Reflection on Emotion Animation

Over the course of this animation I have encountered many problems and many successes. I have had many times where Maya has not done what I wanted it to do and spent much time dealing with that fact. Also many other technical problems with movie maker and what not, and I have rendered the animation incorrectly a few times. All in all these have taken up a lot of time, so in the future I will work harder to prevent these or budgeted more time for these errors, whether they be technical or on my part. In general I feel like I had a solid idea and my animation conveyed the base of it, but there were still some major things that I could have done to greatly improve my animation. Ultimately my flaw was that I picked up a concept that required lots of events and a lot of technical skills that needed to be executed very well. There are simpler concepts that would still be just as powerful that I probably should have tried to do. Rather I got stuck with this one idea that I really liked, and didn't want to give it up and spend the effort on coming up with something different. The total quality was alright, also  color did not get a lot of time so it is pretty simple. The basic idea is there but I need to work on controlling my ideas and getting something down in time rather than spending too much time on the wrong things.

Emotion: Awe : Various Screen Shots

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