The snake had one eye

We had a mascot we loved: a cobalt python with a brass fuel nozzle for a tail. It went into the opening, the home page and a video clip before someone looked at it properly and asked the obvious question.

Where is the other eye?

The head faces us at three-quarters. The right eye glows. On the left there is only scales. Every one of us had looked at that image and not seen it.

Do not reroll

The temptation with a generator is to ask again. But a new snake is a different snake: other bands, other pose, other nozzle. We would have had to redo everything built on it.

So we edited instead. We passed the approved image back in, said what must stay identical, and named the one change. It came back with two eyes and the same everything else.

The clip

The video was harder. It opened head-on, one eye and all. Instead of paying for another take we kept only the part where the head has turned into profile, where one eye is simply correct, and played it forward and back into a loop.

What we took from it

Look at your own images as if a stranger made them. Then change the smallest thing that fixes the problem.