My Own Character Designs

Just incase I was unable to use the original character designs from the book I looked at designing my own characters for the film.

First I looked at other pirate films for inspiration.
Pirates Of The Caribbean 

Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists

Peter Pan's Hook

Hook film

Once Upon A Time's Hook

As a first thought I liked the idea of having the captain and the crew all as mice.
I looked at other films that have had mice in them for inspiration.

Cinderella

Dumbo

Stuart Little

Pinky And The Brain

Danger Mouse

Sketches of mice

As my film is going to be for children I want to make the character designs simple. This is will also make the modelling of the character easier and more suitable for stop motion.

Something similar to this, but depending on which character in the story I use this for, because for the Captain I want to use more triangle shapes to give him an edgy, scary feel. And for the rest of the crew circle body shapes to show they are more submissive and aren't as dangerous as the Captain.