After
the first creative pass into the project, the producers came to their first important
decision.
They decided that the dragon would be a character that appealed
to 8 to 10 year olds. The character
had to be cute, but at the same time,
mischievous, bratty, unpredictable and something of an upstart.
By the end
of this pass, the character design that would become the basis for Spyro was defined.