Simplifying the Character Design

As I mentioned in an earlier post I needed to make my original character designs more simpler so they could be translated into animation.
With this I decided to look at looking at simple shapes to create the characters and to give them simple facial details.

Here is a very quick and simple design of the three characters mentioned clockwise from the top left; Omm, Cal and Father. I like this, especially the design of the father, however, it's a little boring and lacks anything special in my opinion and is maybe too simple.

Here I tried using a different medium; ink calligraphy pen. I really like the brush quality this gives especially in the faces of Omm and Father. I am a little skeptical again at the simplicity and how it will work when it comes to animating it. 

This was using an altered brush on Photoshop to try and get the quality of a hand drawn image. I quite like this, especially the design of Omm, I like the contrast of the shapes of their faces; oval, circle and rectangle.