This is from back in the early days of Adaptation's development, back before and I had totally worked out the character designs. That Max ought to be a husky emerged pretty quickly; we needed him to be big, a little scary if he had to be, but still friendly.

Kylie was a little harder to pin down, so much so that even her name was in flux for a while. We knew we wanted something smaller than Max, and quicker, to contrast him. We considered making her human, then for a while she was going to be a cat. However, the whole cat/dog thing was a little too easy, so we decided to try her as an otter and that wound up sticking.

Look for Adaptation, coming soon!