Popov Dog

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Popov Dog
Location:	The Popov's Domain
No. parts:	1

Popov Dog was an early outfit designed for LittleBigPlanet 2. It completely alters the player's model and animations to appear as though forced into a dog-like form by a Popov; it was removed in early development for the game.

Costume pieces

Popov Dog

Popov Dog

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  Popit icon.

The outfit is composed solely of a torso piece. The outfit forces the player into a quadrupedal position and replaces movement animations with a canine gait. A player-coloured tendril envelopes the player's body, penetrating the eyes and sides of the head to form ears, while tapering off at the backside to resemble a tail. The Popov's head fills the player's mouth, forcing it open - the Popov's eye sits at the centre of the mouth.

Due to a broken GMAT in recovery, the Popov's eyeball appears as all-black in comparison to its popit icon.

History

Development

The Popov Dog's intended use is ambiguous, though it may have been closely related to the Popov enemies that existed in early outlines for LittleBigPlanet 2's story mode. Based on various pieces of concept art for the Popovs, they were designed around the ability to manipulate sack people, disfiguring them in a variety of ways. Among these, Popov Dog is the only complete example of how this line of costumes may have looked and functioned.

The costume was recovered from the TGS 2009 Move demo build, which puts the creation date of the Popov Dog outfit anywhere during or before September 2009.

Gallery

Concept art

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  Popovs.
  June 23, 2009.