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as previously stated. The design of both characters are very much the exact same, with only the difference being the colour palettes. Now what i suggested was to change characters designs a bit more, nothing too drastic that it changes the original idea of your character. but also adding some barely noticeable spikes does not change much, as when you are animating the characters, viewers will not notice that difference, same with the bowtie. Now, just because i gave an example such as a bowtie, bracelet and such does not mean that that is what you need to do, I implore you venture forth out of your comfort zone, and make clothings, design some clothings for your character. As for character design itself, like i’ve stated, different heads, better visuals. Currently they are the same television heads, which doesn’t do much. Besides, you changing the angles of the Antenna also doesn’t do much for a stark difference.
Here’s what i’ll say. Download an app, mostly for drawing and such. Screenshot your character desgin, and then draw some clothings for them in there. That’s what i’ve done for many of my characters after i’ve done doing their base figure. It helps a lot, as it gives you a clear visual as to how it will go, without you having to imagine it. The first two pictures you see, are examples of what i mean by this.

Now, for your second character, I went and made a twenty minute doodle of how you can change the aspect of your character in general, make her stand out without looking like a copy paste of the original. (of course, the doodle is not the best, as i wasn’t going to put too much effort on it. As you can see proportions are rather odd)

Use shapes to make your characters, As you can see, the one i made uses squares, this one was to show a more femenine character, considering the sharp wide angles, and narrower torso. For the male character, Make it blocky, or less narrow, in other words, make it resemble a masculine character. That way, audience can actually tell apart from the two.

Honestly. This is the best i can do, I mostly do visuals rather then typing. You’ve got to figure out the rest on your own chief, use pinterest, youtube, anything that can help you. Watch tutorials, and just do a lot of trial and error. Find the visuals you desire and just go for it.

Best of luck on your future endeavours. I will now go kill myself as I am tired.

P.s. here’s what I meant about the suggestion with the whole, animated comic and such (280 frames, 20fps, no tween. Poorly made because I was rushing it as I was doing it on top of my actual studies.)

https://streamable.com/y8mg6y