'The funny angle' is something I picked up while training in traditional animation, watching people I knew outside of the course who couldn't draw very well having the time of their lives. Ever since then, I've had the utmost respect for the off kilter. It's important to follow tangents, that's how our brain works. If we allow ourselves and therefore our characters the curiosity and space to go off on these odd little journeys, we find new stories to tell, new methods of storytelling, new jokes, ways to feel magic and sadness and generally affect people.

i also drew on my obsession with pattern for the design, a sensibility instilled in me by all the azulejos (tiles) i'd take in each year while visiting family in portugal