Adventures in Prototyping

I've been working with a factory in China for the past few weeks trying to get some of my animals ready for mass production. In first stage, the factory looks at my sample piece, then tries to reproduce it as a prototype. After I okay the prototype, mass production of the animals can begin.

You'd think this would be a relatively simple task. After all, I've already made the animals and the factory simply needs to look at my pictures and do the exact same thing. Let's take Lester the Giraffe for example. He's a fine young mammal, endowed with many handsome characteristics. I sent this photograph to the factory to help them manufacture a prototype:


A few days later, I got back this picture of their first attempt:


Not bad, but I had a few concerns, one of which was the size of the eyes was too large. I asked them to make the eyes about half the size that they were in their prototpye. So they got to work and today I received their second attempt:



Okay. So obviously we're dealing with some communication issues here.