I just finished about a week's work of reanimating Clyde the duck violently waking up to Percival yelling. I was underwhelmed by his first take. The first attempt wasn't dynamic enough, didn't convey the extreme reaction I was looking for. So I animated it again, and this time I had him stay up in the air and flap his wings through to the end of the shot. Lastly I add a camera shake. I liked it much better!
As I was was finishing up the in-betweens I happened to look at the first take, which I hadn't seen in a week. It's perfectly good. As a matter of fact, I love it. There was really no reason to redo it, except to add a camera shake.
I might be able to use some of the 2nd take in a later shot. But not much. Good thing I don't have a deadline.
Lesson: Walk away from it for a week next time.
