I want to animate a hamster character. Despite how much I like the little critters, I find them tough to draw. The reason I want an animated hamster is that I figure he is going to be an easy step up from the flour sack character that I and every other animator on the planet has drawn a million times. The closer the hamster is to the flour sack model, the more I like him, but if I expand on the detail level, he gets much more expressive. The more expressive he gets, though, the harder he is to keep on model.