here's the youtube embed for toxie:
I drew some original sketches, thinking toxie could maybe be a turtle. Because I love turtles.
But we decided to go in more of a monster direction to keep with the feel of the first animation. I think it ended up being a better design anyhow. More of a mischievous gremlin-type character.


At the same time, I'm thumbnailing story boards to the audio track:

Then I just animate the after effects model over the boards. the finished still is below.
All in all we had a little over 3 weeks to do everything. 1 week for boards, 1/2 for models, and the rest of the time to animate.