How We Made The Club Penguin Avatar

For Club Penguin’s 18th anniversary, I wanted to tell a story that I’ve never properly told before: how did Club Penguin’s avatar come to be? How was it adapted from Penguin Chat 3? What considerations went into its creation? And why did I make it so that the penguin’s tummy could be removed at some point?

0:00 – Intro
0:45 – From Experimental Penguins until 2005
3:06 – Improving Upon the Avatar of Penguin Chat 3
3:56 – Color Changing
4:39 – Clothing
6:41 – Animations
8:47 – Swift 3D
12:38 – Special Dances and Tummy Removal
15:37 – The Paper Doll
19:13 – Updating the Penguin Again
23:05 – Final Thoughts

Special thanks to the Club Penguin Wikia for helping me fill in a few gaps of my knowledge and storing so many useful pieces of art from the game.

If you want to see more Swift 3D behind-the-scenes penguin stuff, check out this video: https://youtu.be/Um_Qsnmqg1U

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