Character designs:
With the cartoon characters we had to design I thought of doing a middle aged trade unionist and a young manager. I remember watching the news on the deliveroo driver strikes in london and thought about doing characters around those issues or workers rights and entrepreneurialism.
When watching the demonstration of the driver I noticed that the boss who tried to get them back to work was this young bloke who looked like one of those posh youngsters wearing a rugby shirt and gelled back hair. I based the manager character around this and people like Mark Zuckerberg.
He's one of these spoilt youngsters with a trust fund and never worked a day in his life. He has the "Sod them I'm alright Jack" mentality. When his behaviour finally earns him a striking workforce he can't fathom the idea that he was at fault and continues the belief that it's just the workers being entitled. I feel that these points are shown through his design. His snobbishness is shown through his gigantic nose and flashy hair. He constantly has his head turned up and a line of action that makes his belly point forward, making looking at something below him (physically) hard.
The Trade unionist character I had more sympathy for. When designing him I based him around my granddad; a middle aged union man whose worked his whole life. 
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