Thinking About Dogs depicts a guy trying to go about his day, except for the fact that he is always confronted by a Dog. For some reason, the dogs want him to know they are definitely noticing him. My project is not about people and dogs relating to one another. In this piece, Dogs is a place that exists in one’s mind; somewhere to go when feeling like there’s nowhere else (want to find something else to put here?)—a happy place. It is about alienation, retreating into one’s own head, and trying to get over stuff and move on.

I chose to animate this project because it allowed me to take the most liberty with my characters.There were a lot of things in the piece that I wanted to not imbue with any obvious meaning, regardless of how what I thought meant. Maybe the audience can think, “Why are the dogs disapproving of the strange looking guy?” Or maybe they think that the dogs were trying to tell him something.he ability to be sort of canvas for one to project themselves onto is something that is sort of unique to animation and I wanted to take that opportunity.This way, I didn’t have to depict the dogs as anything but dogs, I tried not anthropomorphize them at all, and the audience could do the rest and see them as whatever they wanted.