How to create a Despicable Me Minion!

I recently found a tutorial on how to re-create the Dispicable Me minion using Photoshop and Illustrator!
While scrolling through this acrticle, I realized how difficult an animator's job can be. They need to plan out every little detail of thier character and once they are done planning, they need to create it on the computer.

The first outlines look somewhat like this:

Before is is put into Photoshop, this is the final Illustrator outline:

When you bring the image into Photoshop, the details and colours are finalized. All of these steps are very complicated if you want your minion to look exactly as the actual one. 

Basic colours: 

Here are some shots of the layer properties (ie. drop shadows, gradients, etc.)

If you're still interested, click here for the full tutorial!