Thief.
Come on... don't steal someone else's popular character, especially if you aren't going to do anything GOOD with it. "This was not intended to be a rip-off in any way..." Then what was it intended to be exactly? oh ya: "this was mainly an experiment that we expanded and just had fun with the character...we plan on making more animations with the style of character " So... you plan on stealing that character and doing more stuff with him. That's a pretty lousy way to get votes. And a pretty lousy way to become an animator. Just come up with your own stinking character and THEN do some crappy experiments. Then it can just be bad animation, without the humiliation of stealing someone's character and making it look like poo. I'm sorry to be so rough, but please don't use Wink again. He deserves much better. Keep animating though, practice makes perfect.