I know how difficult it is to make a cartoon, for sure. All the more reason I feel like I've gotta be honest about this. It needs some real work.
The usual formula just doesn't work. I want to like this creation, however it's just another "office" show. Only with dogs that happen to be geeks. The writing has blatant, unnecessary, referencing to dogs merely because they are dogs. Just like a show with human characters doesn't need lines about how human everyone is; the audience knows it already. The voice for Gary the small manager doesn't fit the design. He should be tense and deliver lines quickly. His voice doesn't match his mass. Commanding, but naive and easily controlled by one of the characters who can easily keep his ego in check. Short guy, big ego, and a doberman! Should make for easy and fun banter. Accidents and setbacks should be one of the last things that gets this character to run away without having his way.
EVERYTHING animates like a cardboard cutout and every character has the same face rig. It's just boring. There's no performance aside from voice acting and moving eyebrows. An example of a small web show that uses the same rig for nearly all characters while exuding a unique character is Happy Tree Friends. The voiced jokes here don't even connect with the audience (A D&D player who ridicules real swords? Slight laugh while hiding something shameful?)
The one and only chuckle I got was from the moment of panic and violence (sword in tail, with die to the head) and even then the animation was too quick and choppy to clearly be made out.
If this has to be an office show; why not have the characters jump into the worlds of the games they're slated to create? Whether imposing themselves through their imagination, or the pitfalls they encounter while writing/visualizing; Right now, the animation and character performances are dull; Voice acting is good although some voices aren't matching the character types. There'll have to be some gimmick that makes this show worth viewing (and sharing with others). Watching characters jitter and bounce to voice acting about work problems are boring. Experiencing characters perform, with writing suitable to the created universe, will generate an enjoyable performance.
