More Designs, A Practice Background, and An Animatic

I've changed up the old man character's design (I've been calling him a wizard, but he doesn't look much like a wizard. Maybe an alchemist? Weird eccentric old man?). Here's some revised designs:

Also, as an exercise in modeling backgrounds, I modeled a still from the movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which has a similar feel to what I'm going for.

And, finally, the most recent animatic.