My next design is an adaptation of PD Eastman's Go, Dog! Go! One of the things we have to deal with is the concept of anthropomorphism. It's really hard to think of how doggy we need to make these human actors, or how human we need to make these doggy characters. When you look at Eastman's book, he's drawn these really fantastic bipedal dogs who are involved in strictly human activities. They're not scratching, licking or even bum-sniffing.
So as a research activity, I decided to do drawings translating specific breeds of dog into a human proportion. Here is a basset hound, below is a poodle. I thought that by exploring the dogs in this manner, I can better understand the essential elements that make a dog a dog. These are in no way real approaches to the final costume, because we already know that full masking is both impractical and undesirable.
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