Hi! I was browsing some programming mascot plushies for fun and noticed the absence of any LLVM stuffed wyvern; i looked a bit and only found a discourse in the forum and a redesign of the logo proposed 2 years ago which I also couldn’t find any update on. I think it would be nice to have a real mascot instead of just the vague image of a wyvern as logo, complete with name, some references and maybe merchandise (eventually). If someone could enlighten me on what the logo situation is like and if anyone would be up for having such a kind of presence which is less threatening (because many on the logo redesign thread pointed out that LLVM should target hobbyists as well and the formal logo would be impractical)
Hello! We updated the dragon/wyvern logo a few years ago to the one you see here: https://llvm.org/Logo.html
I also attempted to have a plushie made and unfortunately, it was an epic failure. I’ll include a photo here because it was months of process and a really sad/frustrating outcome.
If there is specific merchandise you are interested, please let us know. We do fundraising through merchandise sales at our events, but eventually hope to also do online. Right now, we have a few things on Bonfire, but it’s not our complete line that we have at our events.
I thought of Lilevam (/ˌlilˠˑˈvɑm/) because it contains the Letters in order and is perhaps gender-neutral; although it doesn’t contain the ll /ɬ/ typical for gaelic
I will sketch up a ref sheet later so we could work off something
Some years ago one of our PMs contributed some dragon plushies to our team, and they now stand watch over the Sony toolchain cubicles. Compared to the LLVM wyvern they have much shorter necks and smaller wings. Also I have a friend with a homemade very long skinny plushie wyvern, but again pretty small wings, just for practicality. (This was originally created as a “draft dodger” i.e. something you place along the bottom edge of a closed door to keep the drafts out.)
The 3D-printed idea sounds cool, though. I have a Kerberos (or if you’re a Harry Potter fan, Fluffy) that is quite sturdy and lightweight (hollow).
I lightly tweaked the old logo in Paint3D as a proof of concept for how the original design of the wyvern could be combined with a more sensible orientation of the new version:
It should hopefully be possible to edit the original vector graphics to match the shape?
Can +1 Sanshee, just as a one-off customer. I got some Overcooked plushies from there that were pretty good (though I find a lot of their stuff doesn’t look great to me, at least)
As for dragon plushies generally - I know someone with Zen Deluxe Plush | Dragons and Beasties - probably a bit too premium/detailed, but not sure (& could reach out to them to see if they’d know who to talk to if we wanted our own, or whether they could collaborate on a particular colour scheme using one of their existing designs)
