Vampire Pixel in the Neon City project summary

Over the past three months, I've been developing an animation for my narrative project. With the project now as complete as I can get it within the time restraints, I'm taking some time to reflect on the things I've learned over the course of its creation. First and foremost, I was way over ambitious with this project, whether it be overconfidence, or competitiveness, or sheerly poor judgement, I can't say for sure, but now at hand in, I have what I feel is a pretty patchy project. The pacing is pretty slow in places, and in others too fast due to me having to cut a lot of content to fit in the time. Because of this, a lot of the story details are poorly communicated or not even present at all, which disrupts the whole animation. I feel I spent too long focusing on the art and not enough on the final execution, and as such have created a mediocre product as far as structure goes. The time limit was a large issue when creating the animation, any thoughts of outgoing shots would be replaces with something more deadline friendly, and due to the sheer length of the video, deadline friendly meant quick and easy. I did spend a lot of time on this animation, and have been pretty unfair to my own well being, but somehow I still have it in my head that I should have spent more time on it, and I feel a sense of failure with the final piece, even though a large number of hours have been poured into its creation. I do however, wish to rectify the problems I have with this animation and create a full version for the internet, making use of other people's talents to fill in any holes I have, for example in sound design. On the positive side of my project, I'm fairly happy with the art style I've moved into, and enjoy the feel and theme of the video, I just need to work on things aside from the visuals. Even though the animation wasn't 100% finished, I'm happy with the amount I managed to make in three months, to say this included rewrites and concept designs. Overall, I've just learned the consequences of overambition.