Benny the Bull. Designed by Helena Giersz.

Benny is one of the main characters for Dora the Explorer … another one from the original watercolor lineup of those watercolor characters that I designed in 1998. He was supposed to be a teenage boy that was always hungry , lovable, but not very smart, which was very apparent when he appeared for the first time as an animated character in the original pilot for Dora The Explorer. The original version of Benny was brown, but the merchandise department for Nick Jr asked me to make a more colorful version, and I decided to make him blue… which immediately was approved and later he also lost his hat.

20 years later when I was working on 3-D Benny Chris Gifford asked me to dress Benny up differently, but in the end the polkadot bandanna just stayed in place :).