Plan for Richard Van Stone

This is the animation I did for my demo reel and I think it has a rather interesting story behind it. I spent a year working on the original version of this demo reel and was almost done a month before it was due. However, right as I was getting ready to render everything out to final output my computer crashed and I lost everything. Horrible no? Well not really, the same thing happened at the end of my associates program and I lost everything for real. This time I was smarter and as I finished a chunk of the project I made sure to save it to cd. What I forgot to take into consideration was that during the span of two months my school took us from Maya 4.0 to 4.5 to 5.0 so when I went to reintegrate everything....things just didn't all work right. They had made so many little modifications to things, that certain portions of the project didn't work anymore, or worked incorrectly. Oiy what a mess so I had to redo the entire year's worth of work in 2 weeks. I had to cut out a lot, and there's several errors in the animation...but I think it still came out pretty durn good for redoing that beast in two weeks. The disco floor alone has 72 lights and I had to animate each of them manually. Let me know what you guys think.

My Demo Reel