Submitted!!

Today we managed to resize our animation after asking around a bit. A techie guy told Aggie to use media encoder but it was taking quite a while and it wasn't really great quality anymore so i asked Mat in my tutorial and he said theres a much simpler way and our animation definitely shouldn't be that big! Turns out theres a quite easy way in after effects. Apparently the amount of kbps was waaaaay to high causing our animation to have a massive file size so we limited that to 10,000kbps which means its 10mb per second. This retained the quality while giving us a file under 200mb.
Both Mat and Annabeth looked at our animation and they both really liked it but wanted us to tweak a couple of things as they thought that would up our animations value by a lot! They said put some motion blur on some things that are moving fast. Which made it look so cool! and there was a bit of cleaning up to do on the smoke that i had moved with the puppet tool but i didn't know how. There was a really easy way! Annabeth just told us to click a button i pretty sure it was in opacity and it just magically disappeared! Very clever stuff. She also has a keen eye for editing and realised that there was a flash where the bulbs went back to just bulbs with nothing growing out of them so we changed that.
It was definitely worth putting in the extra work because now it looks even better!! 
Submission time!! Now we could finally submit our work. It was a very exciting and scary thing to know that we were entering a very big competition and people have said we might actually have a chance of winning. The video uploaded fine, then we went to upload the pdfs and they were too big! so Aggie used a compressor on her laptop. Then we just had to pay and that was it! 

It was such a good feeling to know that its all over and done with now and we are very happy with what we produced. I personally feel its the most professional thing i have produced to date. I honestly believe it would not look half as good if i didn't collaborate with Aggie because her illustrations are amazing and she was great to work with! Definitely glad i responded to her email!
Unfortunately as the rules state on the brief I am not allowed to upload our finished animation online until the winners have been announced, although i really want the world to see it!!!