Okay so! This is a scene still in progress, but I wanted to get some help if y'all are interested.

Initially the point for me was to make something about our two cats Carol and Freddie, because ruminating on their daily demonstrations of easy love is helping me get through the shit of the world right now.

Some folks we know who have cats were kind enough to also let me feature them as "extras" in the background. And the rest were just kinda npc cats I made up. During production, one of the cameo cats sadly passed away. Which has now meant that all of the guest appearance cats are posthumous memorial features(!). This was not by design, it just worked out that way.

Anyway, MY POINT IS: I am making a bunch(4) more of these and will be needing extras and background cats. Some roles are set and I have specific ideas and plans for them. Others are honestly background characters I don't yet have strong feelings about, like these two in this upload:

This is an early scene in the next episode and features a bellhop on break from working at the hotel across the street. He is visiting the cat who works at a scooter rental place and their flirting is interrupted by something on the little TV she is watching. That's it. It's nothing big. A second or two of screentime. And in the end, I'll just fill these kind of roles with random on-the-spot designs.

However if you're willing to let me know about a cat you'd also like to remember this way send me a note and a photo or something to help with reference. I can't tell you right now how things will end up, but I do have some crowd scenes planned and there's gonna be a need for like four or five extras per remaining episode. I need to be able to cast the cats in a way that make sense to me, so you might not make it into this one, but a future episode, etc.

Here is a typical design to show that it's a basic level of detail to keep the work manageable. And the cat will get a portrait for the credits sequence. You can watch the first episode to see who is listed in the credits and how.

Also: As you might can tell, this is going to skew heavily political. Like, Captain-America-killing-Nazis level imagery. I personally don't think that should be remotely controversial, but if you aren't up for your cat sharing a narrative with other cats reasonably dealing with weird fascists then this isn't for you. I will say that these extras aren't going to be doing any of that stuff, these are truly backgtround bits - I mean, unless you're into that sort of thing, then sure let me know.