Cyan Tree 2000
Lyster Contributions
Several of the people on the Riven Lyst contributed to our tree again this year. (Thanks everyone!)
"The wreaths were all hung on the daggers with care"
"We two penguins from Antarctica"
One of Rudolph's pals.
Have yourself a snuggly penguin Christmas
I'm begging you to have a great holiday!
The picture inside is hard to see, but it's a Rime screenshot, complete with snow.
Cyan Ornaments
Somewhere along the line, someone at Cyan decided that the Cyantists needed to get in on the act. Here's an excerpt of the email that went around with the instructions for making our ornaments:
"Each ball will be transformed into your head, or whatever or however you see yourself. Imagine a tree with 50 little heads on it. Wow!"
For a moment I was worried - a tree with fifty little heads on it is something I'd rather not imagine, actually - but I think everything turned out all right, and as far as I can tell, only one Cyantist (#25s) was killed in the process.
A few notes:
6 - Riven hut with snow
7 - a wahrk
8 - It's hard to tell from the picture, but this was one of the glass ornaments filled with Christmas lights. Unfortunately, having all those lights in a little, confined space made this ornament get pretty hot, so it's been unplugged.
34 - Rand (picture is inside ball, but you have to look through the small unpainted part.)
35 - Cosmic Osmo!
There was a Cyan contest involved in the ornaments. We had to vote for five different categories. And the winners were... <drumroll>:
Most creative resemblance to employee: #4 Jeff Oswalt
Most recognizable without photo enhancement:: #33 RAWA (It was close though. #5 Bill Slease was only one vote less)
Most creative: #38 Micah Sheets
Most work and we still can't recognize: ?? (I'm still not sure which one he was) Mark Klammer
Most abstract and yet recognizable: #29 Tim Larkin