The Tale of Mac
wrldwzrd89 said:
Hey LimeiBook86 - where did you get the character/idea for the character "Mac"? Also, why does Mac fall over in your avatar?
I know it's *off topic* but I'll share it with you all.
My friend Todd drew a picture of me and made me look extremely overweight, with a oval shaped head and a large stomach etc... Well his version was very detailed and such. (you can see a variation of it on the flash intro to my page) My friends don't call me by my real name, since the school I go to is pretty small, I make up 99% of the Mac users, so my friend Todd started to call me Macintosh. Now all my friends just call me Mac including my Art teacher. So I drew a simple little character loosely based on my friend Todd's drawing. It looked like a normal human until I added a hump on his back for no reason, I was about to erase it when my friend started to laugh at it. That's when Mac was born...Why name him Mac? Well since it was supposed to look like me and my nickname is Mac thats what I did.
I drew the picture because I was going to include my character in a crude animated short (
http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/hashbrown.html) named Hashbrown, its not that good, you can't hear the voices, and it isn't that funny but it was just for fun. Now I'm making another movie that will be better and make more sense. (See signature) My friend considers my version of Mac to be totally different from his, which you would understand if you saw it. I have to find the original picture he drew, it has to be around here somewhere...
And to explain my Avatar, he is looking at you as if he was in a window, he takes a peek at you and he thinks you looked back, so he gets startled and falls over, only to get curious and take a peek at you again...
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might post a full thread about this with pics and stuff later. Thanks for your interest!
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EDIT: Official "History of Mac" page which is very detailed,
http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/history_of_mac.html
Thanks again!