Inspired by the lecture, I took what I learned and tried to apply it to my groupwork.

Jack the lumberjack, my character, was re-visited with the hopes of developing my understanding of how changing the shape of a character can affect its overall appearance.

Here are my concepts and ideas, which I tried to keep fairly simple:

I have also began thinking about critters, especially ones which could be used for some simple, 1-second shots within the animation to either bring more life to our world or for comedic purposes. Here are some designs I came up with:

Using a whole lot of references I was able to make some fairly convincing character designs. My favourite by far is the flying chihuahua squirrel!