What's in a name?
As most of you know, our company is named "Steam Crow."
It's something that my wife and I created 6 years ago, in the hope of creating our ultimate jobs - earning a paycheck creating the art that we love to make.
But what's a "Steam Crow" anyway?
Our concept came from an early book idea, which was about this mechanical scarecrow who gets struck by lightening, and comes to life to fight a bunch of evil mechanical crows. (Sound familiar?)
Eventually the story was abandoned, but not before I stole everything I could from it, and applied it to Monster Commute. Sometimes creation is about stealing from your other failed ideas.
For fun, I've been redefining what a "steam crow" might be.
Yes, it's the name of the Steam Crew's van.
Indeed, a CrowBot is a steam-powered crow. (Albeit a 30 foot tall, megaton, evil crow.)
And yeah, Kip the Halloween Golem is a steam powered scarecrow.
I guess that my point is that Steam Crow is all about invention and creation.
We delight in changing our logo about every year or two. We like to redesign our business cards whenever we have the chance. Our website(s) have undergone transformations frequently. We really dig creating new art, stories, characters, and worlds.
Part of the reason is to hone what the 'Crow is, and another is because we enjoy the act of creating itself so much.
A steam crow can be anything... if we work hard enough at making it so.
- Daniel
Read more of our actual story over here at SteamCrow.com.
