Yayyy, Concepts

A lot of people seem to picture Balto's father as strong, well-liked, and/or a racing champion. I wanted to do something different.

While making a post on the forums about Balto and Steele being related (they aren't, I'm sure), a little plotbunny made its way into my head for this idea. These are my initial concept sketches of the character, Samuel. Though I still used the bottom sketch for his official page, his markings have since changed.

So here at the top we have Aniu, mainly for comparison purposes, and below her Samuel, as well as a rough build comparison in the middle (Yes, Samuel is smaller than she is.) To the left we also have a slightly younger Nava observing the dog skeptically while Aniu watches, a scene from when his story was still in development. In the finalized version, Samuel was probably still fainted when such a moment would have occurred.

His character page can be seen here:
http://www.animationsource.org/balto/en/chars/.Samuel./42656.html

Aniu, Nava (c) Universal
Samuel and artwork (c) me.