Red Rover Reference Sheet

For my senior project, I'm creating a short film called Red Rover, about a robot named Rover who befriends and gets adopted by a little girl. Here is the character sheet for the main character and my process for designing him. I took inspiration from dogs, other canine like animals and rover type of robots in real life.

The final reference sheet, including a turnaround, a few emotions, and a few functions.

First initial sketches for Rover. I played around with designs based on different dog breeds.

Some more sketches playing with different shapes.

Some designs based on more traditional rover robots.

Final thumbnails that I chose the design form. I went with the circular head so I could really focus on conveying emotion through body language.