Snowflake animation

What did you learn?

In this project I learned how to render without default settings for the first time in Maya.  To animate this I had to make a wall with a window and snowflakes. I learned how to use the create a polygon tool and the duplicate special command. After spending a large amount of time on creating each individual snowflake and making it look more realistic it was time to create the wall. This was fairly simple to do, all I had to do was create a plane then extrude where I wanted the window to be and make it transparent. After this I had to begin rendering. Rendering without default settings for the first time was pretty easy to do all I had to do was change it to a jpeg and change the end time to 240. Other than that the rest was already done for me through the program. After rendering, which went really quick surprisingly, I took this project into aftereffects to animate it. The first time I tried to animate it I messed something up so I had to start this part over which was no big deal.

What would I do the same/change?

For this project I think I keep that I was able to get it done in a normal amount of time. I payed attention to the directions very closely this time and it made the project really easy to do. I would change that I wasted most of my time creating the snowflakes because I got to perfectionist.