A confusing tale

Okay, so I contacted another tutor about my ideas and work and he actually thinks that my original character sticks to the brief more and looks good artistically. His advice was to focus on the magnetic for movement which I really like. He suggested doing something other than legs. I really want to learn how to rig legs properly though as it's an important part of animation in Maya. I also think they look good. I'm thinking I will keep their appearance how they are BUT make him walk magnetically. So he must stick out his leg and it is pulled to the magnetic field. Therefore, his way of movement is not what you would originally expect.

Material: Old Tin Can
Movement: Magnetic
Meaning: Camera

This is what I'm thinking so far. I've brought camera back into my idea as I think a good meaning for him would be to capture important moments and memories.

I spent hours trying to sketch and plan a woodland/metal type of creature. Way too difficult, my brain was just frozen. Everything I could think of would be far too complicated to model in Maya and also take a long rendering time.
Here are some sketches and notes to prove I did stress and freak out over it:
(So yes, it's a big relief I may be able to stick to my original concept which I really like. I still want to combine Steven's really good advice though s I can see his point)

So in Conclusion: It's very confusing when tutors are giving you completely opposite opinions. One telling me to almost scrap my idea while the other says it's actually more fitted to the brief. As re-sketching my concept wasn't working for me and I didn't feel confident with the new idea I will stick to my original concept and improve it.

The Plan

• Rough first sketch of my storyboard (18 scene minimum) 
• Edit and improve it
• Scan in computer
• Redraw nicely in Photoshop - including colour ect. (Hopefully I get time for this)
• Begin to model my character
  
  After this, all that is left:
•  3x Images/sketches of character in motion
• Paragraph describing the origin of the character and personality.
•  3x Sketches, renders or photographs of character’s environment.
• Turntable animation of modelled and textured character. (15 seconds maximum)
  
  And I already have the Orthographic (side, front) images/sketches of character, which is one thing done, phew.