Transformation Stages

The above image was put together back when we were concentrating on Ollen's various animations, working out how the little guy would evolve into his adult form. At one point we had the individual drawings up there all linked together as one transformation GIF, but shuffled things around before we put it to use. In the end this pic landed as the placeholder for our "coming soon" comics page on the old 2002 site.

Adult Ollen

 The above 2002 GIF shows Ollen after he evolves a little, looking grown up and exhibiting a tougher hide. In the early days we came very close to making a urethane version of this creature, but some Space Trappers decided to crash the party.

While on the topic of Space Trappers, the cover of the original mini Rechlen and Aves Visual Guide actually shows Rechlen using a Rig to capture Ollen, with Aves hovering just behind the action. I'll have to dig that one up.

Ollen

A couple more old GIFs from 2002. These spotlight Ollen in his younger form, flapping his tiny wings in the top image while blinking and thinking in the bottom one. The original idea was to have Ollen grow up as the site expanded. We'll get a look at the results of that concept as these posts continue.

The blinking image appears on the bottom inner flap of the early Glyos boxes.

Egghead

 
Digging around the archives around here has yielded some pretty funny old files. The above GIF was on the front page of our site way back in 2002. After I did the drawings of all the little bits, Michelle animated them into this oddball progression.

Over the next few days we'll pop up some of the other finds, which are equally strange. Back then our "mascot" was Ollen, a reptilian critter who lurked around the old site and even made it onto the bottom inside flap of the original Glyos figure packaging. That's him inside that big O.