Character Design (revision)

 Gizmo the Robot/Alarm Clock

Turn Around

Expression sheet(s)

Construction sheet

Story (revision)

In a world where objects come to life when the humans sleep, the evil dust bunnies that reside and hide under the bed of Jack's room plan to drain the life energy of Jack to take over the world. Jack is peacefully sleeping after a late night study session until the digital clock hits 7 o' clock and begins ringing. Jack's day needs to begin, or he will be late for the test he studied so hard for. Jack springs up, but his body felt week, and resists Jack's attempts to get up. Jack continues his struggles to get up, and after multiple attempts, and landing in different awkward poses, falls back into slumber, and falls into an even deeper sleep that before. 

Seeing Jack's struggle, the inanimate objects around his room start coming to life. The alarm clock, Gear, whose main duty is to wake Jack up every morning to start his day begins to hop closer towards Jack, and rings his alarm again. The alarm rings normally at first, but is unsuccessful. Gear opens up the hatch on the top face of his cube body, and reveals a giant horn, and blows. The volume steadily gets louder and louder, shaking the entire room. Despite the constant efforts of the clock. Jack is still sound asleep in a twisted position. The alarm clock gets serious, and begins his transformation revealing his true form, and starts physically waking up Jack. Even after all the slaps to the face, and physical abuse, Jack is still asleep, now bruised. Gear wonders why Jack wasn't waking up as it has never happened before. 

He closes his eyes to think and concentrate, and hears a sound coming from under the blanket that is covering Jack's body. Gear lifts up the blanket, and discovered two dust bunnies sucking the life force out of Jack's chest. This is the reason why Jack has been getting weaker and weaker, and unable to get up. The dust bunnies look up, and immediately pounce towards Gear. Gear transforms his left arm into a sharp blade, and defends himself from his attackers. Jack swiftly slashes his two enemies in two, and immediately, Jack is once again conscience, although only slightly. Realizing that he needs to get rid of the problem from the source to wake up Jack, he hops off the bed, and lands on the floor.

He moves the blanket covering the entrance to the dust bunnies' lair, and carefully walks in. Inside, it is revealed just how many dust bunnies had accumulated under Jack's bed. The dust bunnies look up towards the light of the outside world that Gear had revealed, and see the intruder. A few dust bunnies quickly assault Gear, and are instantly defeated and immobilized. Realizing that Gear was an opponent that they could not defeat alone, they combined their bodies, and formed a giant, menacing looking dust bunny. Gear looks back in horror, but then a great idea forms in his head, and begins to run towards his enormous enemy. Running and dodging the giant dust bunny's aerial projectiles, Gear opens the compartment on the chest of his body, and takes out his weapon of choice, a vacuum cleaner. When Gear got into vacuuming range, he turned it on to its highest setting, and the giant dust bunny began to get sucked into the tiny vacuum cleaner. As soon as the dust bunny was completely sucked up and defeated, Jack immediately wakes up, and realizes just how late he was.

Jack quickly gets dressed, grabs his backpack, and runs out of his room. Gear comes out from under the bed, and covered in dust from his previous battle. The objects around the room celebrate the victory that was just achieved, and dance and party until Jack comes back from school.

Character Development (revision)

Gear

new character development due to the story

Backstory

In the near distant future, around the 22nd century, technology has slowly continued to continue to become more and more technologically advanced. Technicians and inventors continued to develop technology to the point that even the smallest and most common household appliances and everyday use items had basic functions such as GPS, voice activation, applications, etc. instilled into them. Unknown by the humans that use these items on a daily basis, these every day items had each individually grown and developed their own individual intelligence, and own personality. The technicians that programed the code into these every day items had an intention to make these items more intelligent, to become more helpful towards mankind. However, they did not know that the code would learn to develop and continue to grow on its own without any further manual programing. Due to every objects individual personalities, these objects become split over their purpose in life. One side has become tired of serving mankind, and want to overtake the humans who use them, and dispose of them as soon as a newer model comes out or becomes useless. The opposite of them enjoy servicing the humans that use them, and protect the humans from threats. This little war is unknown and unseen by human eyes because these objects depend on humans as much as humans depend on them. Only when the humans are sleeping do they get to come to life. This is due to the dominant energy humans produce when sleeping that fuel the objects around the room. The evil objects are trying to find a way to keep humans in a suspended state so they can freely move around whenever they want. Gear is a small, portable, digital clock that inhabits Jack (a human) C.'s room. He is a slightly older model, and is very knowledgeable of the situation, and a very reliable tool to Jack waking him up on time for many years. Gear acts as the leader of the good alliance in Jack's room, and protects Jack from any treats that resides in the room. Gear has a somewhat split personality where he is normally a friendly and fun-loving character, however, he knows when it is time to get serious. When a battle arises, he has a slightly more serious personality showing a more reliable side towards his friends, who trust in him completely.

Attributes

friendly (+)

fun-loving (+)

cheerful (+)

lucky (+)

optimistic (+)

comical (+)

mischievous (-)

leader (+)

dependable (+)

reliable (+)

responsible (+)

loyal (+)

trustworthy (+)

charming (+)

brave (+)

fearless (+)

calm (+)

determined (+)

creative (+)

persuasive (+)

wise (+)

sly (-)

stubborn(-)

 Short Story

Driving past the speed limit down the roads of an urban Los Angeles, Gear quickly stomps on the breaks as he is abruptly stopped by a toll booth. The car makes a loud screeching noise as it gets closer and closer towards the toll booth. The car stops right before the booth where it asks for fifty cents. Gear opens a compartment on his mechanical body, and reaches for his wallet. He takes it out only to find out it's completely empty besides a few pieces of lint. He checks his dashboard where there is usually spare change sitting around and remembers, he gave that money away just a few days ago. In a panic, he freaks out and screams, "WHY ME?! What did I do deserve this?!" as he slams his head over and over on the steering wheel to his car giving off a honk each time. Calming down, his head still laying on the steering wheel, he slowly lifts up his head revealing a serious look on his face. His brows are lowered as he realizes that this was a serious problem that he has to face right now. He slowly steps out of his car, his left leg first, then the right, and has a direct confrontation with the toll booth. He calmly speaks, "please let me through, I don't have any money, but I have urgent matters on the other side." The toll booth doing its job, gets straight to the point, and replies, "NO." Still in his serious mood, he continues to plead the toll booth to let it through. With each plead, the toll booth becomes more and more persuaded to let him through as it feels the sincerity and urgency in his voice. The toll booth feels a jolt in its circuits, and slowly raises the toll booth to let his get to the other side. Gear is overjoyed, and goes back to his usual friendly self. He hugs the toll booth, saying "thank you," knowing he has made another friend and ally that day. The toll booth's hardware starts heating up due to a reaction from Gear's charm and tells him shyly, "hurry up and get on the other side, this is a one time thing." Gear nods and says good bye, and gets back into his car and drives off towards his destination.