See for yourself what amazing opportunities Steemit is creating by financing projects and bringing people together. Today is a very special day for me because I am finally getting my favorite memory sports elephant mascot done to become an animated puppet like Steemy.
Marvin, the Memory-Sports Elephant
Designed by and named after Marvin Clifford in 2009, author of Shakes & Fidget, Schisslaweng, Mittenmang and many other comics.
Later designs from othor Illustrators
Years later I hired more illustrators to create a few more versions of Marvin:
| BeCartoon | Safarbi Illustrationen |
|---|---|
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The SteemGig
Today I am hiring the illustrator 
Here is one of his speed drawing videos:
What I need is a full frontal view digital puppet drawing in Adobe Illustrator format. It needs the different faces below which I took from Steemy and are not the faces for Marvin but just a list of mouths I need. The same goes for the eyes and eyebrows. It concludes with a set of different emotions. You might recognize these images from my Steemy contest.
The arms must be devidable from the body. The hands must come with open hands and closed fists both facing forward and backwards (of course not together, but I need both variants). All fingers need to be their own layers in order to animate them.
All body parts must be labeled accordingly and all head parts must be in a group called head and all body parts must be in a group called body.
| Faces | Emotions or Phonetics |
|---|---|
 | Neutral |
 | Smiling |
 | Surprised |
 | Sad |
 | Angry |
 | Blink |
 | BitCoin |
 | W-Oo Phonetic |
 | Uh Phonetic |
 | S Phonetic |
 | R Phonetic |
 | Oh Phonetic |
 | M Phonetic |
 | L Phonetic |
 | F Phonetic |
 | Ee Phonetic |
 | D Phonetic |
 | A Phonetic |
Special Emotions
| Number | Face |
|---|---|
| 1 |  |
| 2 |  |
| 3 |  |
| 4 |  |
| 5 |  |
| 6 |  |
| 7 |  |
| 8 |  |
| 9 |  |
| 10 |  |
First Sketch
The first pencil sketch is more than I could hope for!
Just two things: The pupils in the eyes will move and bounce in all directions. That means they must be designed that they work on every position within the eyeball. And the arms must work separately from the body, so they must be fully drawn. The position right now is great for their default. They must be placed behind the belly so that it creates depth like now.
The Trunk is the Tricky Bit
The most difficult part is the trunk because it dangles in front of the mouth. That means that all mouths must be designed and work without the trunk first. Then
I think to make it look well it should be just the mouth changing but the wideness of the cheeks and cheekbones and maybe the angle of the tusks shifted slightly from mouth to mouth. That way the entire lower face will move when Marvin speaks. I think that will look better.
Why #Steemgigs?
Steemgigs is the new Fiverr but with fair prices and Steem/SBD payments. The money stays in the ecosystem and no further costs come into being. The value of Steem grows by using it as a currency for goods and services. And it helps to support fellow Steemians with work and exposure.
Please help to support this project with your upvotes and resteems. Marvin will be used for the new community account 
What you will support with this project:
for refinancing the gig
- #steemgigs and future gigs by bringing exposure it
- Steem by making a transfer of services within the ecosystem