Tiny Planets

As part of work for one of my modules this semester we've been asked to design and animate our own tiny planet, it can be anything: rocky, gaseous, marshmallow....just so long as it's about you. The only thing we've been told we need is a character to represent ourselves and a dwelling. So here's some concept art to start off.

UPDATE:

More of the character design, I'm going with the working name of Ferret but really it isn't supposed to be any particular animal.

A quick sketch of the character for the Tiny Planet, I've done several pages of sketches in a sketch pad that I may scan in later. For now a possible final design.

An aerial view from space of my 'planet'.

First off a quick design for my dwelling, a rondavel. The final product will probably be more stylised but this is just to kick things off.

Some more sketches for possible designs. I'm leaning towards the squat, wide, sort of shape but the ones on stilts are fairly interesting.