For the TV Series "Dwight in Shining Armor," we were asked to create a creature called the "Vargr," a hellish beast who could take the form of either a small innocent puppy or a giant demon dog. This created a few technical challenges as we'd not only need to create a compelling CG monster, we'd need to match that to a live-action puppy and be able to seamlessly transform between the two as the puppy became the monster on-screen.

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To accomplish this, we created a CG version of the live-action puppy with a custom hair groom. We used the puppy sculpt as a target to morph the monster. This allowed us to essentially grow the puppy into the its final monster shape, while the puppy hair receded.