I'm intrigued reading the snippets of conversation between the artists. So, do you design the adult dog first and then figure out what the pup is going to look like, or start with the pup and work out what the adult would look like?
Did the big staff project have a theme? (You don't have to reveal what it was, just confirm or deny)
The Shima dog looks kind of electrical, with all those lightening bolts - like a hazard warning - and the mecha one is clockwork - so they'd both fit with a sort of mechanical or engineering thing.