"Getting a project DONE is probably one of the greatest accomplishments any animator can achieve. " That's actually a very good point. Right now I'm working on a "Director's Cut" version of my Renderosity Holiday Animation. I got it "done" for the contest but I spent a number of days fighting with the environment (I finally ended up just having my characters in a space-like unearthly world). I struggled with that so much that I didn't have time to do some of the other things it needed. It was "done" but not "Done." With soooooo many possibilities for everything, it can take one person forever to get everything exactly right (if there even is such a thing). That's one of the reasons I appreciate some of the animations I've seen here. It may have lighting that could be improved, movement that is painfully slow, poor audio, or any one of a number of other things lacking, but I highly respect the tenacity it takes to make a complete animated story or sequence. FWIW, using style to accomodate technical issues (as nemirc mentioned) is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. In fact, sometimes it makes the animation a lot cooler.

Before they made me they broke the mold!
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