Help Us Choose the New Yabbit the Rabbit! First Color Character Sketches

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Written By KD Schnee

After months of rewriting the story of The Rabbit in the Moon, we’re finally bringing the newest version of Yabbit the Rabbit to life!

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that we were starting over from scratch and fully redesigning Yabbit from his original anthropomorphic form. You can read that update here:
👉 Redesigning Yabbit the Rabbit

Today, for the first time ever, I’m sharing the very first round of color character sketches from our amazing illustrator, Rod, and we would love your help choosing the direction!

Help Us Select Yabbit’s Final Design

Over the past few months, we’ve grown a warm, supportive community on YouTube, and your encouragement has meant the world to us, especially during the darker, more emotional moments of this journey.

Now, we want to get you involved creatively.
Your voice matters, and your feedback truly helps shape the future of this project.

🎥 Watch all the color sketches in today’s YouTube video

We would love to know which version of Yabbit the Rabbit do you love most?
Which style speaks to you? Which expression feels the most “Yabbit”?

Leave your thoughts in the YouTube comments, we read every single one.

Your Impact on The Rabbit in the Moon

Your feedback today will help guide the final design of Yabbit the Rabbit, the hero of his upcoming children's picture book, The Rabbit in the Moon.

It feels incredibly special to invite you into this part of our creative process. Yabbit’s story has always been about courage, emotion, and connection, and bringing you into this decision honors that spirit completely.

Thank you for continuing this journey with us.
Your support, your encouragement, and your willingness to show up mean more than you know.

Let’s create the perfect Yabbit together. 🐇✨

Related Posts

These posts connect directly to today’s update:

• Exploring Yabbit’s Age Through Illustration
How Rod interprets Yabbit’s age and personality through design.

• New Character Sketches: Watching Yabbit the Rabbit Come to Life
Early character sketches that shaped the direction of Yabbit’s latest redesign.

KD Schnee

KD Schnee is a children’s author from Pittsburgh, PA. He was raised in Bull Valley, IL on a former Christmas-tree farm. He spent his childhood roaming the woods and listening to nightly read-alouds from his dad, and early favorites like A Cricket in Times Square helped plant the seeds for storytelling.

His debut picture book, The Rabbit in the Moon, introduces Yabbit the Rabbit, a character first imagined by KD’s mother and inspired by his own childhood tendencies to hesitate or avoid. Today, KD writes hopeful stories that help kids (and the child in all of us) face fear, feel brave, and grow.

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