"It was important to find the balance between a living and breathing animal and a robot pet. He couldn't move too naturally (so as to seem alive) but also needed to exhibit a serious advancement in toy/robot technology. In look development, we tested dozens of materials to find the right combination of metal, plastic and rubber, and tt was important to the director to not look like a super future metal/glass robot, but instead keep it in a more contemporary world with plastics and rubber. We brought our own dogs into the office to film animation reference and that led to some great subtle moments in the animation.

Mill created a really cool CG character that feels like he's part of this Chevy-driving family. It proved to be a great project to work on with such an extremely tight turnaround, but per usual, Mill did an incredible job on the final product.