We still went through a series of dog designs and had Eileen’s sister, Stephanie draw up several possible dog designs.

All of us were pleased with the possible designs. Initially, Katherine had wanted the dog to have pointed ears. And while I do love dogs with pointed ears, Eileen and me both agreed that the dog should have floppy ears so it would be easier to distinguish between Cat and Dog. Since when I showed my mentor, she got Dog and Cat confused at certain points in the animatic.
However, we were unable to have Stephanie come up with more designs and since we had to keep moving with the project, we had to make the design of Dog ourselves. After several meetings and character designs we initially settled on Dog’s design.

However, after a critique in class, we had to change it since Dog was drawn too much in the Disney style. Truthfully, I was taking too much of the style from Disney as I was looking at Pongo from 101 Dalmatians and Balto for reference. We were warned that drawing Dog like this would be difficult and didn’t quite fit the style of our film. So I went back and tried to simplify the design.
Since we want a more simple feel to our film, I had to simplify what I already had so it would be easier to animate when the time came. We had a session where we all worked on Dog’s design but just couldn’t find the right style or look.