Character Design

To begin designing the character, I researched into children's drawings of families and used some of the elements of the drawings from Tom's 6 year old brother.

If you visit the group blog (link in previous post), we have many posts on research for the animation, but here's an image of a mini collage of useful images I produced in my sketchbook....

The next images are a small collection of rough character designs...

The writing on the right hand side of the page is some very useful information that Laura found on the internet, describing the development of children's drawings as they grow.

The most useful part (in the red box) says, " A blue line and sun at the top of the page and a green line at the bottom, become symbolic representations of the sky and ground."
This is very useful when producing layout designs.