3rd year 2D animation delevepment

I've just finished my 3rd year short film (yeahhhh) hope you guys and gyals enjoy

here's a few screenshots of the animation, I'm almost at the end of finishing my short film i'll be posting that up online within a few days.

i put the final version of my character onto some of the finished backgrounds to show how the final animation will look when its finished.

here some of the backgrounds for my film:

here are my concept sketches to try and find a villan or nemesis for my character, i've tried to go for a variety of different villans possible im going to try narrow it down and pick my bad guy/monster.
After picking my character i've added the turn arounds/colour

I've been looking at the specific style that cartoon network uses on such cartoons as dexter and deedee, powerpuff girls etc, i've done a series of boy characters that i've created to help me narrow down the specific type of character i want.
here's my designs:

i previously done quick sketches of my young boy character but that was only to define the proportions of what the character will look like in the future, bascially i was tryning to get an idea of how it might look.
I've been doing research on a french artist that works in anime style and im going to try and develop my character into he's style or show some sort of conversion between my character and he's style.

Heres the artists works

here's my sketch, outline, and quick colour of the character i did in illustrator, this is only for experimental purposes in the search to find a specific style i will use for my animation:

here's the thumbnails of my story, the plot has changed slightly with the kid playing a game then getting told off by he's mum to do he's homework but its pretty much the same concept to before.

ok after careful consideration i've changed my idea once more and finalised it by taking out bits and pieces of the story that were unnecesary and that would become time consuming for me.
so my story starts of with my character (a young boy) who is grounded for not doing he's homework and is told to finish he's work by he's mother, Rather then doing what he's told he's dozes off to play games just like all kids while he plays along the letters and maths sums from he's homework book start to crawl out of he's book and gradually become a monster created by equations and words.

The monster starts to chase him around he's room and as the chase pursues the boy slips and falls which allows the monster to catch up to him, Just as the monster reaches to grab him, the boy yells out an multipication sum which blows off 1 of the monsters arms.
The boy then realizes that by giving answers to maths problems and doing addition he can defeat the monster, so one after another he throws maths sums at the monster which eventually obiliterates the monster.
the boy realizes that if he actually put he's mind to it from the start he could have done he's homework with ease.

The message im trying to give is "Knowledge is power"

Thumbnails to be posted soon