Telling Tales: Animating and Render Testing

In order to have something to show for our final crit, I decided to do some simple animation and a render test to get a feel for what to expect when animating in Maya and to see how the background would look when rendered. 

Although it's not much, it gave me an idea of how the character would look in the environment and how easy and simple it is to animate in Maya. This has given me a huge boost in motivation, as I feel more confident now that I am animating. I am also really pleased with how the character looks within the environment, and I feel that it works really well and produces a nice clean finish. I am now officially ready to start animating (wooooo!).