# Mood boards add your own!

We have to decide what our tanuki would look like!

##### TANUKI

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/ryjimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/ryjimage.png)

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/VZqimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/VZqimage.png)

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/gbbimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/gbbimage.png)

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/RWjimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/RWjimage.png)

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/n3timage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/n3timage.png)

here is a swatch of representations for tanuki in media, gaming and anime.   
we must discuss what is in scope, what we have the skill to achieve and choose.

##### **FUTURISM**

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/bSgimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/bSgimage.png)

##### **MODERN MUSEUM INTERIORS** 

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/o5aimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/o5aimage.png)

##### **museum modular kits**  


[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/32eimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/32eimage.png)

##### **ABANDONED INTERIORS**

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/UAhimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/UAhimage.png)

##### **INTERIOR KIT AND TRIM SHEET EXAMPLE**

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/nwJimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/nwJimage.png)

##### **Liminal Future Spaces**

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/VPkimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/VPkimage.png)

##### **Solar Punk Future** 

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/qqsimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/qqsimage.png)

##### Animal to Human Spectrum

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/dKHimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/dKHimage.png)

#####   
  
[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/pRkimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/pRkimage.png)  
  
Animals of Japan

Tanuki implies animals from a similar biome range would be about. Is there a post-human culture here? What are the other animals up to? Is there some sorta Redwall-like society of raccoon dogs, stoats, mice, rats, badgers, feral cats and dogs, rabbits, etc?

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/KNVimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/KNVimage.png)

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/uetimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/uetimage.png)  
TECH ART NOTES: Within this idea, still a good practice for scope to have a limited number of "template" rigs, AKA a ferret rig that also works on an otter, weasel, etc. Less strain from multiple rigs, less work, rerigging, and most of these guys are in a rough archetype anyway. A rat and a mouse can use the same rig, just make the rat bigger.

#### Robotz

[![image.png](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/scaled-1680-/7ykimage.png)](https://docs.bugjam.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2026-02/7ykimage.png)

### Mind Map  


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</div>[Feel free to add to it! ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B2wOg1ayBR3sQDH0jU8M45vqwOCyQmpF/view?usp=sharing)  
Mind maps are a useful way to get a word salad of helpful ideas to moodboard. No wrong answers--more words = better! "If you know the name of something and you have the internet, there is zero excuse to not have reference," a concept artist said once. --Oscar