Character Aesthetics

Although I have the majority of my story and the personality of my characters worked out, I still need to decide on an aesthetic for the background and how my characters should be drawn in the final animation.

After receiving feedback from my initial pitch, it was pointed out that the characters I had drawn in my initial character design of Cal and Omm and the ones above, were not very translatable in =to animation. The designs were too intricate and complicated to make effective animation, especially in the time I have dedicated to creating the film.
I also put forth more simplistic designs:

 These were favoured over the more complex designs.