Depending on the product, this design varies from being two and three-dimensional. Due to being redesigned to be more chibi styled, Tom is also significantly shorter, with a visibly huge head. He appears with his original bright grey tone, his eyes are significantly larger, and his mouth is significantly smaller, creating a cutesy Tom. In 2016, Tom once again had a huge overhaul in design.

He's also varying in size depending on his age. In My Talking Tom, he appears similar to his look from Tom's Messenger and Talking Friends, but with a simplified style, and no visible fur. Starting from Tom's Messenger, Tom's visibly fatter, with wider cheeks and a more rounded stomach. His jaw is also visibly smaller, and he has more realistic fur. His face was also optimized with visible reflection in his eyes (the original model lacked visible lighting). Tom appears rather with white whiskers, a more mid-tone grey color-scheme with a more visible transfer between grey and white. In Talking Tom Cat 2, Tom's design was drastically overhauled. His mouth and on his stomach had tinted white fur around them. For facial details he had large, black whiskers, semi-realistic feline eyes and a huge frown that spread over his face. In the original version of Talking Tom Cat, Tom appeared as a bright grey cat.

He also has four fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot. Tom generally appears as a gray tabby cat, Felis fabulatus, who has long whiskers, green eyes, a stripy tail, a pink nose and pink canals and white eyebrows.

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