Feline Dream
Overall, this video had a really positive reception. People tended to say that it is really cute (which is is, because Ruby is adorable).
Someone said that she felt like she was getting to know my cat throughout the semester, which I thought was pretty funny. Someone else said that they could see this being used as a television commercial for cat treats. A couple people pointed out that they liked the addition of the fish bones toy, which is something I was actually curious about, so I was glad to hear that it turned out to be a good idea.
When I was viewing the video on the QuickTime player, it pauses at the end instead of just cutting to black right away like the Photobucket hosted video does. I really dislike it abruptly cutting away from the end scene, so I should probably either host it somewhere else or make the ending frame have a longer duration than the other slides.
Overall, I was pleased with this project. My own nitpick is that when the treats are entering the container at the end of the video, I wish I had captured more frames where the treats are actually on the lip of the container like I did in the beginning, because it doesn't always look the most like they're traveling up into it.
In Your Closet...
This project also had a positive overall reception. One of the parts that was the hardest to draw and work with was when the tentacle grabs and closes the door. I was worried that it didn't look like it was grasping the handle and pulling the door shut. However, I didn't mention this before the video, and the first comments I got were about how realistic the part where it grabs the door looks. This shocked me, but it was a very pleasant surprise.
A criticism it got was that it should have stayed darker for a bit longer before the tentacle came in. This was actually my intention, but I guess I didn't select a long enough time for the frame before it enters the scene. I agreed with this though when I viewed it in class, and I think I would have noticed this beforehand if the playback was working properly on my computer. Thankfully, that's an easy fix to make.
Someone also suggested that I could have the door say "Slam!" when it closes, to repeat the "Click!" element with the night light and to maintain the cartoonish feeling. I'm not sure how I feel about this, but I do find it to be an interesting idea.
I would also probably slow down the progression from light into darkness in addition to the duration of the darkness frame in order to create a more gradual introduction, and it seems so abrupt and happens before you're ready for it when you click play on a web page, compared to a video viewer where it already starts on the first frame.
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