Character suggestions for James of James and the Giant Peach

The house of the White Rabbit 

Merry Christmas! 

Just some waiters...

Mister Horremus enjoyed performing pointless tasks on a daily basis which underlined in his opinion the utter meaninglessness of life itself. One summer he decided to count leaves in a nearby forest and tried to give each tree a name that started with the letter 'F'. In the following winter he felt that shovelling snow around those trees he hadn't named yet was the right thing to do, as in the summer he had quickly run out of names starting with an 'F' and now, in the cold of winter, felt guilt towards those nameless trees. 

Life had a meaning after all.

The Cheshire Cat's Revenge: 

a simple test animation I did where the character was drawn on paper

and then imported into After Effects; 

it was a bit too tedious as a technique...