These are previous renditions of my claw designs which all took inspiration from real claws and animated pliers. I tried to keep it simple and tied to convey a trickster character as I could.

My claw design went through 4 developments and some of them I modelled in blender to see which one was more dynamic and that were in my limits when it came to rigging. I wanted limited less expression in the eyes.

I settled on this design.

I went to claw machines in yorkgate and dundonald icebowl and took pictures as reference.