Woot and grats! I think you quite likely dodged a bullet by not going into the film industry. Having lots of creative control designing and building characters should be Big Fun compared to spending weeks modelling a characters foot that someone else designed.
Ahh, so it ended up as this one, eh, Daz? Sounds like a fun gig - here's hoping it turns out as well as it possibly can for you... remember the dream of 6 boats and a private army of mooks... never let it out of your grasp!