Character Loop - Ideas and Design

We were told to come up with some ideas for a character that we would eventually animate, we were given a sheet of A3 paper and let our imaginations go wild. However I missed the lesson so I had to come up with a few ideas quick and came up with a few:

A ghost with huge eyes and a sad mouth as he is dead and not happy about it. I would animate the legs that sort of look like tentacles to move about slightly and possibly had dribble slurp up and down from his mouth as he looks quite cute and cartoon like.

A space invader sort of shape with strange eyes and a small mouth. I would animate this character by having his mouth get bigger then shrink back down whilst he changed through a variety of colours.

A face with buck teeth and huge blood shot eyes. I would animate this character by having the blood vessels enlarge and shrink whilst his pupils moved around and he twitched his nose every now and then.

A rabbit with huge spoon like ears and two huge buck teeth. I would animate this character by having his ears sway from side to side slightly and one would twitch every now and then and he would also scratch the side of his body to indicate he has fleas.

A bird with unproportioned body parts such as Huge eyes, Huge beak and small wings and legs to make it slightly cartoon looking. I would animate this character by having his wings flap really fast as they are smaller than his body so need to keep him a float, his feet would tuck up and down into his body as he flew, his eyes would also look around to see what was going on.

After looking at the pictures for a while I had decided to animate the ghost as I thought I would enjoy it the most and decided to make some changes to one of his eyes and make it bigger and the other smaller to give him a cute kind of look and make him slightly rounded and squashed rather than have him long and thin.

His eye sockets would remain blank throughout every scene as he is a ghost. His legs which are small tentacles will sway from side to side to make it look like he is moving or hovering within the air. I also selected 16 colours and decided on three to use which I thought would look best and applied them onto my character, I eventually decided to go for the green I had selected as I thought that it looked the best and is personally my favourite colour.

After this we were given a a booklet to lay out the frames for our character just like the bouncing ball task. I created 13 frames that would loop together with his legs swaying from the outside to the inside and the dribble hanging down his mouth the being sucked back up to give the impression he is a cute little ghost.