The Many Faces of Skip
DISPARATE DOODLES DEPT: So, I decided I wanted to do a test scene with the Dad character (a.k.a. "Skip") from "Family Dog," but I quickly ran into a funny issue: "Which 'Skip' do I use?" It seems not having the same animator draw a character throughout an entire show can have its consequences. Scanning through the episode looking for "on-model" examples to follow, I was amazed to see how much fluctuation there was in his likeness. He really can look very different from sequence to sequence. In my doodles above there are at least three different Skips taken from different sections of the show. They're all clearly the same character, but variations are there. Some were drawn with more Disney-type three dimensionality, some with less detail and more cartooniness, and others were somewhere in-between the two. My favorite version is the one at the top of this post; it's a kind of "Fred Flintstone"