Dapper meerkats and spiffing giraffes

An update on The Bird project called for character designs of a meerkat, giraffe and hippo to be dressed in human clothing to portray a sort of dream sequence Tilly goes through as she day-dreams about returning home to Africa.
So far only the meerkat and giraffe have designs as I wait to hear back about the design for the mother to be approved, as she will be the hippo so I require the design of her dress.

Unfortunately after meeting with the team, the director suddenly realised the meerkat is in fact supposed to be the maid in the story so the lovely dapper gentleman of a meerkat needed to have his gender switched to female. Procedure went according to plan.

There was also a discussion in the weekly about altering the movement of the zebra herd slightly as they all moved the same which felt noticeable to the others. Obviously the issue was how to alter the movement seeing as live action footage depicted zebra's galloping together in the same way anyway so I opted to move legs in the cycle slightly for a few of them and change the way the head moves to depict the illusion they were all done differently. However factoring in how long the sequence is visible for in relation to the animatic isn't very long, roughly 3 or 4 seconds with a camera zoom so spending too much time on this sequence is better spent in the more detailed character scenes.