Originally posted to Tumblr on July 10, 2022.
Guess who has a new design! Kris does!
This was something I'd been thinking about on and off for the past...6 or so months, maybe longer! But I felt I had to change up Kris's design since his old design wasn't clicking with me anymore. So I gave him a redesign!
His design has always reminded me of an axolotl, so what if I leaned into that a little bit more? He has a tail now, his fins are longer, and he's even more friend shaped! I hope you enjoy this design as much as I do!
One blog post after the other! I will be honest, I wasn't too happy with Kris's previous designs and it was something that had been in the back of my mind for a couple years. I tried giving him a small tail, tried giving him larger fins (which did work for a bit!), but something still felt off about his design.
This was in 2021 when I made Kris's fins larger. Those are fins btw!
This was another attempt at a redesign, also in 2021. Kris has a tail here, but it's easy to mistake it as his hand. That's a tail I decided to add!
Redesign attempts from April of this year. I thought about giving him larger legs and even noticeable eyebrows like Twizzle, but yet again, that didn't feel right...It was mostly the body shape I had an issue with.
Then earlier this month I came by the indie animated film, Axolodyssey and Jojo reminded me so much of Kris that it gave me the inspiration to lean into the axolotl features and give Kris a different body shape, a tail, and longer fins! Also, check out Axolodyssey! What I've seen so far looks amazing!
In the end, I'm very happy with his new design!