Rethinking The dog design

Styles I Liked:

I found that I preferred simplistic animation design, As it does not only look better, but could simplify animation process. From this I experimented with different styles on Photoshop.

I tried a 'flat shaded' style and experimented with eye shape.

Eventually I found that the first one best shows the dogs personalty of being old and tired of his owners mishaps.

I took this and tried to make a design for fitting the personality on illustrator and came up with this design, taking inspiration from the styles I liked:

From this I developed this design to make it slightly more easy to animate and a little better overall design:

From this new design I added in more positions and poses (as well as angles):

After this I started researching dog walk cycles:

From This I started to create a walk cycle (by changing the legs into strokes).

After this I animated it from Illustrator to Photoshop. I repo

After this I added in double the frames.

I Tried some other styles, Which worked better but didn't fit the needed animation detail. (and style).

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Finally I decided on a name (Chester) and made a character board..

61.3b : Character Profile.

Character Description:

Who are they: A intellegent, old, moody dog who only talks when he breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience about what he is doing and how he really feels. He seems lazy most the time but he becomes exited if there is food involved.


What do they do: They pull off the ultimate heist to steal a cake of the kitchen counter. Talking to the camera as he plans it, thinking it through.

What world do they occupy: A world exactly like earth but with an intelligent dog called Chester.


Personality: Old, Lazy, Greedy, Clever.

Mood board:

Initial rough sketches

 needs fur outline, Possible Simplification, Colour - Still will need more development.

Useful resources for Mouth animation

http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/a/animationphonem.htm