A fun project I worked on a few years ago was HUBERT’s BRAIN; a quirky short CG film produced by Wild Brain (the original, San Francisco branch) and directed by Phil Robinson & Gordon Clark. Starring Peter Falk (Columbo) Jonathan Harris (Lost in Space) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) the film won an Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject Annie Award for Wild Brain in 2001.
In addition to my usual role as storyboard artist, I did some of the character designs, including this one; an annoying yappy dog. It is always fun for me to design a character that is not supposed to be cute. Apart from a typical cranky lap-dog I was thinking of a creepy hybrid of pug, piranha, crab and bat as I drew him. The modelers and animators did a fantastic job bringing this character to life.
This is my fave design contribution to the project, but I have more model sheets for some of the other characters I designed for HUBERT’s BRAIN that I’ll post later.
He is glorious.
I love him, and the bow is the perfect touch!
Thanks. The bow was PINK and the doggy was worm-white. Can't remember if they stayed with that colour scheme though when they modeled him.
Pink would have been my choice too.
The bow ended up baby blue mate. Go here to see the finished article
The doggy is at the end of that previous clip. Here's the full length version . http://vimeo.com/16294836 . The dog is featured at around 1.4 minutes in but his main performance is at 8 minutes into it.
Great dog!!
Thank you, Alina. Glad that you like him!