Pandas are beautiful animals that make most of issue a very heartfelt “awwwwww!” The recent earthquake in China had it’s epicenter in Chengdu where the revered Pandas are actively being protected, researched and bred in captivity to get the numbers up from their remaining 1600. At first, all the pandas were all thought to be safe, but two were found missing, although one has been spotted heading back home. (Part of NPR’s coverage on the quake.)

This past week, we, at Tiny TAMA hosted a fundraiser for Pandas International where we raised approximately 20,000L, with about half of that from the Tiny TAMA portion of the event.

I had sculpted a mother and baby in Modo and painted them using a combination of photographs and hand painting to give them a very realistic look. The sculpture stands some 3 meters in height and contains 17 prims (two are regular prims with all the textures involved to preload the sculpties and color maps and rez faster). This sculpture is sold, with mod and transfer perms, for 1000L and 50% of the purchase price is given to Pandas International.  

I also sculpted a tiny panda pet that can be worn on the head (for tinies) or shoulder (for humans). This little guy features a sculpty which animates and changes textures to emulate the head moving and the eyes blinking. The whole thing has 2 prims (one of which is for the preload). You can obtain your own pet for 500L. Both of these are available at our Tiny TAMA store.

Oh, and one last note of pride on my part: the Panda mama and baby took first place at the Lummerland Show and Tell today!

~Elfa and namaste