Rest assured I was paid appropriately by Xe for the Anubis mascot, but genuinely the biggest reward is seeing so many people enjoy my work. I put a lot of thought into how people might respond emotionally to the Anubis challenge page image, and I'm happy it's had such a positive impact.

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Any kind of interruption from your browsing experience is a high-stress situation. Modal popups on modern websites are bad enough, but Anubis is a full-screen interruption. The mascot is, in fact, load-bearing to defuse this tension. I personally recommend people don't replace it because of this.

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For example, the 'error' variant of the mascot. By definition, you're only going to see this by mistake. Bots don't care. So the expression I went for was more surprise than anything else, rather than, like, exaggerated crying or anger. Also fun fact this was based on a bocchi expression.

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I has aged

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I’m now 1 billion years old :3

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