Azura Ruisselante the Broadcaster Unicorn is the mascot I designed for AzuraCast, a free and open source web radio station suite. Her name is French, meaning “blue stream”.
AzuraCast website: https://www.azuracast.com/
Other versions of Azura
- Azura the Broadcaster Unicorn: mascot of AzuraCast web radio station suite (this page)
- Lanxi: support character in Electric Hearts, Sunset Era
- Lanxi: support character in Spirit Animals in Disguise
- Connections between Electric Hearts & Spirit Animals in Disguise
- Characters based on my FOSS mascots
Design
AzuraCast’s history goes back to Ponyville Live, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic community broadcasting project. To highlight her MLP roots, I designed her as a unicorn with studio headphones, a microphone on her horn, and speakers on her back. I chose black fur because it looks cool and drawing a full black character properly was a minor personal goal at the time. Her flowing blue long hair symbolizes her namesake (Ruisselante = Streaming = AzuraCast’s purpose).
There was also an anthropomorphic version of her, but I later found the design unappealing and inconsistent with Azura’s calm character. So it was removed.
Personal favorite
Azura’s a color scheme and her personality makes her one of my favorite character. I was not quite satisfied with the 2018 version. I might draw her again in the future – being a “brony” back in the days and all that.
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