Google Doodles

[odeon]

No, I'm not very fond of it either.

['andersom']

Me neither. It's dull.

[renaeden]

The one before this one is way better.

[odeon]

They need to go back to their earlier logo.

[Gopher Gary]

Today's Google doodle is Google Gameday Doodle #1.



Football season is here and the little g has always dreamed of being a star player. But does he have what it takes to make the team? Check back next week as the story continues!

['andersom']

Today, 26th of September.

http://www.google.com/doodles/200th-anniversary-of-the-dutch-kingdom

[Gopher Gary]

Thank you, Hyke.  I saw one the other day but wasn't around to post it because recent circumstances aren't very conducive to gophers. It was First Day of Fall 2015 (Northern Hemisphere). 



Notice what’s been popping up lately? Pumpkins, squash, and some curious little critters, hungry for a harvest?

No surprise – today’s the first day of fall! It’s also known as the Autumnal Equinox, a time when day and night are equally long... meaning nature’s about to make way for the shorter days of winter. Today's doodle, created by guest artist Kirsten Lepore, shows off the colorful offerings of fall we’ll enjoy during the cooler months ahead.

[odeon]

^I kind of like that one.

[Gopher Gary]

Yeah, I really like that one too.

[Gopher Gary]

Today's Google Doodle is Gameday Doodle #3. I guess I missed #2. 



There are a few ways to turn heads on a football field. Some get looks because they throw a great deep ball, some have soft hands; some can run the 40-yard dash under 4.5 seconds. Another way is to dump a bucket of ice cold water on your coach’s head. Maybe they’ll cut the kid some slack--it is little g’s birthday, after all.

The rest of the world gets Google's 17th Birthday.

[odeon]

No special doodle for us today.

[Gopher Gary]

Today's Google Doodle is Evidence of water found on Mars.



Today’s news stirred us like a long, cool drink in the blistering heat. Science has gestured at the presence of water on Mars before, but evidence of liquid water--briny, creeping flows that appear in a crater during Martian summers--has tremendous implications in the search for life beyond our planet. We felt compelled to honor such an exciting discovery with a Doodle, and staring at satellite images of Mars for inspiration made us really, really thirsty.

[odeon]

* odeon likes this one

[Gopher Gary]

Today's Google Doodle is Halloween - Global Candy Cup 2015

It's interactive so I can't post it but here's the link:
http://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-global-candy-cup-2015



Welcome to the Global Candy Cup, a fierce competition where four extraordinary witches race to collect the most candy before the end of Halloween. Join one witch’s worldwide team and keep playing throughout the day to add to your team’s score. Only one team will go home with the Cup — will it be yours?

Get to know your contender below, and may the best witch win.




Meet Blue

Despite her humble, occasionally blurry beginnings, Blue is as cheerful as her glasses are big, and even managed to find some joy in her nearsightedness with the help of a sympathetic medieval craftsman. Even if she ends up losing her spectacles, crashing headlong into an unlucky crow and ending her race in a crumpled heap, she’ll probably still have had a blast.

Recruit your friends to Team Blue:     
   
Q&A

Spirit animal
 Golden retriever

Favorite word
 Dandelion

Ideal night out
 Well-planned theme party

If she wins...
 "Start planning my theme party!"
 




Meet Red

We’re told that Red is secretly tenderhearted, but didn’t hazard asking for fear of being turned into toads. Possessed of formidable physical and magical abilities, Red’s third appearance in the Candy Cup is no game--it’s business, and anything shy of giving her opponents a thorough shellacking simply won’t do. Opportunistic and wickedly fast, when Red isn’t racing falcons or tuning her broomstick she can be found doing such things as pummeling her younger brother.

Recruit your friends to Team Red:     
   
Q&A

Spirit animal
 Honey Badger

Favorite place
 The starting line

Biggest pet peeve
 Stupid questions

If she wins...
 "What do you mean if?"
 




Meet Yellow

Yellow’s love of cats, we’re told, is matched only by her love of cats. As a young witch, she passed her days on the winding trails of an enchanted forest, and feels most at home among her feral friends, who often find themselves narrowly avoiding rib injuries in her particularly loving embrace. Quick, cunning, and delightedly aloof, Yellow might be advised to clutch the broomstick as tightly she clutches her feline counterparts.

Recruit your friends to Team Yellow:     
   
Q&A

Favorite animal
 Seriously?

Favorite place
 Wherever there are presently more cats than people

Dream job
 Cat lady

If she wins...
 "No cat left behind!"
 




Meet Green

In the company of five siblings, space under a thatched-roof hut can get a little cramped. The pages of Chaucer, Radcliffe and Shakespeare’s Macbeth are a fine place for a young witch to escape such chaos. Unenthusiastic about physical activity, Green prefers to hone her craft in the bowels of a library rather than in the air, but she’s not to be written off--her appetite for any and all literature related to flying makes her magnificently crafty.

Recruit your friends to Team Green:     
   
Q&A

Sprit animal
 Cephalopod

Favorite smell
 Crisp pages

Favorite place
 A windowsill late at night, lighted by an oil lamp

If she wins...
 "I'll start a collection of ancient manuscripts
 

[ZEGH8578]

This is a good example of subtle 3D graphics. It doesn't look like 3D graphics, but definitely is.
Using graphics this way shows restraint and subtlety, something most movie-effects teams should learn from (and many movie effects teams ARE aware of this, but far too many movies want the effects to look like effects, to reap them effects-creds)