Cindy Bear was originally designed by
Ed Benedict. One early sketch saw her clad in a bonnet, a frilly scarf and an apron with an elongated, pointed muzzle. A second sketch dropped all accessories save the frill scarf and shortened her muzzle. Cindy made her debut in the 1961 television series
The Yogi Bear Show as a semi-recurring character. Her finalized animation design featured blue/grey fur, a hat, a white frill scarf and a necklace. Cindy appeared prominently in the 1964 feature film ''
Hey There, It's Yogi Bear'' in which she is kidnapped, spurring Yogi and
Boo-Boo to come to her rescue. She was redesigned by art director
Iwao Takamoto for the film into the more familiar modern version with light brown fur and a yellow scarf. Cindy has received a few slightly different, one-off redesigns. In ''Yogi's First Christmas
, she was given dark brown fur and white hair, as well as a number of different outfits which she wore throughout the film. For the Spümcø short "Boo Boo Runs Wild", she retained her modern character design, but with the blue/grey fur of her original design. Yo Yogi!'' featured a preteen Cindy Bear with a significant redesign, wearing a modern 1990s outfit consisting of a white skirt/top, purple jacket, purple shorts, white boots and a ponytail. Cindy Bear appears in
Jellystone! as a medical doctor. In this version, Cindy is a brilliant doctor and scientist. But she is also an egomaniac capable of turning on her friends to get her way. ==Animated media==