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I'm going to try my hand at designing what Sye and Alaska Slim might have looked like, since I've been looking up pictures of the team (and I'm having a hard time telling who is who). xD

Any thoughts on what they might have looked like/qualities they might have possessed?
I know that Sye was the youngest. I picture him as being the dog with the floppy ears, since I noticed that one or maybe two of the team members have floppy ears. Can't find much about Alaska Slim though, but I'm thinking that he was probably one of the thinner dogs because of the name he holds. i dunno

He's very nice, Eska! I can certainly use him!


Well if you would like to try and design some of the dogs for the remaining open slots (let's stick with males now), that'd be great! Or you can attempt one or more of the remaining historical dogs which haven't already been done (or aren't planned, as in Lucky's case). Or both! Use the real photos of both teams as reference (Togo's is primarily what needs filling at this point). The photos are in that topic that introduces my Togo, Balto and Fritz fan characters, on p.2. Meanwhile, if you could PM to me that stuff you have on Fox, that'd be great! Thanks!


That'd be great, Lucky! I always imagined Sye as an exuberant, eager, and enthusiastically happy-go-lucky young dog who's also a touch goofy (shades of Star maybe? LOL). It's telling considering that, in the end, in the Cleveland Brookside Zoo, he was the last of the team to pass, and spent his final year alone in the pen, mourning his lost team members (howling and pining). He was only a bit younger than Balto...who was the last to pass before Sye.

So it will make that much more of an impact, I think, when the time comes to do that fan fiction, for Sye to have such a personality. As to Alaska Slim? lol Your guess is as good as mine on the photos (then again, that'd be the case with almost all of them)!

I think I will take a stab at Scotty and a few other dogs on the team that are un-named.

I already did Scotty, I made his sheet. I'm working on fleshing it out. But we do need a Alaskan Slim I think,still...Sye was done,right?

Looks like LuckyLunny wants to take a crack at both, actually. Still waiting on the results.

By the by, if any of you artists would like a few historical references of a more general nature...have a look at the first two posts in this topic, starting at the top of the page:

http://www.animationsource.org/board/real-dogs-that-look-like-balto-characters-t31015-15.html

I suppose I'll just doodle up random designs

Surprise! I've drawn most of Togo's team hahaha


http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae10 ... kies-8.png

And here's a black and white one.


http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/ae10 ... kies-9.png

That is fantastic work, Cat, as usual! Er...but if you read back, Eska said the following regarding Cade (much to my disappointment, though I respect her decision):



Meh. Hope you don't mind nixing him from the line up. I already did from the team line ups above...

But again, AMAZING work! (Er...my only criticism would be whether or not there'd be any way to make Scotty look more masculine, as in his actual photograph, and less, well...foo-foo sweetsy cutesy bunny bunny...-ish. heh.)

Yes Cat, amazing, as usual!!! And your pic of Dodger is so great, thanks

Thanks!

You may want to bring that up with the version of Scotty I was working with LOL He was awfully cutesy in that reference. (Not the photo reference.) But yeah, I'll just re-use Cade's lines for another character. I totally missed that Cade wasn't gonna work.

Oh no no. I think the work she did on Scotty is fantastic too. I just thought the result in the great art you just did made him appear a bit feminine is all.

LuckyLunny wrote:

"Any thoughts on what they might have looked like/qualities they might have possessed? (referring to Sye and Alaska Slim).
I know that Sye was the youngest."
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There doesn't seem to be very much descriptive info. for these two dogs. According to his obituary article, Sye was 17 years old when he died in 1934. Born in either 1916 or 1917. So he was most likely one of the oldest dogs on the team. Two years older than Balto anyway.

Hope this helps.

Lucky,

With regard to Sye, since there is no documentation I have been able to find which singles out one dog or another in Balto's team (visually), I would like to encourage you to use your imagination, also using the photos I have posted elsewhere, of Balto's team, as a reference guide. This will, after all, be a fictionalized version of the real team, and a little freedom of movement (given what little historical verification is out there) is expected and, as far as I am concerned -- within the confines of this situation -- acceptable.

Don't worry about anything else.