Every year on April 25th, it is a lovely day because it is World Penguin Day.
The holiday stems from a pattern discovered by American scientists at the McMurdo Research Station on Ross Island in Antarctica: every year around April 25, Adélie penguins living in Antarctica begin migrating north to have enough food to eat during the southern hemisphere winter.
As a result, this day, which marks the beginning of the Adélie penguin migration, has become a festival for all penguins.
: Don't cut the queue during the migration
Taking advantage of this penguin festival, let's take a look at the classic IPs derived from various penguins.
Heal all the unhappy penguins
As the protagonist of the "Penguin" series of clay animations released in 1990, Pingu is arguably one of the most famous penguins in the world.
5-year-old he looks dull and swaying when he walks, but even if he is the only goose, he can always find all kinds of fun for himself-
Like all little ones, Pingu doesn't like to eat vegetables, hates brushing his teeth before bed, and has his own worries and sorrows.
When he was sad, he would pat his little head madly, secretly weep, and seek comfort from his mother.
In each five-minute episode, Pingu communicates with his family and friends in a non-linguin, "penguin" — all you can hear is the ciphered chirping.
Pingu and his seal friend Robby
Pingu和他的妹妹Pinga
Penguin in launch
Pingu allows everyone to see the shadow of their childhood, which is why everyone loves it.
One of the animators involved in the production of Pingu once said, "During the production process, I would ask myself, what would I want to do if I were Pingu?"
"The answer is that I want to eat a lot of things, or go trick-or-treating, and I will strip away all the adult concerns, not think too much, and get into trouble and then think about how to solve it. ”
Although the official does not specify what kind of penguin Pingu is, many fans believe that Pingu's black face and pale yellow feathers around its belly are very similar to the shape of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
As the largest individual species in the penguin family, emperor penguins are generally more than 90 centimeters tall, can reach a maximum of 120 centimeters, and weigh up to 50 kilograms.
Pingu must be a big kid now!
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帝企鹅的幼崽,和Pingu的妹妹Pinga长的很像。
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Let's take a look at Pingu's appearance when he grows up, and watch out for slippery feet.
Love the penguins who stay in the bookstore 365 days
Penguin Publishing is considered the originator of "paperback" and the first to "fill the gap in the mass reading market". Because it took books that only the wealthy of the upper classes could buy, to the price of a pack of cigarettes.
The first edition of the Penguin Press logo in 1935
In fact, the use of a penguin as a logo is not because the owner Allen Lane (Allen Lane) likes penguins so much, but because of the influence of the German Albatross publishing house, he hopes that his publishing house also has a household name animal logo.
As a result, the penguin successfully applied for Lane's offer: "to show a noble and frivolous character", and became the most literate penguin in the world (after all, he reads a lot).
However, from a real penguin to a logo, there are still essential steps in between:
Designer Edward Young went to the Penguin Pool at London Zoo to sketch the penguin pool, complaining about how smelly penguins can be, while drawing the various forms of their lives.
The covers of the original edition of Penguin Books are categorized according to color: orange for general fiction, green for crime fiction, cherry for travel and adventure, red for drama, dark blue for biography, yellow for miscellaneous, purple for essays, and gray for international affairs.
When the logo was finally presented, Lane liked the little black and white penguin with its head turned to the right and its wings slightly open, thinking that it was decent and stupid, which was very in line with the brand's high-end and people-friendly positioning.
Penguin pond at London Zoo in 1935
Later, the penguin kept changing its posture, sometimes spreading its wings, sometimes looking at the other side, sometimes twisting its body, or standing dumbfounded.
So what exactly is this penguin?
According to Edward Young's description and the situation in the penguin pool of London Zoo at the time, everyone deduced that the little penguin on the logo was the most popular penguin at that time - the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus).
Because of its elegant posture and docile temperament, king penguins are also known as "gentleman penguins". It is the second largest penguin in size after the emperor penguin. Like the emperor penguin, it wears orange earmuffs, albeit in a more orange color. Unlike emperor penguins, king penguins' cubs resemble a hairy kiwi.
Click to see a frontal photo of the king penguin and its kiwi version of the cub!
A travel companion forever
Suica Penguin is the image on the watermelon card initiated by JR East (East Japan Railway Company).
"Suica" is pronounced the same as "watermelon" in Japanese, so people sometimes call it "watermelon ka". The picture shows the airline cooperation series
There are two reasons to use penguins as an image:
First, I hope that Suica can swim smoothly like a penguin in the water, so that everyone can use it smoothly;
The second reason is that Suica has never been exposed to a new type of transportation card in Japan at that time, just like penguins living in Antarctica who first came into contact with watermelons, they were all curious about the unknown.
However, the creator of this little penguin is not JR East, but the picture book artist Chiharu Sakazaki.
With this penguin as the protagonist, Chiharu Sakazaki has published a series of fairy tale books: "Little Penguin Brave Amusement Park", "Little Penguin Goes to a Department Store", etc.
Find out, where is Changchang?
In the picture book, the little penguin's name is Changchang. It likes to wear a green scarf and carry a green bag, and lives in a big penguin family with 4 brothers with different "support colors".
Changchang is based on an Adélie penguin, and in the character design, Chiharu Sakazaki describes it as "a penguin who came to Tokyo from Antarctica and his favorite food is fish sausage".
: Good friends, walk hand in hand
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The most striking feature of Adélie penguins is a ring of white around their eyes
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: Brothers, I'll slip first
Charlie Wiley, who plays me
Charlie Willy is from the 1953 Universal-owned 50-episode animated film "Chilly Willy" and wears a little red and white hat every day.
The daily state is either hungry or very cold (a penguin afraid of cold), and the daily life basically revolves around the problem of food and clothing.
In addition to not waking up every day, I still can't wake up
Start the day to ask for food
Little Charlie is sometimes a fool, and when he applies for a job, he will smash the hand of the blacksmith boss and burn the customer who comes to get a haircut.
You may not have seen Charlie's cartoons, but its memes are seen by many as "playing my mental state".
In fact, many penguin IPs are based on Adélie penguins and emperor penguins.
These two penguins are the only two of the 18 species of penguins in existence that live in the Antarctic continent and are the spokesmen of the penguins we are more familiar with.
But outside of the IP, the hat-band penguin who can play the policeman with a police hat, the rockhopper penguin with the coolest fried hairstyle, the little blue penguin who can't tell who is who when he messes into the night heron flock, and the African penguin who is also called "donkey penguin" because it sounds like a donkey...... All have brought us a lot of joy and comfort for countless days.
Video source: ins myeonghoseo;Emoji source: Official account emoji Xiaowo