Early on, this "Mussolini" character on the right was to be the "Corporate bad guy". After the overall design changes, he too, was sheduled to change. He also supposed to get more angular, just like some other protagonists, but at first, I settled just with some angularity of his suit. However, I beleive his head was the last one that remained to be produced, so I kinda squizzed some angularity into it's othervise rounded appearance, as seen on this drawing (above left). I made that head almost at the very end of the shooting, so I didn't bother too much with the concept. It was beacause it turned out that I manage to use this "angular" approach only occasionally throughout the film, but it was fine enough for me to get some feel of it. Unfortunately or not, a sticker to details as I am, I hate that I didn't get the proportions quite right, so his head turned out somewhat bigger than on this drawing I was so pleased about. But, otherwise, perhaps it's a good mistake. Drawing aside, I managed to animate this character's double chin, and in the process find out a way to animate his mouth in a rather simple way, way simpler than usual.

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