Feedback on characters

Today i had a meeting with Jim to show the initial character ideas i had for the old hoover character, futuristic hoover character and dust mites.

OLD HOOVER CHARACTER-FEEDBACK/DEVELOPMENT:
My initial sketches for the old hoover character was for him to have glasses and a mustache. The bag attached to the hoover was to act as the lungs and contract and expand to give the impression of wheezing, i also had the idea of having the character to cough out dust.

After discussing this character with Jim he had told me that he didn't want the hoover to have the human features, the hoover will be a mechanical character. I am now thinking of characteristics such as lights, beams and steam would be more suitable.
Jim has an old hoover that he wishes to base the character on, so i will use that as a template to create the character, it has a light on the front of the hoover so this could be substitute for the characters eye, it could flicker to give the sense of old age?


DUST MITE CHARACTERS-FEEDBACK DEVELOPMENT:
Jim liked some of the characters i created for the dust mites, the very first one i create were cute and happy but looking more closely at dust mites under the microscope they appear to have amour on there bodies which gave me the idea of making them quite sinister or have the colony as an army. However after more discussion on this, we reviewed the story again and made a decision that we need to sympathize with the dust mites as the Dyson hoover will be playing the role of the 'bad guy'.


DYSON HOOVER CHARACTER-FEEDBACK DEVELOPMENT:
Like the decisions made with the old hoover character not to have facial features, this is what we intend to do with this character, we spoke about having beams of light, dot matrix and possibly steam come out of the character.