Initial Character Loop ideas

For my initial ideas, I started thinking about an interesting but simple character which would be easy to manipulate. As I created my first couple of ideas, I realised that I would have to think about how each character will be animated, and how I will make the character move across an image and the screen. If I created a character with too many complicated features, then I could make several mistakes, (this was my first character loop) which would make the final piece a lot less effective. I decided that I will go for simplicity, rather than something too complicated. I could look to build on my first animation and improve on the next few. I continued to create a few ideas, as I planned to create a final character from looking at the positive and negative points from my previous characters.

I drew out a few initial ideas of characters that could roll or slide, as this would be easier to animate. The initial character ideas for this kind of movement were not very interesting, as the they were all either round or long characters with little movement. I then decided that I could make a character move and come in and out the the frame by creating exit/entrance holes for the character to be able move about the frame in a simple way. I thought that a worm would be the best character for this kind of animation; I could make the worm come out of one hole and go into another after making a simple turning movement.