[PERSONAL] The Second Character

I am in two minds with who I want my second character to be, one part of me wants the second character to be a representation of myself; a young animator just starting out in the business and the second part of me wants the second character to be a representation of the older generation; a talented older gentleman who continues to use a light-box even now.  

Young Animator

I feel like a young animator might be a good match up in my practice, this is because it'll be a nice switch from the older animation style to the newer model based young character. I feel like it could be a nice match in having a young animator draw something on a light box, perhaps for the first time, and then it comes alive and runs from paper to paper, there could be a comedy aspect in how the young animator reacts.

I might draw the young animator with the cartoon character and see how they look together. I feel like it could be a nice match up. However, I am leaning towards the possibility of the older man as I don't feel like I can get a point across of the older generation of animators being less lazy as animators due to the fact that they used a light-box to capture each individual frame, but I will see what happens with the characters nonetheless.

Older Animator

I find older people more interesting to draw personally, old men have very specific look and build to them. I feel like using an old man to interact with the cartoon character could be very interesting, however, would the older man treat the cartoon like a son? Or would he be annoyed at the cartoons bouncy personality?

I think I would prefer the second character to be an older man, I feel like it'd be a lot more likely that an old animator would choose to use a light box to create characters rather than a younger person. Plus I think it could be interesting to have a sort of double act with the two characters, a young animation and a older person.

I will try and draw some old man character tests and see what they look like, maybe having him interact with the cartoon character to see how they'll look together.