Trial/Test Animation

When it came to doing our own personal animation of our choice before we could do it we had to do a test animation. This didn't have to be long as it was only used to test whether our animation would be able to succeed. I used my character 'Oopee'and did a simple test of it jumping up and down. I used claymation for the test animation. I made it appear like it was jumping by squishing and stretching the body of my character. The benefit of this was that once I had taken all the pictures to show it could jump I could just loop the jump to make it jump as many times as I want. In my test animation I did not do this but it's always an idea for the future.
Because I had done claymation before I didn't gain any new skills, however I learnt how to make writing look like its being written on my animation. The good thing was that since the technique was not new I could do this without any problems.
A strength of my animation would be its smooth when it jumps. A weakness would be that it's too short and I could of changed that by looping the jump.
If I had to redo this I would loop the movement and take more pictures of the writing so its smoother.