I was planning to do a visual development project based offa Richard Adam's Watership Down this year, but life has been sucking ass lately and I realized between this and the last thing I pushed out I'm just not gonna be able to manage making everything I wanted to in a timely manner. There's always tomorrow I suppose.

I really enjoy the WSD franchise as a whole. I like the different adaptations as what they are, which I think is the only way you'll be able to get entertainment value out of them. That said, all of them have fallen short with regards to art direction. I'm not shitting on the people who worked on the various movies and TV series, mind you. I just don't know if any of the teams had the right resources or had few enough limitations set on them to achieve something that's either really polished or stylized in a way that works well for the source material. Even the 70s film had animation too clunky for me to call it "good". In an ideal world, I think a WSD adaptation for any sized screen would make the cast semi-realistic with some apparent stylization to them, which I chose to interpret via an oil-painted effect.

Some notes on the individual characters' designs:
- Fiver has minor piebaldism and ocular albinism. The white spots are just to make him stand out as a weirdo among his warrenmates and his eyes are purplish blue because he's a seer. I imagine that all seers, including Silverweed and Hyzenthlay, would have similar eyes.
- Hazel is pretty generic because I always feel like one character should serve as a reference point for the rest of the cast. He and Fiver have basically the same coat color/texture (sans the white spotting). He has a big wad of scar tissue on his haunch from where he was shot.
- Bigwig is super tall on his hind legs and very wide. He has ear tufts to go with his head tuft because I was inspired by the hairdos lonhead rabbits in real life have. He's got a buncha scars and he only gathers more over time, including the "mark" given to him in Efrafa.
- Kehaar is a black-headed seagull in his summer complexion. Despite having molted already, he has white patches on his head and face that never completely go away. He also has several tiny bb-gun scars to explain why he knows so much about "little black stones".