More Rex Variations

Rex, the not-so-bright detective from our show Rex & Boots, Super Sleuths was a challenging character to design. It was hard to come up with a look for him that wasn't derivative. Some of the best crime-fighting and detective dogs have been used in projects like Lady and the Tramp, The Great Mouse Detective or Jim Henson's Dog City. At one point I thought Rex could be a shaggy-looking sheep dog, but that was abandoned. We didn't want a main character whose eyes weren't visible.