Our characters

For our program, we decided upon having two main characters, both humanoid animals, as to make it easier to understand and to follow the pattern of many popular children's shows. We chose to use a panda and a rabbit which are both quite favourable among younger children as favourite animals and they are both able to have distinctly different personalities.

Our panda went through a couple of name changes, but all starting with a "T" so it was able to alliterate with our rabbit's name which we came up with first. We started with the name Tae which is a traditional Korean name, but after finding out it had an unsavoury meaning in another language we decided against using it. After a couple of odd suggestions, we fell on the name Terry which seemed to fit him well. We also had the idea to make our panda the more active and bright of the pair as to try and help with a subliminal message of not judging a person's character based on stereotypes.


Our rabbit's names choosing process was much simpler, however. Her name, Twitchy, stems from the idea that as a  rabbits nose twitches often and among the most popular names for pet rabbits are those that describe a rabbit, for example, Smudge if the rabbit has darker spots, Flopsey if the rabbit has floppy ears or Snowball if the rabbit is white. We also chose to make her the more tired of the pair which goes against the idea that most cartoons involving rabbits usually follow: that the rabbit is the happiest and most energetic. We did this to follow the same subliminal message as for Terry's personality.