Character writing for animation

Guidelines to Character writing for animation (with help from Malcolm) :

* There should be a Hero. That goes without saying sometimes. He should stop at all small towns on his travels to nowhere and investigate any mysteries along the way. If he lacks in personality and is hard to animate, give him a pair of overalls with a patch on the knee. Kids love it.

* A Girlfriend for the Hero who does little except look good and ruin any escapes by falling down intermittently just before capture or being crushed by a large stone ball armed with a heat seeking device.

* The Hero should also have a Superhero Vehicle, something that is small and compact in size similar to a golf buggy yet able to carry all of his friends and equipment in cartoon fashion. Everyone appears to sit in the back seat which is actually the front seat in reality. Maybe add a surfboard in the back to prove that there will always be room for one more.

* The Hero should also have a sidekick Monkey who has a speech impediment and is afraid of his own shadow. The purpose for this being that if anyone else fails to save our Hero from a last minute death that the Monkey will be available to drive the Superhero Vehicle into the most unreachable location and rescue all.

* The Hero should have a small gang of friends. Preferably a big dumb friend, a small brainy friend and a very cowardly friend. The Big Dumb friend should be so hideously stupid looking that he may be recognised as missing from the local gumboot hospital. His small brainy friend should have a fully equipped nuclear facilitated lab under his parents house. All mysterious noises are to be investigated by the most dimwitted cowardly character who will no doubt lose a torch in a dark tunnel or get lost in a wet paper bag and scream for help.