Here’s a sad little dragon I designed for the Buffalo Wild Wings Medieval Days commercial. The director wanted the dragon to look completely dejected and overworked, so I went through a number of iterations to make him appear more and more sickly and downtrodden. I sculpted this guy in Zbrush and sent the file off to Legacy Effects where he was he was 3D printed and turned into a puppet! Here is where the final design ended up.
![Buffalo Wild Wings final dragon design for "Medieval Days" commercial screen grab](https://bodinsterba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BWW_Dragon_FINAL.jpg)
Here are a few more early designs:
And here’s the commercial: