Basti a cute donkey

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It's about to redesign our mascot (Basti). He was done two years ago by ourselves. But now he looks very plastic to us.
What we are missing:
- He is not cute enough that somebody would say: "ooooh" - should have more a BABY-Look
- He looks like a big blob of gray tones we are missing shades, curves, reflections etc

Eventhough what we like:
- He kinda looks like its model
- That he is gray
- The pose meaning that he sits - eventhough we need a second pose
- That he does not have the body of an animal four-legged he has a "Baby Body"
- The fact that we have an opened filein matter to do any required changes

The old AI file as well as photos from the original plush in many pose you can finde under www.i-mondi.com/download/Basti.zip
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It's about redesigning our mascot, this means to stylize the stuffed animal in the zip-file. Initially, since our old AI file was only revised, we have taken it from the zip file. If you still have the old AI file, please do not take our old file as a template. Please direct the focus to the stuffed animal and interpret it by yourself. The result should be a complete character, not just a head or a upper body. Each possible pose is welcome.

WE DONT WANT TO COPY ANYTHING - BUT TO GET AN IMPRESSION OF WHAT WE LIKE WE ARE PUBLISHING HERE SOME LINKS
1ST PLACE: Very sweetly we find the Zebra (top center)
http://www.babyland-online.com/images/articles/58b5036e7b8b10eefd47b0d156fcd6b4_5.jpg

2ND PLACE:
http://www.wuff-dogsworld.de/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x500/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/i/file_181_32.jpg

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