Where To Start?

I was all ready to begin. I had my original character and sound clip at hand, and it was time to start drawing......

But then I started to think... My characters a Blob! How am I going to build this in to a puppet for stop motion? What's he going to be made of? How's he going to move? And then .... 

So I began drawing some blobby characters :)

After the development I came to a decision of how I wanted him to look!

So you might be thinking 'Why has he got a scarf?'... but if your not.... I'm still going to tell you why he's got one.

When seeing the final design, I thought to myself,

 'What a nightmare he's going to be to clay up and mould' 

 (F.Y.I. I decided that I wanted him made of entirely silicone!)

Therefore to make things easier for me at a later stage, I thought I would separate the head and body in to 2 different sections and mould them separately! 

But why the scarf? 

The scarf would be used to hide the seam line, of where the head and body met! Very similar to how Aardman did their chickens on 'Chicken Run'! Genius!