In the process of planning and creating my animation many ideas were discarded for multiple reasons.
The main thing I departed from was my original character.
The reason for this was that although my test animation was a success, when it came to using that character in my real animation I encountered difficulties. I didn't consider that what I wanted to do in my final animation was different to that in my test animation. Different shapes and movements tested my character until the point where it was no longer like it's original form. With me realising that it wasn't going well I began to lose my patience and quickly discarded it.
I then realised I had to come up with another idea, with a storyline that allowed the character to do everything needed. Previously when I did my test shoot after completing it, in my spare time I made another character because I thought it looked cool and I had time. Remembering this my cool looking character 'Ralph' came into use as I decided to use his super hero look to fit a super hero situation. I thought about it carefully this time and established that what I needed to do was going to work.
Even though I departed from my plans I found that my final animation far exceeded the original idea and that it was more beneficial for me to make a mistake and learn from it.
