Telling tales - my final half

I've completed my half of the animation, overall I'm pleased with it. I think it tells the story and I can't wait to combine it with Ciara's half. 

There are a few things that would had made it better, like for the brothers legs to move, but that was down to me really not understanding how to rig etc (both in the tutorial character and this character). I did however enjoy the process up to that, of creating the mesh and colouring him, I understood that fully and more so when I came creating my character. 

I was disapointed that the sky images i created hasn't renderd out in my half. but the dark sky still looks good with the lights (stars) Ciara put it. However I hope there it's a noticeable change when we put the two halfs together. 

I want to add text at the end, either 'round 2' or some credits, as there is nothing in the stall for them to play, and i think some text to cover that area might make that less noticable, as the audience would be reading the text.

I also enjoyed animating, and I think working for reference videos is extreemly important. it's important to get the pose correct, the timing correct, so that it flows nicely. I liked it because it's a lot like stop motion where you have a 3d character to work with and can simple drag it into place, something you can't do with stop motion however is play around with the key frames by going back, tweaking it a bit, spaceing out the key frames, previewing it there and then. So some aspects of it I really enjoyed doing, but sitting at the computer majority of the time, wasn't for me, maybe I didn't take enough breaks sometimes, so I prefer stop motion in that sense that it doesn't make me feel ill.

But over all, I learnt so much and felt like I know Maya a lot better as it scared me at first. In the work place I know I'd purely be creating the mesh or animating, as that's what I preferred to do the most.