For the TV Series "Dwight in Shining Armor," we were asked to create a creature called the "Pook," a giant, ornery toad who collects shiny things and speaks with a single-word vocabulary. The challenge was to create a CG toad that would blend seamlessly into the environment and who could present human qualities while preserving its toad likeness–all while keeping within the budget and schedule constraints of Television.

To help the Pook feel physically present in the scene, we scanned the live-action set to create a CG lighting environment with accurate spatial relationships that would allow the toad to move through the light in a way not possible with traditional methods. The animation controls were created with both human movement and animal movement in mind, allowing the animators to blend between the two.