I’m a work in progress, and I want to always be learning about animation, no matter how far I advance in my career. May I always have a student’s eyes and heart! In the spirit of that, I decided to polish a shot that I am fond of from a 2018 Animation Collaborative class. At the time, I felt that I had a good story and clear acting, but it needed body mechanics polish and much more attention to the facial animation. I decided that I wanted to keep this shot in my demo reel, so I beefed up the exaggeration, the facial animation, the polish, and reworked some of the mechanics. The end result is something that I feel is much more refined, more true to the meaning of the shot!