a very long time. After the first version was done in 2019, I kept fine-tuning his design with my newly acquired art skills, all the way into 2022 when I deemed the design to be final.
Unused
The maintainer of Singularity Viewer seemed to have abandoned their project. Although they seemed to like Zoey, years have passed since I sent them his design, but they never bother to put him up on the project’s website — I do not expect they will, at this point. I might find a place for Zoey in my original projects Electric Hearts and Spirit Animals in Disguise.