Hooper is a 3D-animated guinea pig (or maybe he’s a groundhog?) that plays around in an actual practical set. I built props for two seasons of these interstitials, including crayon drawings, construction paper collages, and objects sculpted from foam, like this googly-eyed orange bird.
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